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Item Restricted NAVIGATING BARRIERS: WOMEN'S CAREER ADVANCEMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA POST-VISION 2030(University of Birmingham, 2024-09) Bakadam, Lina; Cai, MinjieThis dissertation investigates the barriers to women’s career advancement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in particular, within the context of economic and social changes driven by Vision 2030. The introduction highlights the importance of understanding these barriers as the Kingdom aims to empower its citizens and diversify the economy. The methodology chapter explains the systematic approach to extracting data, quality assessment, and thematic analysis of current literature, uncovering main themes to understand the career advancement of women. The findings emphasise the persistent challenges women encounter, which include cultural expectations, gender disparity, and a lack of support within the workplace. While there is a gradual improvement to empowerment, women remain challenged by a complex landscape of organisational and societal challenges. The discussion chapter integrates the findings with relevant theoretical frameworks, providing insights into recommendations for future research and practical implications targeting the enhancement of women’s role within Saudi society.21 0Item Restricted Eating disorder psychopathology predicts heart-rate variability under social evaluative stress in female adolescents(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-08-24) Allehyany, Bshaier; Burmester, VictoriaThis study investigated whether eating disorder psychopathology predicts increased vulnerability to social evaluative stress in female adolescents (mean age = 14.64 years) and whether social anxiety disorder symptoms amplified this relationship. Twenty-two females answered eating disorder and social anxiety psychopathology questionnaires and underwent a modified sing-a-song test to provoke social evaluative stress, while their heart-rate variability was recorded. We extracted mean heart-rate variability intervals for the sing-a-song stress test, and evaluated whether eating disorder psychopathology predicts heart-rate variability using a linear regression model with moderation analysis. Results indicated that higher eating disorder psychopathology predicted lower heart-rate variability (β = -4.082; p =.003) and that only high symptoms of social anxiety intensified this relationship (β =.2973, p =.0001). We demonstrate that subthreshold eating disorder psychopathology may explain increased reactivity to social evaluation in female adolescents, and that social anxiety symptoms may facilitate this relationship. Future work should account for subthreshold eating disorder symptoms when investigating the stress response in female adolescents. As well, possible mechanisms underlying the associations between subthreshold eating disorder symptoms and social stress need to be investigated, such as body image anxiety and fear of weight gain.20 0