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Study of gender difference in relation to perceived quality of home environment and social intelligence among school adolescents Pages: 488-491 Mehmoodun Nisa, Sadaf Hameed and Shaheen Zehra (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) The present study was undertaken to assess how perceived quality of home environment i.e. family relations, continuing parental conflict and family members associations with adolescents vary by gender and contribute in the development of social intelligence. For this purpose data was collected on a representative sample of 156 adolescents. Studying in class IX, X, XI and XII (78 males and 78 females) aged 14-17 years from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. After building rapport participants were requested to give response on Home Environment Inventory (HEI) developed by Misra (1983) and Social Intelligence Scale developed by Chadha and Ganesan's (1986) administered individually. The findings of study after applying multiple regression analysis (step-wise) revealed that gender as a factor associated with social intelligence operates differently in terms of home environment. Male adolescents perceive their home environment in more negative manner in terms of rejection, deprivation of privileges and punishment emerged as significant predictors for most of the dimensions of social intelligence. But in females most of the dimensions of home environment were positive in nature like protectiveness, reward, permissiveness and nurturance showed positive influence on social intelligence. Further findings indicated that confidence was the only dimension of social intelligence that emerges significant predictor for control in male group. In females in spite of having positive influence permissiveness also showed negative influence on patience and nurturance on sensitivity aspects of social intelligence. Finally females were found to be more outgoing and socially more socially more intelligent in comparison of male adolescents. Pages: 488-491Mehmoodun Nisa, Sadaf Hameed and Shaheen Zehra (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) Read more Get Access
Parenting style and emotional maturity Pages: 492-496 Nisha Dilip Mundada (Department of Psychology and Career Counseling Centre, Pachora North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Maharashtra) This Study analyzes the parenting Style and emotional maturity of 100 XI & XII Standard students from the Pachora town in Maharashtra state of India. Bharadwaj et al's parenting scale and Singh and Bhargava's emotional maturity scale were used. Majority of the respondents have developed acceptance, carelessness, realistic role expectation, marital adjustment and realism perceived on the models of parenting. The results of emotional maturity can be concluded that 9, 8, 29, 54 percent respondents had developed extremely emotionally mature, moderately mature, immature & extremely emotionally immature respectively. The models like acceptance, moralism, marital adjustment & behavior of mothers with their children in their interaction increase the emotional maturity. The other models & behavior of fathers with their children in their interaction also increase emotional maturity but is not significant in this study. Pages: 492-496Nisha Dilip Mundada (Department of Psychology and Career Counseling Centre, Pachora North Maharashtra University… Read more Get Access
Meaning in life and psychological well-being in female breast cancer patients Pages: 497-499 Mahvish Fatima and Zulfiqar Ullah Siddiqui (Department.of Psychology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) The present study was done to examine the relationship between perception of meaning in life and psychological well being among females diagnosed with breast cancer. 100 female breast cancer patients (married = 50; unmarried =50) in a hospital set-up, were administered standardized measures of meaning in life and well-being. Independent sample t tests were conducted to test mean differences in meaning and well-being between married and unmarried patients. Results revealed that unmarried women participants scored significantly higher on both the measures than the patients who were married. On the whole, life meaning was found to be significantly and positively correlated with meaning in life for the total sample. Pages: 497-499Mahvish Fatima and Zulfiqar Ullah Siddiqui (Department.of Psychology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) Read more Get Access
Employment and well-being issues in Indian BPO organizations Pages: 500-502 Jay Singh and Ranjana Mittra (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi) This review paper highlights the context within which business process outsourcing (BPO) has rapidly grown in India and the paper critically investigates the issues of the employment and well-being of employees in this sector. Through the study of relative review of literature, we analyze the nature of Indian BPO organization and the above issues. The analysis focuses on the nature and structure of work and employment in the Indian BPOs. Furthermore, the results highlight that many of the problems facing the Indian BPO industry relate directly to the management of human capital. Some of the challenges include high attrition or turnover rate which will lead to a shortage of employees at the junior level. But near about all of the employees related problems directly or indirectly correlated with the employee's well-being. Our study suggests the existence of formal, structured and rationalized HRM system for Indian BPOs, which can improve well-being to BPO employees, and the purpose of the present researcher was to address this issue. Pages: 500-502Jay Singh and Ranjana Mittra (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi) Read more Get Access
