Pages: 9-11
G. Balaji (University College of Education, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana)

The present study carried out the objectives was to find out the difference between boys and girls in their study habits, to find out the difference between government and private students in their study habits, to find out the difference between boys and girls in their achievement, to find out the difference between government and private students in their achievement, to find out the relationship between study habits and achievement in secondary level students. For the present study Descriptive survey method was adopted. Stratified Random Sampling Technique was used for the present study. From the study it was revealed that study habits play an important role in the achievement of the students. From the findings, it was revealed that, there is no significant difference between boys and girls, between government and private secondary level students. There is significant difference in achievement in secondary level subjects of boys and girls, private and government school students. There is a relationship between study habits and achievement in secondary level subjects.

Pages: 19-24
Bhattacharyya A. (Bharathiar University Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu)
Suresh A. (Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), DRDO, Delhi)
Selvaraj J.T. (Bharathiar University Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu)

The attempt to successfully manage multiple life domains is viewed as a critical component for employees in today's workforce. Of late researchers have been keen to investigate the personality mechanisms underlying the multi-faceted life balance. This study explored the role of time personality (Polychronicity) and role integration switching between work and non-work domains. Polychronicity is the attitude and preference associated with time use of an individual and it has been identified as an imperative competency in organizing various life domains. The present study explored polychronicity as an individual difference construct along with role integration as psychological predictors of life balance among 104 employees. By using a cross-sectional descriptive design the participants were administered Multitasking Preference Inventory (MPI), Boundary Flexibility Scale, Boundary Permeability Scale, Identity Similarity Scale and The Life Balance Questionnaire. Results revealed that Polychronicity, Work Boundary Flexibility and Non-work Boundary permeability were significantly related to Life Balance. The results of hierarchical regression showed that Polychronicity and Non-work boundary permeability emerged as significant predictors of Life Balance. This study highlights the role of time personality and role integration in balancing work and non-work domains leading to effective functioning and a healthier workplace.

Pages: 29-32
Rajani Ramesh Senad (Dr. Sow. I.B.P. Mahila College, Samarthnagar, Aurangabad, Maharashtra)

The present investigation is to find out the Mental health of deprived and Non-deprived adolescents in relation to their gender boys (Male) and girls (Females). The sample consisted of 200 Adolescents with Age between 16-18 years. Out of which 100 deprived adolescents (50 Male & 50 Females) and 100 Non deprived (50 Male & 50 Female) adolescents. For this purpose of investigation prolonged Deprivation scale by Girishwar Mishra, Tripathi, and Mental Helath Battery by Singh and Gupta was used. The obtained data were analyzed through 'f' test to know the Mean difference between deprived and Non-deprived adolescents in relation to their gender. The result show that there is significant difference in Mental health of deprived and Non deprived adolescents. It means that the Non deprived adolescents are better on Mental health than deprived adolescents. Gender role is important in this investigation. The adolescent boys are significantly better on mental health than the adolescent girls.

Pages: 38-42
Daneshwari Onkari and Sunanda Itagi (Department of Human Development, College of Rural Home Science University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka)

A study on occupational stress of women police was carried out in the year 2014-15 in Dharwad taluk, Karnataka state with the objectives to assess the occupational stress of women police and to know the relation between selected demographic variables with occupational stress of police. A total of 60 police belonging to 21-60 years age group were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwad taluk. The occupational stress was assessed using occupational stress scale developed by Srivastav and Sing (1984) socio economic status was assessed using socio-economic status scale developed by Agarwal et al. (2005) and self structured questionnaire were used to collect information. The data was collected through questionnaire method along with personal interview of the respondents. The results revealed that 60.00 per cent of women police had moderate level of occupational stress while 36.67 per cent had high and only 3.33 per cent had low level. Occupational stress was significantly and positive related to duty period and distance from residence pointing out that higher the duty period and greater the distance from residence higher was the occupational stress. There was significant and negative relationship between family size and occupational stress indicating that increase in family size decreased the stress. There was no significant relationship between age, education, marital status, work experience, opinion about work, socio economic status and occupational stress.

Pages: 50-52
Indu (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

This study was carried out to investigate the usages and purpose of social networking sites especially Facebook and What's app among the post graduate students who are using smart phones, of Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak. In the context of today's electronic media, social networking sites have come to mean individuals, using the Internet and web application to communicate. The objectives of the study were to find out the usages purpose, spending hours, how many students have account on Facebook and on what's app, and what students think about the usefulness of the social media in education. The study adopted the survey research design which was conducted on a sample size of 80 post graduate students. The sample was selected via simple random sampling technique. With the help of questionnaire the data were collected. The respondents completed and returned the questionnaire. The response rate was 100%. Percentage analysis was used to analyse and interpret the data. The result of the study reveals that almost every (75/80 on Facebook) (79/80 0n what's app) have account on social sites. Students spend most of the time using these sites. The purposes of using are collecting information and news, for passing the time, for finding friends, for chat, for gather the likes and comments, and for all the purposes above. Many students were agreed that facebook and what's app help in study. Less students did not agree with the statement. With many benefits social networking sites have dangers also. Awareness programme should be conducted by the university to teach the students negative aspects of facebook and what's app and as well as the positive sides also.

Pages: 60-65
Arogyaasha A. Shali and Manjula Patil (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Dharwad University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Parents of children with developmental disability are always bearing a load of stress. The aim of this study is to compare the stress in parents of children with developmental disabilities, considering the child related factors such as age, gender and ordinal position and level of retardation of the child. This study was conducted in selected districts of Northern Karnataka and special schools for mentally retarded children located in Hubblli-Dharwad city Karnataka, India. During 2016 on 90 parents of 5-18 years old children with developmental disability. Abedin's parenting stress questionnaire was used and Chi-square was used to know the association between the child factor and the parenting stress. Results showed that parents having children with 5-12 age group majority of parents in clinically significant level of stress. Parents of boys had clinically significant level of stress compared to girls. Parents having first child with developmental disability showed clinically significant level of stress. In case of parents of profound level of retarded children all parents had clinically significant level of stress. Chi-square analysis showed significant association between and level of retardation and parenting stress. Due to high level of parenting stress among the parents, special education and early intervention are needed for parents in order to deepening their diagnostic knowledge and professional consultation on stress management.

Pages: 70-72
Ved Prakash Maurya (Clinical Psychology , GBU, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh )
Ashok Kumar Patel (Clinical Psychologist, Maharaja Bhagwati Prasad Singh Memorial District Hospiatl Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh)
Vibha Sharma (Department of Clinical Psychology, IHBAS, New Delhi New Delhi)

Use of internet facility has increased in resent few years. It has observed that mostly youngsters have been affected from recent development of information and communication technology either positively or negatively. Aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between use of internet and health and well-being among college students. A total of 160 graduate and postgraduate students from various colleges and Universities of north India were participated in the study. Personal data seat consisting age, gender, education religion use of internet per week, etc fallowed by PGI health questionnaire and PGI well-being questionnaire were administered for the data collection. Results of the study reveals 41.3% students were on the border line of pathological use and 13.1% of the total populations are in danger john of use of internet. Study also reveals that excessive use of internet is an indicator of poor health and well being among college students.

Pages: 76-82
Kanica Bhutoria and Himangini Hooja (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The aim of the current study was to test the role positive and negative affect on Orientation ​to Happiness. The sample composed of 100 working males and females from the age group 35-65 years. The data were collected by administering Orientation to Happiness and Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS). Statistical analysis using SPSS revealed significant relationship between positive affect and orientation to Happiness. Out of the three subscales of orientation to happiness scale, only life of meaning and life of pleasure show positive significant linear relationship with positive affect. Correlation between negative affect and orientation to happiness was not significant. Further analysis using Regression revealed that positive affect contributed the most in variation in levels of orientation to Happiness.

Pages: 86-88
Dinesh Naik (Department of Psychology, Lasalgao, Nashik, Maharashtra)
Ahirrao Kiran D. (Department of Psychology, SPPU, Pune, Maharashtra)

The aim of the study was to explore the correlation between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Achievement Motivation of Senior college students as well as comparison between boys and girls in relation with Emotional Intelligence and Achievement Motivation. Accidental sampling method was used to collect the data of 150 undergraduate students (75 males & 75 females) from Ahmednagar city. The assessment tools consist of Emotional Intelligence scale by Schultz et al. (1998) and Achievement Motivation Scale by Bhargav (1994) To test the hypotheses statistical methods like Pearson product moment correlation and 't' test were used. The correlation between EI and Achievement Motivation was found r=.384**, which show significant positive correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Achievement Motivation of College students. Computed 't' = 2.24* indicates gender differences on emotional intelligence, females score higher than males on Emotional intelligence, where as gender difference was not found on achievement motivation, as 't' = .029 is not significant. The results are discussed in the light of previous research.

