IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review is an indexed and refereed journal published monthly by the Indian Association of Health, Research, and Welfare (IAHRW). IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review likely aims to promote interdisciplinary research in social sciences by providing a platform for scholars, academicians, and professionals. Its primary objectives include fostering discussions on contemporary social issues, policy-making, and human development while encouraging evidence-based research in sociology, psychology, political science, economics, and cultural studies. The journal focuses on areas such as social behavior, education, governance, gender studies, mental health, and societal well-being. Its goals include publishing high-quality research, supporting academic discourse, and contributing to knowledge that influences social policies and community development. IAHRW IJSSR is a peer-reviewed journal, and the papers are published after a review process by the review panel of the journal. This journal has been published regularly since 2013. For more details write to us at iahrw2019@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief: Sunil Saini, PhD, President Indian Association of Health, Research and Welfare (IAHRW)
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CHIEF EDITOR
Sunil Saini, PhD
Indian Association of Health Research and Welfare, Hisar, Haryana, India
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Rankoana Sejabaledi Agnes, PhD, University of Limpopo, South Africa
Sakhile Manyathi, PhD, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
EDITORS
Dr. Arun Kumar Jaiswal, PhD
Department of Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4430-6063
Dr. C. R. Darolia, PhD
Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3282-2733
Dr. Damanjit Sandhu, PhD
Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala
ORCID ID: ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8368-0133
Dr. Rekha Sapra, PhD
Department of Human Development and Family Empowerment, University of Delhi
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7610-3549
Dr. Sangeeta Trama, PhD
Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-9257-8722
Dr. Shashi Darolia
Department of Psychology, IIHS, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
ORCID: 0009-0001-7761-3441
Dr. Waheeda Khan, PhD
Former Dean and Head, Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurugram
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4384-7047
Dr. Jaspreet Kaur, PhD, Punjabi University Patiala
Dr. Ritesh Kumar Singh, PhD, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi
Dr. Radhy Shyam, PhD, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana
Dr. Sandeep Singh, PhD, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana
Dr. Sunita Malhotra, PhD, Former Dean, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana
Reviewer’s Pannel (2025-2026)
2. Prof. Arun Kumari Jaiswal, Former Prof. Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi
3. Prof. Sangeeta Trama, Punjabi University, Patiala
4. Prof. Annalakshmi Narayanan, Bharhityar University
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Pages: 515-518 Increased competition, changing business environment, globalization and the advancement of Information and Communication Technology are the important factors that have forced banking and financial services to change. Development in Information and Technology have given rise to innovations in the product and services designing and their supply in all sphere specially in the banking sector, finance, industries, customer services and satisfaction are their centre point of all the efforts. With the time one of the most important concept of e-banking has got attention in the Indian context. Although most of the banks have already implemented the e-banking facilities, as these facilities are beneficial to both i.e banks as well as consumers, yet banks are facing many challenges and many opportunities available with them .In the years to come, e-banking not only be acceptable mode of banking but will be preferred mode of banking and with networking and inter connection new problems are taking place related to security, privacy and confidentiality to e-banking transactions. This paper is a exploratory study which analyzes the factors influencing the adopt in and less usu age of e- banking services. The result of the study indicated that easily accessibility and convenient to use (68.6%)are the major factors for adoption of e- banking while lack of computer knowledge was one of the predominant reason for less usage of e- banking |
Pages: 519-521 Library is a place where huge amount of data is kept for the use of existing and budding users in print and non-print form. Shera writes 'The library is a product of our cultural maturation'. After inventing the nascent technologies, the production of data in digital form is being done like a jet speed, but to select the relevant from the countless databases for concerned library is the main challenge in front of the libraries. The prime objective of the library is to impart the relevant information to its end users with minimum possible time. It has been observed by many studies that libraries are a research discovery platform that provides unlimited access to the most comprehensive and authoritative source of desired information of different disciplines like science, humanities, commerce, medical or science & technology. Latest research activities cannot be imagined without library services and online databases. |
