Pages: 1525-1529
Sunil Kumar (Department of Psychology, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan)
U. K. Sinha (Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Human Behavior & Allied Sciences, Delhi)

The purpose of the study is to know the psychological disturbances in children and adolescents involved in rag-picking. The sample consisted 250 children and adolescents which is selected from the community of rag-pickers in East Delhi, Near- Seemapuri. Developmental Psychopathology check list has been used to assess the state of mind of children in different areas and to know the emotional and behavioral problems of children. Highest scores of mean 8.05 which indicates that most of the children are suffering from developmental problems and stressful life also find the correlation between emotional and behavioral problems and self- esteem of children. Most of the variables are found high self -esteem of children in general self with development a psychopathology.

Pages: 1535-1538
H. K. Chhabra and Nidhi Barthwal (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

Mindfulness refers to being aware of and attentive to the momentary occurrence of events both internally and externally by calmly observing and attending to one's thoughts, sensations and feeling at the present moment (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Yildirim & Dark, 2018). It is the state of attentiveness in which an individual becomes conscious of the present moment (Good et al., 2015). Dual-tasking is explained as the process of executing two tasks at the same time (Pashler, 2000). Multitasking refers to the shifts in attention that place the person's focus on a different tasks (Biemann & Kearney, 2010). The objective of the study was to observe the differences between mindfulness groups with regard to their performance under different task conditions. The sample comprised of 100 girl students in the age range of 15-18yrs (Mean age-16.5). ANOVA revealed interesting interplay between mindfulness and the different tasks conditions.

Pages: 1543-1546
Girijesh K. Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and Mahatam Mishra (ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat)

This study was conducted to assess the anxiety among diamond workers with respect to their job task. Three hundred forty-two diamond workers have been enrolled from Ahmedabad, Gujarat ranging between 18 to 60 years belonging to five different job tasks - Ghattarasi (n=37), Table cutting (n=35), Talia bottom (n=123), Athpel (n=78) and Mathala (n=69). Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) has been used to assess the level of anxiety among diamond workers. Results showed a moderate level of anxiety (M=11.69, SD=6.5) among diamond workers. One-way ANOVA revealed no significant difference in anxiety scores across different job tasks except Ghattarasi workers. Ghattarasi workers did not show the presence of anxiety. Hence, the level of anxiety among diamond workers has not been significantly influenced by their job task a part from Ghattarasi workers.

Pages: 1550-1555
Shivalik Yadav (Department of Psychology, Dronacharya Govt. College, Gurugram, Haryana)

During the past few decades, a considerable number of research attempts have been made to study the nature of Type-A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and its relationship with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), stress and certain personality dispositions. Although attempts have been made to find relationship between TABP and personality traits, a number of well - established dimensions have been ignored completely. The present study is an effort in this direction with the objective to examine the relationship of TABP with normal and pathological dimensions. A total of 150 male subjects were drawn randomly from the teaching departments of KUK and they were given Clinical Analysis Questionnaire and Jenkins activity Survey (Form-C). These two tests provided scores on 31 variables in total. The scores on all 31 measures were subjected to required statistical analysis, viz., Mean, Standard Deviation, Skewness, Kurtosis, Correlation and Principal Component Factor Analysis. Principal Component Factor Analysis yielded ten factors with Eigen value greater than 1.00. The study has found that Type A Behavior correlated significantly with normal personality dimensions of G (Super Ego Strength), H-(Shyness) and M (Imaginative) , and pathological dimensions of D4-(High Anxious Depression) PS (High General Psychosis). Speed and Impatience Scale of Jenkins Activity Survey has correlated significantly with normal personality dimensions N-(Artlessness), Q3-(Low Self Sentiment Integration) and Q4 (High Ergic Tension), and pathological dimensions of D1 (High Hypochondriasis), D4 (High Anxious Depression), etc.

Pages: 1562-1564
Atreyo Mondal and Savitesh Kushwaha (Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi)

To observe rural-urban differences in somatometric parameters among the migrated Poundra caste population. A cross sectional study method was conducted with the total of 251 adults (148 rural &103 migrated urban both males & females) were taken from the Poundra population. Somatometric measurements like height, weight and BMI were considered for this present study. From the findings of the present study it can be concluded that there is a significant differences of height and weight between males and females. It is observed that the values for urban male weight and BMI parameters are significantly greater when compared with rural females and when compared with urban female and rural female the weight and BMI parameters were found to be greater in urban females. With the age wise differences the weight and height was found to be significantly different in female category. The changes in economic conditions, dietary intakes, physical activity and lifestyles, which may be responsible for increase in weight as well as BMI among urban individuals.

Pages: 1570-1573
Poonam (Clinical Psychologist, Shanti Mission Hospital Hisar, Haryana)
Rohtash (Clinical Psychologist, District Hospital Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pardesh)
Krishan Kumar (Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh)

Having parents with mental illness negatively affects children's social, psychological, and physical health than children are whose parents not having any mental illness. Researches also show a greater rate of behavioral, developmental, and emotional problems in these children when compared with the general population. Families who are having apparent with mental illness are at enlarged risk of financial crisis, housing problems, family interruption, decline of social and leisure activities, interference of children's schooling and segregation because of parent's mental illness. Children who are having parents with mental illness feel lonely, anxious about their parent health or feel they need more extra time or effort to take care of parents. The stigma for mental illness in the society also affects the lifestyle and mental health of children's who are having parents with mental illness. The present study was planned to assess the behavioral problems in the children of parents with schizophrenia and to compare with general population. A sample of 60 parents of children from 5 to 15 years was selected for the present study. In which 30 parents were fulfilling the criteria for schizophrenia and 30 children of healthy parents who meet inclusion and exclusion criteria of study. General Health Questionnaire-12 and Childhood psychopathology measurement schedule were used for evaluation. There is significant difference has been observed in the score of Childhood Psychopathology Measurement Schedule on the domains- conduct disorder, anxiety disorder, and depression disorder, psychotic and special symptoms in both the groups. Overall findings suggest that there are more behavioral problems in children of parents with schizophrenia as compare to general population. The study finding depicts there being an association between child behavioral problems and parental mental illness.

Pages: 1580-1583
K. Kinjari and C.N. Ram Gopal (Department of Counseling Psychology, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu)
Asha Latha Mathew (Department of Psychology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu)

Prosocial behavior is an act which places others before the self where the individual is motivated to help another being and expects nothing in return. In the contemporary world, one form of prosocial behavior that is altruism is rare to be seen. Altruism or selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others. At present, the mortality rate is on a rise which could be because of many reasons among which bystander effect could be a major contributing factor. This created an interest for the researchers to study the relationship between the Big Five Personality traits and Altruism. For this purpose data has been collected from 73 young adults, using the convenience sampling method. It was found that all of the Big five personality traits except for extraversion was found to be related to Altruism and there was no gender difference among the variables except neuroticism.

Pages: 1594-1599
Aanshika Puri, Kritika Mohan, and Neelam Panday (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh)

The young minds of today are seen to have multiple behavioural issues which weren't so rampant in the past. Most of these problems in the daily lives of adolescents are said to be due to lack of empathetic skills and a definitive absence of being grateful for the resources they have. As psychologists, we make an attempt at enhancing empathy and gratitude among adolescents to inculcate pro-social behaviour. Empathy involves understanding, perceiving the situation from another person's perspective and these two together are essential traits in order to comprehend pro-social behavior. Gratitude is feeling thankful of what one has and feeling optimistic about what life has offered. Pro-social behavior is a voluntary behaviour to benefit others. The main objective of this study was to under stand the effect of empathy and gratitude on pro-social behaviour among Indian adolescents. The sample for the said study had 120 adolescents within the age bracket of 15-17 years. 60 out of these belonged to a nuclear family and 60 were from joint families. The tools used were Empathy Situational Test, GQ-6 and PTM-R. Scoring and statistical analysis followed and it was found that there is a significant effect of gratitude and empathy on pro-social behaviour. The results also showed that gender had a significant difference where males scored higher than females and there was no significant difference in terms of family type as a predictor of pro-social behaviour in the current study. The study emphasizes on further work in this topic and a strong need for the counsellors in schools and parents to take part in effective utilization of resources and improving positive behaviours in children.

Pages: 1605-1608
Anwesa Bandyopadhyay and Ushri Banerjee (Department of Applied Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The purpose of the study is to assess whether there is a relation between personality, social adjustment and social desirability of young adults who post their selfie on social media. The individuals who frequently take and post selfie on social media and individuals who comparatively take and post less selfie on social media were also compared on the above-mentioned dimensions. A total sample of 120includes subjects of both sex who post their selfie on social media, educated upto at least secondary level, age range of 16-30 years, from urban Kolkata using purposive sampling method. All the participants were administered NEO five factor inventory, Social Adjustment Inventory and Marlow Crown Social Desirability Scale to assess their personality, social adjustment and social desirability respectively. The result showed that there is a high correlation between agreeableness and social adjustment and there is a significant difference between individuals who frequently take and post selfie on social media and individuals who comparatively take and post less selfie on social media with respect to their extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and social adjustment.