To study the personality characteristics and quality of life in psoriasis patients Pages: 503-506 Surender Kumar, Koolwal, G. D. and Sanjay Gehlot (Department of Psychiatry, Dr. S.N.Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan) This study aimed to anlayse the personality characteristics and quality of life in psoriasis patients. Sample consisted of 50 psoriasis patients who had attended OPD of skin and VD department in M.D.M.hospital, attached to Dr S.N. Medical College, Jodhpur and compared with 50 matched normal healthy controls. Results showed 64 % of psoriasis patients scored high on neuroticism and 30% scored high on extroversion and 16% scored high on psychoticism as compared to 44 %, 52% and 4% of controls respectively. Score of subjective well being inventory suggest that 52% of psoriasis patients had poor quality of life i.e. negative sense of well being as compare to 18 % of control group. Thus we may conclude that significant psoriasis patients belong to neuroticism, type of personality traits along which negative sense of well being which leads to disturbed mental health equilibrium. Pages: 503-506Surender Kumar, Koolwal, G. D. and Sanjay Gehlot (Department of Psychiatry, Dr. S.N.Medical College… Read more Get Access
Depression in coronary heart disease patients Pages: 507-509 Akancha Srivastava (Department of Psychology, TD College, Jaunpur, UP) The aim of the present study was to ascertain depression in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) patients. 100 patients in CHD group were selected for testing. A normal group of same strength was also sampled for the purpose of comparison with patients. Depression in the subjects was measured with T.S. Depression Scale developed by Thakur and Singh (1994). The responses of the subjects were converted into scores and were subjected to suitable statistical techniques. The analysis of the data revealed that CHD patients suffer much more from the problem of depression as compared to their normal counterparts. Results are thoroughly discussed and implication of the findings are indicated. Pages: 507-509Akancha Srivastava (Department of Psychology, TD College, Jaunpur, UP) Read more Get Access
Academic stress and coping strategies among pre-university students: A comparative study Pages: 510-512 Manjula G. Kadapatti and Ahm Vijayalaxmi (Department of Human Development, Smt V.H.D. Central Institute of Home Science, Bangalore) Stress is a perceived imbalance between demand and response capability under conditions and where failure to meet demands has important consequences. The forces are either within the person or within the environment that affect the individual. For academic excellence as well as taking advantage of future opportunities that come in the way of one's life learning is important. Particularly it assumes a great importance at 11th and 12th standard. Based on this a need was felt to study academic stress among PUC students. So, 360 pre-university students of both boys and girls were selected by using random sampling method from four co-educational colleges of Dharwad. Stress event test by Bhagwatar (2000) and coping strategies inventory developed by investigator was used. The results revealed that second year PUC students and male student significantly had higher academic stress than first years and female students irrespective of all faculties. Arts and Commerce students of first year had lesser stress than second year students of arts and commerce unlike science students where in both first and second year stress was similar. It was observed that a highest percentage of students employed one or the other coping strategies to manage stress. Pages: 510-512Manjula G. Kadapatti and Ahm Vijayalaxmi (Department of Human Development, Smt V.H.D. Central Institute… Read more Get Access
Implicit and explicit memory bias for words related to food, shape and body parts in obese and normal weight females Pages: 513-516 L. N. Bunker (J.N. V. University, Jodhpur) Ajay K. Chaudhary (Government M.G. College, Udaipur) The aim of this study was to explore the information processing of words related to food, shape and body parts in women of obese and normal weights. Twenty severely obese patients, 20 obese patients and 20 normal weight individuals, all of whom were female, were assessed using implicit and explicit memory tasks. The memory tasks involved words related to food, shape and body parts. Results showed biases in implicit memory measures. Severely obese women completed significantly more food-related words than other words. Obese patients completed significantly more food- and shape-related words than did the other groups. Normal weight females did not show any bias on the implicit memory measures. No explicit memory biases were found in any groups. Pages: 513-516L. N. Bunker (J.N. V. University, Jodhpur)Ajay K. Chaudhary (Government M.G. College, Udaipur) Read more Get Access
Feedforward and anxiety dynamics in complex performance situations Pages: 517-519 Harpreet, K. Chhabra and Preeti Nagpal (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India) The study in hand was undertaken to analyse the performance of three groups (viz. low, moderate and high anxiety) of female adolescents (mean age= 17.1 yrs.), on a simulated driving task through a repeated measures 3x3x3 anova analysis. The aim was to gain insight into the performance dynamics of these groups of subjects when task complexity is varied and when they have received a feedforward regarding the pressure of the oncoming task. Results showed that feedforward exerts the its intended effect on the performance level of a task even when the feedforward is given randomly across task complexity conditions. A significant interaction effect of feedforward and anxiety was another important finding of the study. Pages: 517-519Harpreet, K. Chhabra and Preeti Nagpal (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India) Read more Get Access