Pages: 522-524 Life goals are cognitive representations of what is most wanted in one's life and every human behavior is guided, motivated, directed, and made meaningful by one's future goals. Life goals play a major role in an individual's life, especially for youth as most of their thoughts and actions are focused on their future goals. The content of life goals varies across individuals and among the various types of life goals; researchers have highly recognized the importance of autonomous and intrinsic life goals. Pursuing goals which are intrinsically rewarding, fits one's personal interest and autonomous results in well-being and optimal living. With the help of theoretical and empirical studies, the present research attempted to provide an overview of the conceptualization of autonomous and intrinsic life goals and the positive outcomes of such life goals. It further indicates the need for more empirical attention, implementation in various settings, and future possibilities in guiding the youth to have the right type of life goals and live the best possible life with special reference to Indian context. |
Pages: 525-528 The propagation of diversity and expansion of globalization has led to multiculturalism and migrants may move temporarily or permanently, trans-nationally or nationally, individually or in groups, return to their countries of origin or migrate to another country, or move between two countries in a circular motion. The process of cultural and psychological change which occurs as the result of interaction of different cultures leads to changes in the original cultures or host culture or both of the cultures is termed as acculturation. Hence, bicultural identity is experienced by people and it will likely to increase in the nearby future. Biculturalism entails an identity when a person has established two cultural identities and is capable to alternate between two cultural identities- host culture and national culture. The paper will review psychological aspects of biculturalism. |
Pages: 529-531 It is quite clear from the archaeological excavations that the agriculture and animal husbandry went together. Even the pre-Harappan levels of Kalibangan in western Rajasthan, had domesticated cattle. India was also regarded as the home of Mung and mash. In the vedic and post-Vedic period mash enriched the Indian diet, cookery and religious ceremonies to great extent. It is thought that rice, which is the most extensively cultivated crop in the world and which serves as the staple food for the largest population these days, had its cultivation originated in India, Burma or Indo-China. India had 4000 varieties of rice. Eastern India, was, and is, the true home of rice. Thus the major achievements of the Neolithic revolution was the discovery of agriculture, horticulture, vegetation and animal husbandry. Furthermore, the Vedic literature indicates that the cultivators in the Vedic period possessed a fair knowledge of the fertility of land, selection and treatment of seeds, seasons of sowing and harvesting, rotation and other cultural practices of crops, manuring for increase of production of crops and the like. Jaittiriva Samhita mentions that rice would be sown in summer and pulses in winter on the same field. During the Buddhist period people retained their interest in agriculture. The usefulness of cattle was also fully realised by the people. The evolution of gardening is intimately associated with Buddhist temples and monasteries. The Mauryan period also, laid great stress on the promotion of agriculture, forest produces, pasture lands, cows, horses and elephants. |
Pages: 532-534 We all have heard of metaphors, also used a few of them in our lives. But have we ever wondered, they can actually help us present our state of mind. Yes, exactly the metaphors that we use in our daily lives are just another form of stating our thoughts. Over a period of time, psychologists all over the world are gaining a lot of interest in them; and are trying to use them in the therapeutic process, to alter one's (clients) thoughts. Through this review paper, I will bring to light a few advancements in psychotherapy using metaphors. |
Pages: 535-540 Marital conflicts have harmful effects on mental, physical, and family well being, and three decades of research have shown the behaviours that differentiate happy and unhappy couples. Review of this work shows that the singular emphasis on issues and challenges in marital results has given an inadequate image of its role in marriage. In recent years, researchers have tried to give a more detailed image of marital conflict by in dept study of the married couples childhood, families and attributes, probing conflict areas in the situations that provoke issues and challenges to handling those situations with maturity of emotional intelligence and life skills of the couples in their given environment. Every marriage comes with its own wonderful benefits offering life satisfaction, physical and mental health and well being, and also with marital issues and challenges. These challenges can bring in stress and strain in the married couples, as the couples work through them it might result either into a break through resulting a stronger marital bond or their marriage can break down. This complete depends on how the married couple handles the challenges marriage offers. Working on the marital issues and challenges in a harmonious and healthy manner can be very difficult as source of stress and problems in a marriage emerge from varied sources. Basis of marital issues begin when the couples argue rather than communicating. Communication is the key to stronger marital bond giving them harmonious happy marriage. Clear, compassionate and effective communication, balances emotions and wards off arguments. Healthy and harmonious communication comes with emotional intelligence and life skills. Love isn't a state of being, it's a state of doing, by adding random acts of warmth, spark and passion into the marriage. |