Pages: 93-96
Tabeer Ahmad and M. Ilyas Khan (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Caregiver is an individual who has the responsibility of meeting the physical and psychological needs of the dependent patient. The term “caregiver distress” is used to describe the physical, emotional and financial stress of providing care. As the disease progresses, it carries with it a tremendous increase of burden on the caregiver who does the caregiving. Caregivers of hospitalized individuals suffering from chronic medical illness are at risk of being subjected to mental health consequences such as depression, anxiety and burnout. This study provides an important contribution to a growing field of research that tries to investigate the distress, stressors, appraisals, and other factors that impact caregiver well-being. This study aimed to compare the level of distress among male and female caregivers. The study included two groups of caregivers, each of 50 members. Group 1 consisted of male caregivers of hospitalized patients and group 2 consisted of female caregivers of hospitalized patients. The sample was randomly selected from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (Aligarh, India). Caregiver Distress Scale was used to assess the distress and psychological well-being of caregivers. Several theories have suggested that gender differences in caregivers' outcomes exist because compared with male caregivers, male caregivers face higher levels of care giving stressors, have fewer social resources, and report lower levels of psychological and physical health. In the present study the caregiver distress in the male caregivers was significantly higher than that of females. In conclusion, male caregivers of hospitalized patients experienced higher burden than female caregivers irrespective of disease severity.

Pages: 101-105
Sanhitta J. Karmalkar (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra)
Alpana Vaidya (Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra)

The central question addressed in the study is whether there are differences in resilience across gender and socio-economic classes among adolescents. To answer this question, 308 late adolescents between the age range of 16 to 18 years and who have migrated to Pune city for the purpose of education were included in the study. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD; RISC, 2003) developed by Kathryn Connor and Jonathan Davidson was used to measure resilience. Socio-economic status was measured using the Socio-Economic Status Scale (rural) by Dubey and Nigam (2005). Independent 't' test was used to analyze differences in resilience across gender and socio-economic groups. Results revealed that no significant differences on resilience were found between adolescent boys and girls and also between the socio-economic groups. Findings have been discussed in the light of relevant literature.

Pages: 110-114
Sayantani Bhattacharya (Department of Applied Psychology, Womens College Kolkata, West Bengal)
Sanjukta Das (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta Kolkata, West Bengal)

Pregnancy is a turning point in a women's life that is marked by innumerable metamorphoses in different spheres of life. The effects of some of these are transitory and some are permanent. Such period of crisis needs intense review to get a clearer picture of this central milestone of a woman's life. The present study was designed to assess the psychological conditions affecting the pregnancy period of primigravidae for which 46 primigravidae were reviewed on factors like anxiety, depression, happiness, different factors of personality and general well being, twice once in their first trimester and again in their third trimester of pregnancy. For the analyses of the data product moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analyses was done with the help of SPSS package. The findings revealed happiness as the most positive factor of general well-being in both the trimester of pregnancies.

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Jaya Bharti (Department of Psychology, A. N. D. N. N. M., Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
Pallavi Bhatnagar (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

To study the relationship between Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Life among Clients and to see group differences on study variables between Person with intellectual disability and physical disability. Corelational study. Total sample size was 150 male Clients in which 75 were physically disabled (PD) (polio affected, deaf & dumb & visually impaired) and 75 were intellectually Disabled (ID). Affectometer-2 and WHOQOL-BREF were used to study Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Life. Results showed significant positive correlation between Psychological Well-Being (combination of feeling good & functioning effectively) and Quality of Life and negative relationship with disability of Clients. Group differences were seen that Person with Physically Disabled have high Psychological Well-Being (t=5.91, p<0.01) and Quality of Life (t=8.40, p<0.01) as compared to Person with Intellectually Disabled. On the basis of our results it is concluded that Person with Intellectually Disabled have low Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Life as compared to Person with Physically Disabled.