Pages: 1614-1617
Prabhjyot Kour and Pallavi Sachdeva (Department of Psychology, University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir)

Resilience can be defined as an ability which helps the individuals to cope with the difficult situations effectively. Suicide ideation can be defined as the intention, desire to kill oneself. Suicide ideation comprised of suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior, suicidal attempts, and committing suicide. It is common among youngsters to have suicidal thoughts. The aim of the present study is to find out the resilience and suicide ideation among male and female students studying in Govt. degree colleges of Jammu. Convenience sampling technique was used to collect the data. The data for this study was collected from 200 college students, 100 are the males and other 100 are the females. The statistical techniques applied for the data analysis is t-test and pears on product moment correlation. Results revealed significant gender difference and significant correlation in resilience and suicide ideation among male and female colleges students. Empirical evidences suggest that females have higher resilience whereas male are found to have lower resilience, whereas on the scale of suicide ideation females have higher suicide ideation than males. Results would be helpful in fostering resilience among college students. There must be psychologists available in the colleges, so they can help the students in nurturing a positive view for themselves. Psychologists can figure out the problems of the students and find a way to resolve them. Psychologists can encourage mindfulness practice, resilience training programs, relaxation therapies so that it will strengthen and reorganizes the brain of students in adversities.

Pages: 1626-1631
Tarannum Mohan (Department of Management, Punjabi University Regional Centre for Information Technology & Management, Mohali, Punjab)

Despite a large variety of technological channels offered by the banks there are only limited takers for it. Most of the customers are either apprehensive to use it or do not want to use it. Security and privacy have been one major concern. However, making the customer adopt or switch over from branch transactions to self-service technology is a major challenge for the banks. This reduces the cost for the banks and saves it from setting up huge infrastructure. With the growth of self-service technologies, it has become imperative to focus on research in this area and shift focus from inter-personal to technology interface especially in banking. Banks have invested heavily in these electronic channels but only ATM has picked up. Other channels like Internet banking, mobile banking and tele-banking are yet to pick up. This paper examines the factors responsible for customers' behavioral intentions to use banking self-service technologies like ATM, Mobile banking and Internet banking besides branch banking. Multiple regression model was used to identify these factors. Behavioral intentions was taken as a dependent variable while trust, the ease of use, convenience, social norms, attitude, satisfaction, compatibility, facilitating conditions, behavioral control and usefulness as explanatory variables. A comparison of Public and Private sector banks has been done. The study reveals that customers' behavioral intentions have a positive effect on adoption. In case of Internet banking, Social Norms and trust are common significant contributors of behavioral intentions.

Pages: 1637-1641
Mohd Muzahir Ali and Rana Rafi Khan (Department of Education, Al-Falah University, Dhauj, Faridabad, Haryana)

The study was intended to investigate aspects related with future prospects influencing the choice for English medium school. Data was collected with the help of a self-developed scale. Reliability of the scale is 0.738 (Cronbach's Alpha). 900 respondents of class 6th to 8th standard from the nine English medium schools selected from the various parts of Delhi constituted the sample of the study. Factor analysis and chi square tests were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed a higher level of agreement among students for various aspects related to future that influence the choice for English medium school. School's ability to shape the future of students is major factor to influence the choice for English Medium School.

Pages: 1646-1650
G. S. Sunaina, Sahen Gupta, and K. Sreenath (Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka)

The capacity to adapt to stress and maintain a positive attitude towards life is necessary for HIV infected adolescents since unhealthy coping with stress leads to mental health issues as well as a rapid deterioration of physical health. As such, resilience is crucial to the prolonged well-being of HIV infected individuals since it fosters better coping with stress. This study aimed to understand the relationship between Resilience and Well-being among HIV infected adolescents, and included boys and girls of the age group 13-18 years (n-46). The sample of adolescents were chosen since development of resilience at this age sets a pattern of better response to stress and greater well-being across the life span. The tools used for this study are Subjective Well-being Inventory (Sell & Nagpal, 1992) and Resilience scale for Children and Adolescents (Prince-Embury, 2008). Descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation and Independent Sample t-test were used for testing stated hypothesis. Results state that there exists no relationship between the variables Subjective Well-being and Resilience among HIV infected adolescents. It should also be noted that there exists no differences in subjective well-being, in terms of high and low resilience amongst the sample. It is thus recommended that, future research and interventions should take into regard the paradoxical relationship between well-being and resilience operating in individuals with HIV infection.