Pages: 541-546 Mental image refers to any form of mental representation of stimulus that maintains its properties in the absence of that physical stimulation. A mental image resembles perceptual experiences of stimulus but is different from them because, in contrast to perception, the formation of an image does not require the physical presence of the imagined object. Imagery is a mental stimulation that involves long-term memory recall of previously experienced information and combining them into meaningful units. Imagery facilitates recall and plays a significant role in problem solving and creativity. Besides, it augments sensory-motor skills by allowing people to mentally rehearse critical skills and activities.This article reviews some key investigations carried out in this field and ends with some suggestions regarding directions which imagery research might take. This review is neither comprehensive nor does it claims to include all the researches that are being carried out in this area at a relatively rapid pace. Rather, it is intended to present a sample of some significant investigations that have impacted the theory and practice of imagery researches and to provide a direction for further studies in this area. |
Pages: 547-550 पत्रकारों की सामाजिक-आर्थिक स्थिति विषय शोध इसलिए आवश्यक है कि वर्तमान समय में किसी भी कार्य से जुड़ने से पहले आर्थिक स्थिति में ढ़लना पहली माँग होती है। क्योंकि मंहगाई की दौड़ में पत्रकार का अपने कार्य से संतुष्टता व कर्तव्यो के प्रति कितना जागरूक है। इत्यादि कुछ ऐसे प्रश्न हे। जो कहीं न कहीं पत्रकार को भी सोचने पर मजबूर करते हैं। ऐसे में पत्रकारिता के लिए ऐसे लोगांे की जरूरत होती है जो पत्रकारिता के पेशे की प्रस्तुति जो मुल्य से भलीभांति परिचीत है। इस श्शोध के लिये प्रश्नावली विधि का प्रयोग किया गया है। शोध में पाया गया कि वर्तमान में पत्रकारों की शै़क्षणिक स्थिति ठीक है। तथा अधिकतर पत्रकार अपने वेतन व सरकार की तरफ से मिलने वाली सुविधाओं से संतुष्ठ नही है। |
Pages: 551-554 The present paper attempts to explore into the matters of over-emphasis on women's purity and chastity and converting them into national honor at the backdrop of India-Pakistan Partition in 1947. India- Pakistan Partition in 1947 was not just a broad political negotiation but had widespread implications on the masses. Almost every sphere of life was impacted by this shift and transfer but women became significant and also 'problematic' during the process (Butalia, 1998). The present paper tries to understand these negotiations by analyzing three texts - Rajinder Singh Bedi's short story Laajwanti (1995) Kaili, a character from Amrita Pritam's Kaili, Kamini, and Anita (2009 edition) and a movie 'Pinjar' based Amrita Pritam's work, directed by (Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, 2003). |
Pages: 555-557 Impoverishment is the state or process of being impoverished. What causes this awful and growing impoverishment of the Indian people? Said John Bright, “If a country be found possessing a most fertile soil, and capable of bearing every variety of production, and, notwithstanding, the people are in a state of extreme destitution and suffering, the chances are there is some fundamental error in the government of that country.” The present paper reviews different factors of impoverishment of India. |
Pages: 93-97 The aim of the research is to compare the coping resources of counseling and non-counseling centre clients using the Coping Resources Inventory by Hammer and Marting (1983). It was administered on 96 college going students: 48 counseling seeking and 48 normal individuals. Coping resource inventory classify cognitive, social, emotional, spiritual/philosophical and physical resources that are currently available to individuals for managing stress. The scores are interpreted and discussed with two profile, that is, ipsative profile in which it was inferred that the participant scored highest on the emotional coping resource (35.2- 46.8) indicating that she is more likely to use this resource in order to deal with harsh or stressful situations, and the normative profile to compare the coping resources of counseling and non-counseling centre clients. It was found that Cognitive t(94) 7.0876, p<0.0001, Social t(94) = 9.2974, p<0.0001, Emotional t(94)= 6.1020, p<0.0001 and Spiritual t(94) = 3.3543, p<0.0001 were statistically significant. However, no significant difference was found on Physical Resources t (94) = 1.9430, p<0.0550. This reveals that both the groups utilize all the coping resources, except the Physical Resources, to deal with everyday stress and problems. Also, the scores of Indian and American counseling seeking individuals were compared. The results showed that the Indian group scored higher on the Cognitive, Spiritual and Physical coping resources as compared to the American group. |
Pages: 98-102 Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for children within which children acquire a wide range of skills, attitudes, and experiences that influence their adaptation across the life span. Educational research has begun to explore the impact of children's sense of belonging in their classrooms and schools. Feelings of relatedness tapped by measures of school climate and quality of school relationships, have been linked to important academic outcome indices including academic achievement, academic self-efficacy, and school grades. This review paper explores the links between peer relations and school adjustment and subsequent academic achievement, with a special focus on the school adjustment and academic achievement of children as moderated by peer acceptance categorizations, i.e., popular, rejected, neglected, or victimized. |
Pages: 103-106 The aim of this study was find out if there is a significant relationship between cyber pornography consumption and loneliness. Data was collected from a sample of 300 adolescent pupils using two scales UCLA loneliness scale and Cyber Pornography Use Inventory (CPUI). Pearson Product Moment Correlation method was used to analyze the data. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant relationship between consumption of cyber pornography and loneliness among adolescent pupils. |
Pages: 107-109 Although empowering women seems to be the manifesto of every political or elective organization as well as its echo can also be seen as a major challenge of societal development and welfare of women who represent mark able space in every sector of life span. There is variety of schemes and plans which aims to bring reforms and changes towards women development. Despite of the fact, the sizable chunk of difference between women's actual state or self evaluation and their capacity of taking challenges can be noted which sometimes become more prevalent as a result of negative outcomes began to occur. Therefore, present study attempts to investigate the role of psychological empowerment of women in context of different type of organization where they work. |
Pages: 110-112 The period of adolescence is marked by storm and stress. Most of the adolescent behaviour is influenced by the family, teachers, peers and environmental conditions. Adolescence stage of our life is very important as it faces so many changes. All changes affect students ability to perform in their study. The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of gender and social support on adjustment of adolescent students. This study was conducted on 500 adolescents (250 boys & 250 girls) studying 11th and 12th standards from different college of Varanasi city. Data were collected by P.G.I Social Support Scale and Adjustment Inventory, Vyaktitva Parakh Prashnavali. Mean, S.D. and F-test was used for the analysis of data. The results reported that significant difference was found between boys and girls students. In other words, we can say that boys are significantly better adjusted than girls. Gender has significant impact on adjustment of adolescent. Result further shows no significant impact of social support on adjustment. |
Pages: 113-115 Intelligence is the base of mental capacity, a set of abilities which help a person to learn, and perform accurately. Still there is category of children named 'Learning Disability' who have average or above average level of intelligence, but they cannot perform their tasks as quickly and accurately as others can do. The present study is an in depth study of reviews where researchers compared various personality traits, anxiety expressions and adjustment levels of learning disabled children in comparison to non impaired children. There have been researches from decades which found a significant difference in the self-concept, aggressiveness, anxiety levels (Margalit & Zak, 1984; Rodriguez & Routh, 1989) autonomy (Margalit & Shulman, 1986) and academic achievement of learning disabled children as compare to non-impaired children. Rani (1865) compared the personality traits of children with learning disabilities and normal school going children; and found that the personality profile of children with learning disability was significantly different from the normal children. There are studies that show contradicting results too. The present study deeply analyzed and discussed the work of various researchers who have worked on personality traits, anxiety and adjustment of learning disabled children. |
Pages: 116-119 The present study is aimed at reviewing the phenomenon of hate crimes. The mental profile of perpetrators as well as the methodology of carrying out hate crimes is analysed and reviewed. Consistent patterns of troubled psyches of perpetrators are characterized by factors such as antisocial behavior as well as high levels of aggression. A huge deficit in cultural knowledge has been shown to lead to cultural bias and a higher incidence of hate crime-based violence. The study employs review of existing literature as its methodology. Results indicate a strong correlation between cultural ignorance, stereotypes and hate crimes. Childhood abuse and parenting troubles have also been shown to correlate strongly with psychological concerns in hate crime culprits. Interventions in the form of promotion of national values such as the right to free speech, as well as coming into direct contact with lesser-understood cultures greatly helps in reducing misconceptions and subsequently, in reducing hate crimes; as well as the course of future researches are appraised. |
Pages: 120-123 The purpose of this study was to examine machiavellianism and aggression among higher secondary school students. A sample of 174 higher secondary school students was selected randomly from various government and private schools of Ludhiana districts. The data was collected using hindi version of Mach IV scale by Rai and Gupta (1987) and aggression scale by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2004). The statistical techniques' such as descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way Annova and post-hoc test was used. The result highlighted that there was no significant mean difference in gender but significant mean difference was seen in family structure and streams in relation to Machiavellianism. Further also, there was no significant mean difference found in gender, family structure and streams in aggression but positive and significant correlation was found between Machiavellianism and aggression among higher secondary school students. |
Pages: 124-127 The burnout can defined as a reaction against chronic stress and the responding to pressures of work or organization. The main objective of this study is the concept of the causes and the effect relationship between two variables the organizational and the institutional silence on the phenomenon of the burnout among the managers and employees that are working in electricity distribution company Ahwaz. Because the burnout effects on all aspects of the people organizational life and reduce the operation and the quality of the people. This research is conducted among the employees and the managers of electricity distribution Ahwaz. To select the required sample is used of the census sampling and the statistical methods such as the standard deviation, the regression and the Pierson correlation coefficient. In this research is used of the Maslach burnout inventory questionnaire and the Denison's organizational culture questionnaire and the akvla's organizational silence. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by using the cronbache's alpha coefficient that is satisfactory and acceptable. The results also show that there are significant relationships between the burnout and the Denison's organizational culture and the vakval's organizational silence. Also the organizational silence has a direct relationship with the burnout and has a inverse relationship with the Denison's organizational culture. This means that with the increase of silence in system, the organizational culture is reduced and the burnout is increased. It is worth noting that the relationship is directing between the organizational culture and the burnout. So that the burnout is increased by increasing the organizational culture and the burnout is reduced by reducing the organizational culture. |
Pages: 128-134 This paper highlights the role of family communication in adolescent risk-taking. Family communication is defined as the act of making information, ideas, thoughts and feelings known among members of a family unit. Family communication can range from poor to very effective. How family members communicate their thoughts and feelings, particularly at times when they are attempting to resolve a stressful problem or assist one another in achieving personal goals, is important in adolescents' ability to cope with stressful situations and their likelihood of involvement in health behaviours and risk taking. Parent-child communication is an effective way of reducing unhealthy behaviors in adolescents. Children who do not receive warmth or care from their parents and who have disturbed communication patterns are more likely to have lower self-esteem, academic problems, and emotional troubles. They are also more likely to indulge in various kinds of health risk behaviors for example, drug use, eating disorders and participation in risky sexual behaviors. Thus, family communication is viewed as a strong predictor of adolescents' involvement in health risk behaviours. |
Pages: 135-139 The study examined the relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being among adolescents. The sample size taken was 250 (125 boys & 125 girls).Statistical analysis included Pearson Product Moment correlation method using SPSS. The results revealed that mindfulness is significantly and positively correlated with subjective well-being. |
Pages: 140-144 Present study aimed to review the studies and research on classroom environment. Studies related to classroom environment were searched for different dimensions of classroom environment from 1980 onwards. A total of 30 studies concerning classroom environment were considered for the present research paper. In this study an attempt is made to survey the earlier works done in India and abroad. This study provides a review of the literature on classroom environment and will help to the researchers for further research work regarding classroom environment. |
Pages: 145-147 The present paper aims to explore the concept of reciprocal altruism and it's interrelatedness with psychological Will power.it further aims to explore and highlight the implications of psychological will power on military Psychology. This paper also underscores the relevant concepts and implications from psychology research perspective. finally this paper emphasize the need for further research in this area of military Psychology. |
Pages: 148-153 The present study was conducted to explore the link between emotional intelligence and personality. It also examined the relationship of basic socio-demographic data with personality and emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is a concept of huge importance in terms of understanding the emotional aspect of people and for enhancing their self-awareness, work life, and social relations. The study was conducted on the sample of 60 adults (37 Females & 23 Males) within the age range of 21 to 56 years. Data was collected using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers & Myers, 1998) and Emotional Intelligence Test (Chadha & Singh, 2001). The statistical analysis used were the coefficient of correlation and student's t-test. The results indicated that T-F (Thinking-Feeling) dichotomy had a significant correlation with Emotional Sensitivity and Emotional Intelligence; E-I (Extraversion-Introversion) dichotomy had a significant correlation with Emotional Competency. Results also showed a significant relationship of age with S-N (Sensing-Intuition) dichotomy and Emotional Maturity. Gender differences were found to be non-significant in personality and emotional intelligence. Detailed results and their implications have been discussed in the paper. |