A comparative study of mental health problems and role conflict among industrial supervisory personnels Pages: 520-523 Nirmala Kaushik and Rakesh Behmani (Department of Applied Psychology, G.J.U.S.&T, Hisar, Haryana) Role conflict affects the mental health of the employees. It is the major determinant of organizational stress. Stress is the degree of tension, anxiety and pressure experienced by a person. Stress is generally assumed as the outcome of the transaction between the stimulus and the response. Mental health is an important internal resource which assures a stable quality of life. In other words mental health is how people look at themselves their lives and other people, evaluate their challenges and problems. It has been reported as an important factor influencing individual's various behaviours, activities, happiness and performance. The success of performance of mental functions results in productive activities. Qualitative work and good production in any organization depend on the mental health of workers of that organization. Keeping in view these points a study was conducted to know the effect of role conflict on mental health of industrial employees. This study was conducted on males and females (100 each in the age range of 25-55 years). The results indicated that role conflict affect the mental health of industrial workers. Higher role conflict indicated poorer mental health. Pages: 520-523Nirmala Kaushik and Rakesh Behmani (Department of Applied Psychology, G.J.U.S.&T, Hisar, Haryana) Read more Get Access
Thalassemia as a challenge in India Pages: 524-525 Aparna Singh, B.D. Bhatia, S. K. Upadhyay and Vineeta Gupta (Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, B.H.U., Varanasi) Thalassemia has become a worldwide clinical problem due to increasing immigration of ethnic groups with high prevalence of thalassemia. 30 million people carry thalassemia gene in the world of which approximately 15 million alone are in India. The carrier rate varies from 3 - 17 % in different ethnic groups. Over the past three decades, better medical facilities, regular blood transfusions and iron chelation have improved the quality of life of children with thalassemia and converted it from fatal to chronic disease with prolonged life. Thalassemia is an inherited autosomal recessive blood disease which is characterized by an imbalance in the production of alpha and beta polypeptide chains of haemoglobin. The goal of medical care is not only to achieve long term survival but also to achieve the best possible psychological, social and spiritual wellbeing. With increased life expectancy of these patients, complications keep arising such as transfusion related infections, allosensitization, iron- overload related cardiac, endocrine and liver disturbances, toxicities of iron chelators, hepatic involvement, neurological complications and psychological manifestations. These can manifest as anxiety, nervousness, irritability, demanding a lot of attention, depression, etc. in the child. This paper emphasizes the fact that these children may require something more than simple medical management and also psychological support. In short, beta thalassemia has a spectrum of varied manifestations and complications. We need to develop preventive strategies like pre- marital screening, genetic counselling, ante- natal diagnosis and educational programs for awareness. Apart from early diagnosis, there is also a need to increase medical facilities which is a great challenge facing India .This paper gives a brief overview of the disease and focuses on the behaviour of children with thalassemia. We have described their psychological symptoms and strongly recommend psychological interventions as part of effective management plan. Pages: 524-525Aparna Singh, B.D. Bhatia, S. K. Upadhyay and Vineeta Gupta (Department of Pediatrics, Institute… Read more Get Access
Comparitive study of mental health and general well-being among male and female alcoholics Pages: 549-550 Fatima, M. and Iqbal, K. (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.) Mental health and Well-being of Alcoholics vary significantly between males and females. This study is a comparative study of mental health and general well-being among male and females (100 alcoholics, 50 males and 50 females) aged between 20-50 years. Tools used for the collection of data included P.G.I Health questionnaire (N-1) and P.G.I General Well-being measure. The scores of the individuals were treated statistically, tabulated and interpreted. The results revealed that there is significant difference between male and female alcoholics with regard to their mental health and Well-being. The male alcoholics are in a higher state of mental health and Well-being as compared to female alcoholics. Study the mental and general well being of male and female alcoholics 100 alcoholics , comprising 50 males and females , 20 50 years age group , matched in terms of age, marital status and education, selected randomly from different rehabilitation centres of delhi. PGI Health Questionaire (N1) and PGI Well being Scales were used . Statistical analysis used: “t” test and “df” degree of freedom Alcohol is a social and physical hazard for both males and females , however female alcoholics are more prone to social, physical and psychological hazards of alcohol and its effect at a lower level and after a shorter duration of use. Alcohol is not an ordinary commodity. While it carries connotations of pleasure and sociability in the minds of many, harmful consequences of its use are diverse and widespread. Worldwide, alcohol is expected to take an increasing toll on lives and communities. Indeed more and more alcohol is consumed per person in countries such as India. National monitoring systems are needed to keep track of alcohol consumption and its consequences, in order to raise awareness among the general public and avoid the social, psychological and medical hazards associated with it . Pages: 549-550Fatima, M. and Iqbal, K. (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.) Read more Get Access
Perceived mental health among students of private and government schools Pages: 529-532 Amjad Ali and Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) Since, private and government sectors differs to each other in terms of their cultural values, other related opportunities and problems, therefore, the present investigation is planned to make a comparative study of mental health among students of private and government schools. It was hypothesized that students of private schools would have better mental health as compared to the students of government schools. The sample of the present investigation consists of (N = 160) respondents, 80 students from each private and government senior secondary schools were randomly selected from different parts of Aligarh, U.P. A highly standardized mental health inventory consisting of 56 items developed by Jagdish and Srivatava (1983) was administered individually to each respondent of the sample. This inventory assesses 6 dimensions of mental health such as self- evolution, perception of reality , integration of personality, autonomy and stability, growth oriented attitude and environmental mastery. In this inventory high score is indicative of good mental health and low score is indicative of poor mental health. Finally, t- test was employed to analyze the data of the present research. Statistical analysis reveals significant difference between means of two groups of private and government schools. The findings of this research may have its own significance and far- reaching implications in this context. Pages: 529-532Amjad Ali and Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) Read more Get Access
Effect of counselling on self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students Pages: 533-537 R. Subasree (Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu) The present investigation was carried out to study the effect of counseling on self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The objectives of the study was to explore the relationship between 'self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The study was to find out the relationship between self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The study was experimental in nature and it was investigated by pre-test and post-test with intervention programme design. The sample size was 30 students from tenth standard and twelfth standard (18 boys, 12 girls). The group counseling programme was carried out to enhance the self-esteem to subjects. The programme duration was two weeks and two consecutive Saturday Sundays followed by a post-test. The test administered to the subject's pre-post intervention, were Karunanidhi's self esteem scale and academic anxiety scale for children by. Singh and Gupta A. Sen was used. The appropriate statistical analysis was utilized for the study. There has been relationship between self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students, which shows negative correlation that is if the student is having low self-esteem the academic anxiety, is high for him/her. There is a significant improvement in factors of self-esteem as a result of counselling program. And the academic anxiety is reduced after the counselling programme among both standards. And the male and female doesn't differ in both the main variables even after the counseling the there is difference found. Pages: 533-537R. Subasree (Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu) Read more Get Access
Influence of maternal stress on the self-esteem of teenage childrenInfluence of maternal stress on the self-esteem of teenage children Pages: 538-540 Sujaritha Magdalin and Jelin Rebekah A. (Department of Psychology, Presidency College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) The present study investigated the influence of maternal stress on the self esteem of their teenaged children. The study comprised of 60 respondents (30 mothers and 30 of their children aged between 13 and 15) chosen by purposive sampling method. Parental stress scale (PSS) by Berry and Jones (1995) and the self esteem scale by S.Karunanidhi (1996), were used for this study. Pearson's Correlation was used for the analysis of the data collected. Results showed that there was a significant negative relationship between parenting stress and the self esteem of their teenaged children. Results also showed that there was no significant relationship between parenting stress competency, and global self esteem levels of the teenaged children indicating that the competency self esteem and global self esteem remain unaffected by the influence of parenting stress. This finding implies that the ability of the teenagers to perform their scholastic tasks remain uninfluenced by the parenting stress of their mothers. Pages: 538-540Sujaritha Magdalin and Jelin Rebekah A. (Department of Psychology, Presidency College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) Read more Get Access
Prevelance and correlates of socio-demographic factors on adolescent suicide behavior Pages: 541-545 Solomon Renati (Department of Psychology, KBP College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai) Shreeletha Solomon (Institute for Child & Adolescent Health Research, Mumbai ) Research on adolescent mental health suggests that prevalence rates for suicide behavior are not uniformly distributed across all populations. This study examined sociodemographic difference in suicide intentions and suicide attempts among adolescent students of Mumbai schools and colleges. An epidemiological pilot survey was conducted on a sample of 1127 young people from 9 schools and colleges in Mumbai city. Rates of suicidal ideation and attempts were examined against the sociodemographic factors. Analysis used frequency distributions and cross tabulations to derive prevalence rates and associations between suicidal behavior and sociodemographic factors. Overall, 12.0% of the sample reported having suicidal ideation and 6.1% reported having made a suicide attempt during the past 6 months. Culturally relevant sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, religion, caste, linguistic background and socioeconomic factors were associated with both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Where the aetiology of suicide is concerned, researchers must examine both sociodemographic factors and the psychological factors associated with them. Understanding the role of sociodemographic factors on suicide behavior will greatly enhance our ability to design effective prevention strategies. Pages: 541-545Solomon Renati (Department of Psychology, KBP College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai)Shreeletha Solomon (Institute for Child… Read more Get Access
Stress among women teachers working in normal and special schools Pages: 546-548 B. Prasad Babu (Indira Gandhi National Open University) The present study was conducted to assess the level of stress among women teachers working in normal and special schools. The study was conducted on a sample of 100 women teachers. Among them 30 teachers were from government schools, 35 teachers were government aided schools and 35 teachers remaining were drawn from private schools. They were administered a questionnaire on stress by Latha. The results indicated that there was a significant difference in the level of stress among women teachers handling normal and special children and also significant differences were observed in their age, experience and for teachers who are working under different management schools. Pages: 546-548B. Prasad Babu (Indira Gandhi National Open University) Read more Get Access
A study on academic stress among adolescents in twin cities of Andhra Pradesh Pages: 551-555 Chava Nirmala (Department of Psychology, St. Anns College of Education, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh) M.V.R. Raju (Department of Psychology, Andhra University Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh) Stress is universal human experience. Stress and strain are experienced by adolescents, especially students. The study is an attempt to find out the academic stress and anxiety among the students in twin cities of Andhra Pradesh. The total sample for the present study was 743 (male=373 and female=370). The Student Academic Stress Scale (1991) developed by Rajendranand K.V. Kaliappan was used to gather the data. A demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher was also used. A quantitative survey method was employed using statistical procedures such as t-test and f-test. The findings of the study points out that there were significant influence and difference between the demographical variables like gender, type of school, medium, type of syllabus with Academic Stress. Based on the findings of the study a set of recommendations were formulated. Pages: 551-555Chava Nirmala (Department of Psychology, St. Anns College of Education, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh)M.V.R. Raju… Read more Get Access
Child sexual abuse: A spur for criminal behaviour development Pages: 556-559 Ameen Abdulla and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala) Crime has been taking place since time immemorial. The most common definition about “Criminal Behaviour” is that it portrays any behaviour that goes against or violates law, whether the offender is caught or not. Likewise a criminal is an individual who commits an act that violates the strict rules and regulations of the society, thereby harming or not harming another individual, property and so on intentionally or unintentionally. The various causes that lead to a crime to take place are neurological deformities, genetic trait, situational factors, and uncomfortable bad experiences undergone in childhood such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, and emotional abuse and so on. These are nothing but various forms of child abuse that violate a child's right to live a happy life. All the victims may not experience in the same way. It is usually seen that majority of these individuals take along these experiences to their adulthood in a complex manner. Sexual abuse is studied in depth in the present study. This paper attempts to find out whether these nightmare experiences make the victim become an offender himself. On conducting regular semi structured interviews with prisoners housed in various prisons of Kerala, mainly focusing on rape offenders, paedophiles and child abusers the investigators were able to see that most of the offenders had gone through sexual abuse in their childhood, being un-intervened and that had changed their lives drastically. Most of the offenders kept coming back for the same type of offense, time and again. Some psychological factors like rejection sensitivity and attachment patterns are identified as intervening variables. The details are discussed in the paper. Pages: 556-559Ameen Abdulla and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala) Read more Get Access
Historical practices, policies and their impact on the Indian education system: An analysis of strengths and shortcomings Pages: 560-562 Manju Elizabeth Alexander (Department of Psychology) Indian governments have seen education as a crucial development tool. The development of education is a continuum, which gathers its past history into a living stream, flowing through the present into the future. This paper begins with a brief historical background of educational development in India and the changing emphasis within government policy which have shaped the education system in India to better understand the present and visualize the future. It provides an understanding of how traditions have come to shape the content and methodologies employed in educational settings in India. The purpose of this reflection is to serve as a means to draw on strengths from ancient practices as well as to create an opportunity for rethinking other such practices having roots in Indian history which may be detrimental to the students' experience of learning. Pages: 560-562Manju Elizabeth Alexander (Department of Psychology) Read more Get Access
Parents of mental challenged children and their counselling needs Pages: 563-566 Simerjeet Kaur (Dashmesh Nager, Civil Lines Rampur, UP) Just as healthy body enhance our capacity to fight the disease causing elements in our body and increases our stamina .similarly healthy mind increases our capacity to withstand adverse situations of life. Enhancing mental health is the greatest challenge for the persons with mental retardation and their parents. Only parents can help, support and make home improvement in the mentally challenged persons. It becomes very necessary that first of all, the problems and requirement of such parents should be found out. This study is focused on the counseling needs of the parents of the mentally challenged persons, so that they may provide better guidance and support to their children to enable them to lead a normal life. For identifying their needs interview and observation method was used. This is exploratory research based on the study of the 20 parents, their problems, their dilemma, and their ways to handle their children. Pages: 563-566Simerjeet Kaur (Dashmesh Nager, Civil Lines Rampur, UP) Read more Get Access
Influence of emotional intelligence and moral values in learning and performance Pages: 567-568 Urmi Shelley (Counselor and Psychotherapist, Bengaluru) Geetha Appachu (Psychologist, SWAPRERAN, Bengaluru) Children grow up in diverse families. These varying circumstances can affect children's development and influence students in and beyond the classroom (Luster& Okagaki, 2005). Learning and thinking styles are student's preferences in how they use their intellectual and other abilities. Academic performance is today understood as being beyond structured and elaborate learning styles. This paper attempts to highlight the influence of Emotional Intelligence and Moral values in Learning and performance. Pages: 567-568Urmi Shelley (Counselor and Psychotherapist, Bengaluru)Geetha Appachu (Psychologist, SWAPRERAN, Bengaluru) Read more Get Access
State-Trait anxiety, spiritualism and maladjustment in relation to phobia Pages: 569-571 Vidhya Ravindranadan and Immanuel Thomas (Department of Psychology, University of Kerala, Kerala) In the present study an attempt has been made to understand the differences in state-trait anxiety, spiritualism, and maladjustment among three different groups of participants showing symptoms of phobia (specific phobia, social phobia, and mixed phobia) and a group of normal controls. Data from a sample of 200 participants were utilized for the purpose. The tools used were Fear Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Materialism-Spiritualism scale, and Mathew Maladjustment Inventory. The major finding of the present study was that the phobic groups scored significantly higher than the control group in state anxiety, spiritualism, and maladjustment. In trait anxiety, the mixed phobia group scored higher compared to all the other sub groups. Pages: 569-571Vidhya Ravindranadan and Immanuel Thomas (Department of Psychology, University of Kerala, Kerala) Read more Get Access
The effect of intervention on knowledge of abuse, assertiveness and self-concept to resist child sexual abuse among girl children Pages: 572-575 Zarina Ahmed (Womens Christian College, Madras University, Chennai ) Sujaritha Magdalin (Department of Psychology, Presidency College, Madras University, Chennai ) Child sexual abuse is an issue that transcends caste, creed, class or socioeconomic status and is found to be widespread in India. The problem of the present study was to find the effectiveness of an intervention on resisting sexual abuse among girl children, aged 11-13years, of girls belonging to standard six and seven from a Government school in Chennai, using the experimental research design. The effect of the independent variable- the intervention on resisting abuse on the dependent variables, knowledge of sexual abuse, self concept and assertiveness was studied among girl children. The inclusion criteria included girl children aged 11-13 years from the lower socio economic status. The exclusion criteria included those girls presently going through sexual abuse. The sample of 60 girl children, 30 girls in the experimental group and 30 girls in the control group was selected through random sampling, The tools used included the Children's knowledge of abuse questionnaire by Tutty, the Self-Concept scale by Piers and Harris and the Children's Assertiveness inventory by Ollander. The main study was conducted in four phases: pre-training assessment, implementation, post-training assessment and follow up. The data collected was analyzed using the paired t test, trend analysis and the repeated measures ANOVA to test the various hypotheses of the study. