Pages: 2109-2112
Jacob Islary (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Teaches Social Work, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam)
Shagun Saklani Pandey (Social Work Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Freelance Researcher Based, Mumbai)

This paper presents social work practice methods of Social Casework and Social Group Work as means of strengthening resilience in families and individuals that in turn lead to resilient society. Understanding resilience as an ability to bounce back and maintain positive adaptation by individuals despite experiences of significant adversity, a discourse is made that Social Casework and Social Group Work while understanding family from a systems perspective could also consider social psychology perspective in intervening to strengthen family resilience. The discourse in this paper has been developed out of review of literature and experiences from the field. The study highlights that while family is a system with sub-system having interplay of dynamics and varied roles and functions; it has also to be understood from social psychology perspective which involves actions, attitudes, feelings and perceptions. Social work methods like social casework and social group work that are concerned with transactions among persons, family and environment and with a wide range of strategies for assessment and intervention can strengthen family resilience.

Pages: 2116-2121
Suravi Sahu and Chandrashree Lenka (P.G. Department of Home Science, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla, Odisha)

Intrauterine growth and development is one of the most important process in human life cycle and it is closely associated with birth weight of the newborns. It is also an important predictor of children's future health and later life survival. Life begins in the mother's womb and factors associated with maternal health has a great impact on newborns birth weight .Further maternal health status depend on their socio economic condition, nutritional status and their dietary intake. This is a vicious cycle. The aim of present research is to study the influence of the socio-demographic determinants of mothers on birth weight of newborns in rural areas. For the present study Lakhanpur and Jharsuguda Block of Jharsuguda district of Odisha was selected as study area and purposive sampling method was followed . 300 women in third trimester of pregnancy till their delivery were selected from the total population. The findings of the present study indicated that several maternal parameters such as caste, education, monthly income of the family, socio economic class of the mothers were significantly related to risk of delivery and low birth weight of the baby. Even though various steps has been taken by the government and different voluntary organization to tackle the problem of low birth weight of newborns, still the problem is staggering the situation over all the country. Thus educating mothers for changing their behavioral pattern and proper use of health care services along with emphasis on maternal nutrition and health care may be the right solution to reduce the number of low birth weight babies.

Pages: 811-818
Deepak Upadhyaya (Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Tripura University, Agartala, Tripura)

With an objective to understand how the print media in Assam has been covering issues revolving around HIV/AIDS to sensitize the people in general and students in particular, of the impending peril associated with a lack of awareness with regard HIV/AID, a newspaper content analysis study was undertaken by the researcher. Five prominent daily newspapers available in the region were selected for the study. The Times of India, the largest English daily of the country, three newspapers from the regional English press, viz., The Assam Tribune, The Telegraph, and The Sentinel, and one from the vernacular language press-The Asomiya Pratidin were selected for the purpose of the present study. This paper is a summary of the results of the study of the one-year time frame of news stories of the above newspapers. Coverage pattern from 1st January2005 to 31st December 2005 in Assam regarding the dimensions of HIV/AIDS issues revealed what amount of importance was accorded by the print media with respect to its role in the society as an agenda-setter.

Pages: 826-829
Parisa Bahramian (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra)
Alpana Vaidya (Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts and Science and Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra)

Present study explored the relationship between youth problems and suicidal ideation in youth. Researchers have chosen college students in the age group of 18 to 20 years. The sample size was 400 students. The research was conducted in universities and colleges. Samples were collected from students by filling the questionnaire. Results were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation method. Results indicated the positive correlation between youth problems and suicidal ideation. Result showed the significant correlation between four areas in youth problems and suicidal ideation. The four areas are: Family problems, school/college problems, social problems and lastly the personal problems and over sensitivity have positive correlation with suicidal ideation.

Pages: 837-841
Neetu Sarin (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi)

Psychoanalysis and Feminism have been concerned with questions of femininity and sexuality in women. In India, having a daughter is particularly fraught with anxieties of dependence, sexuality and legitimacy of her needs. The unwantedness of a girl child coupled with sexual abuse make the phenomenon of sexuality and selfhood traumatic. Often in cases of childhood sexual abuse (with its subsequent emotional neglect) leads to states of dissociation, frozen self-states (Bromberg, 2001) and a tumultuous relationship with one's body. The body becomes the site at which traumatic memories get enacted. Questions of sexuality become intertwined with questions of existence. Often these women survivors require relational and interpersonal spaces within and outside families where the shame, pain and confusion of the abuse and sexual development can be mentalised. In this paper, the complex weave of care and desire in parenting is examined, where care without an acknowledgments of the sexual parts of the young woman only leads to more oppression and violence. Sexual development without an affective care points towards the psychological poverty of the Indian family. Withdrawal of affection post puberty and emotional distancing from the daughter often become traumatic markers in the life of the young woman. What are the spaces a young daughter can access in India to find a home for her desire? Psychotherapeutic work can be used to create a gender identity and bring into language the unconscious gendered experience. The paper charts the psychological changes and changing familial relationships with a daughter. Sexual abuse and emotional neglect have been mindfully twinned to locate the experience of the young daughter and her psychological place in the family.

Pages: 845-848
Pratibha, Sanjay Bhayana, and Neeraj (National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, HSIIDC, Kundli, Haryana)

Livelihood activities are applied strategy for coping with environmental, economic, social shocks and instrumental in the reduction of poverty. In this study, we have assessed the effect of Self-help Group members livelihood activities on the decision making ability of Bhiwani district of Haryana. It was observed after joining the Self-help Groups by the women respondents have increased their decision making ability due to increasing of self-confidence, self-reliance, enthusiasm and women em-powerments. The maximum respondents were belonging from Schedule Caste (SC) caste (52.2%) followed by Other Backward Caste (OBC) caste. The decision making ability was significantly increased after the joining of SHGs by the women respondents in the field of expenditure of family consumer goods, religious functions, children's education, working outside the home and social aspects areas. The primary data were collected on the bases of simple random sampling for the selection of location and the Self-help Groups selected through convenience sampling. The sample size for this study is 160 women's of different Self-help Groups. The data are analysis through SPSS 20.0 software. ANOVA (Analysis of variance) was used to test the variations among the respondents in relation to participation in the decision-making process.

Pages: 852-857
Geeta Ahirwar, Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari, and Pramod Kumar Rai (Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh)

The basic goal of the study was to understand the role of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness dimensions of Big Five personality in impacting the nature and extent of children's forgiveness. The study chooses three hundred children with equal number of males (M = 10.01, SD = 0.85) and females (M = 10.00, SD = 0.90) with age ranging from 7 years to 11 years. The Big Five Questionnaire-Children (Barbaranelli, Caprara, Rabasca, & Pastorelli, 2003) and forgiveness vignette of children (Goss, 2002) were used to measure personality and forgiveness of the children, respectively. The findings exhibited that the female children significantly achieved higher mean scores on conscientiousness and emotional stability dimensions of personality as compared to the males while no gender differences were observed in the extraversion, agreeableness and openness personality traits. Conversely, the male children showed significantly higher achievement in the mean score of forgiveness as compared to their female counterparts. The extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability dimensions of personality showed significant positive correlations with the scores of forgiveness of the male children while significant as well as non-significant negative correlations were recorded among these scores for the female children. Irrespective of gender, non-significant positive correlations were recorded among these scores for children. Gender and, extraversion and conscientiousness personality dimensions contributed significantly to the scores of forgiveness of children. The study observed a significant role of personality in understanding forgiveness of children. The findings have theoretical and practical implications for researchers, parents, teachers and educational policymakers. Directions for future research and limitations of the study have been presented.

Pages: 863-866
Shubhangni Jain and Nudrat Jahan (Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana)
Dinesh Kataria (Department of Psychiatry, Lady Harding Medical Collage, New Delhi)

Social support is very essential to overcome difficulties of life. Human as social creatures, they prefer to live in groups and help each other. In Maslow's theory need for love and belongingness is an important component. It is associated with human social need such as acceptance by society and making relationships. This is a condition in which chronic underline anxiety and unresolved conflicts are evident in patient such as numbness, paralysis, or seizures. These symptoms have no neurological explanations. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based interventions has been proved as an effective treatment for treatment of conversion disorder. Medicine like sertraline was also recommended to reduce symptom associated with disorder. Aim of current research was to see the 'effect of CBT combined with medicine on social support in conversion disorder patients'. Quasi experimental research design is followed for the study. A sample of 15 female patients with conversion disorder selected from Delhi NCR region. P.G.I. Social Support Questionnaire Nehra, Kulhara, and Verma (1998)were administered on patients suffering from conversion disorder to measure the level of pre and post intervention level of social support. Intervention was provided to them with CBT combined with medicine. On pre and post treatment assessment significant difference is find in social support (t = 4.92; p<.001). CBT combined with medicine improves the social support in Conversion disorder patients.

Pages: 871-873
Pratibha Singh (PG Department of Psychology, Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar)

The Honour killing have assumed dangerous and in-human acts. The term honour killing is a contradictory word, honour means a person or an institution for spreading his or her name and worth before the nation or world. suppose specific community appreciates any cruel activity, in this situation we used to say such practice should not be continued in modern scenario. So how can we add the term honour with the murder or killing. On one hand we talk about women empowerment equal right, growth and bring the millennia to our glorious country and on the other hand we take the initiative of wearing our society with such a heinous crime like honour killing. It Not only the crime but the name itself of the crime that discussed the learn'd and the rational human being of the Indian society. The lose on applies to killing of both males and females in culture that practice it.

Pages: 879-888
Md. Nijairul Islam (Department of Education, Gazole Mahavidyalaya, Malda, West Bengal)

The study tried to understand the relation between multiple intelligences and academic achievement in second language (L2) English among Madhyamik Pariksha (M.P.) passed out class XI standard learners. Sample: 605 learners (male: 298, female: 307, 16+ years old) from 13 co-educational higher secondary schools/madrasah in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. Tools used: i. Multiple Intelligences Test (MIT), and ii. Information Schedule. Findings indicated that out of eight intelligences, high achievers and low achievers under study differed significantly in linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences whereas the two groups did not differ with respect to bodily-kinesthetic and naturalist intelligences. Besides, eight intelligences, as measured with MIT, were not found as correlates of academic achievement in L2 English in case of both the respondent groups.

Pages: 893-897
Sajad Ahmad (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh)
Neetu Saini (National Centre for Disability Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi)

Driving is a complex and dynamic information-processing task which requires coordination of various visual, motor and cognitive abilities (Haring, Ragni, & Konieczny, 2012). For a safe driving, a driver has to constantly update the information of the situations he is driving in, cognitively process, and accordingly act on that information without any delay. The cognitive processes that are required for driving includes attention, WM, visuospatial abilities, visual search and the knowledge associated with the details of vehicle operation. The current study engaged 30 drivers to participate in a naturalistic driving study. This study investigated the correlation between the measures of gaze behavior (in terms of fixation duration, fixation counts, visit duration & visit counts on direction signboards) of drivers and driving performance (in terms of slips & lapses). The paper discusses the role of working memory (WM) processes in distracted driving and the effects thereof on driving performance and gaze behavior of drivers.

Pages: 905-911
Amira Wali and Shazia Manzoor (Department of Social Work, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir)

The unemployment rate in Jammu & Kashmir is higher than the national average and also happens to be highest in North India. Moreover, amongst the gender category wise unemployment rates, there is a sizeable wide margin, female unemployment being on the far upper end (NSSO, 68th Round). This, coupled with the fact that Jammu & Kashmir is a conflict affected state. It thus, becomes imperative to engage the economically active populations of the state in meaningful livelihood pursuits. This paper is an analytical review of the Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY) from a gender perspective using the prescribed International Labour Organisation (ILO) framework. A critical analysis of the policy and associated schemes seeks to establish a disconnect between the policy framework and gender concerns. If gender considerations remain dissociated from employment policy, the unemployment problem will continue to be one of the gravest maladies hindering the development of Kashmir.

Pages: 917-921
Shivangi Gupta (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam)
Chetna Jaiswal (Department of Psychological Sciences, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar)

School education in India is a challenge to policy makers, educators, families, and communities. The quest for establishing services that address school children's mental health needs is now gaining increased momentum . Individuals with higher career aspiration are likely to be hard working for the attainment of their goals which contribute towards higher academic achievement and further it results in high level of self esteem . To study the career aspiration and its relationship with academic achievement and self esteem. To carry out the research, purposive sampling was employed on 100 school adolescents including 50 boys and 50 girls. Pearson's product moment coefficient of correlation was conducted to study the correlation between career aspiration, Self-esteem and Academic achievement. Positive Correlation was found between career aspiration, academic achievement and self esteem, Results indicated that high academic achievement is positively correlated with high career aspiration and self esteem. The level of career aspiration is an expected level of achievement of an individual which is positively related to high academic achievement that together enhances the self esteem of school adolescents. The present study provides useful insight towards the relationship among career aspiration, academic achievement and self esteem. So, to some extent it will help in understanding the role of these factors to combat the challenges of education system.