Dina Naser Tahat

A persistent gap in media and communication research concerns the limited visibility of Arabic-language environmental journalism in comparative scholarship. Climate communication research has devel...

This exploratory mixed-methods study examines self-reported perceptions of marital fidelity, marital infidelity, and digital boundary violations among adults recruited through one private university in the United Arab Emirates. Nationality or citizenship and direct socioeconomic indicators were not collected; participants are therefore described as a UAE university-affiliated sample rather than as Emirati or nationally representative. A quantitatively led design combined 156 complete questionnaires with 11 semi-structured interviews. Marital fidelity received very high endorsement (M = 4.50, SD = 0.47), and its observed association with perceived seriousness of infidelity was positive (r = 0.685, p < 0.001). Primary interpretation is limited to the strongly reliable marital-fidelity indicator and the comparatively better-supported seriousness indicator. Findings involving the three-item digital-infidelity index (alpha = 0.481), the two-item forgiveness/restoration index (alpha = 0.534), and the single boundary-clarity item are reported only as secondary exploratory analyses and are not used to support the principal conclusions. Women showed sample-specific differences on fidelity and seriousness, but no result is interpreted as behavioral or moral superiority. The observed correlation between seriousness and digital-infidelity judgments (r = 0.864) indicates substantial overlap; no correction for attenuation is presented because the dimensionality and error structure of the short indices were not established. Interview findings are reported as counts out of 11 rather than percentages. The findings are sample-bound, attitudinal, and hypothesis-generating.

Objectives: The main goal of the study was to answer the fundamental question of how leading global news websites depicted a non-Western country like Saudi Arabia in their journalistic coverage from January to June 2023. Methods: Drawing upon framing theory, this study employed qualitative content analysis to analyze news texts related to the image of Saudi Arabia. The initial coding began with a literature review to identify the necessary analysis categories for conducting a qualitative content analysis. The analysis was conducted on a purposive sample, covering the period from January to the end of May 2023, with 207 news stories about Saudi Arabia on the websites of CNN and BBC News. Results:. Saudi Arabia was portrayed positively and extensively as a country that supports conflict resolution in the region, cares about the welfare of its society by promoting events and sports activities, and is economically strong in international investment and energy. However, Saudi Arabia was depicted as not respecting human rights and interfering in the affairs of other countries, as reflected in the negative news coverage about Saudi Arabia on the study's websites. Conclusions: This study utilized framing theory and qualitative content analysis to examine how leading news websites framed Saudi Arabia from January to June 2023. While positive narratives emphasized Saudi Arabia's role in conflict resolution, societal welfare, and economic strength, negative narratives highlighted concerns regarding human rights and interference in the affairs of other countries. These results underscore the complexity of media framing and the presentation of diverse perspectives in international journalistic coverage of non-Western countries.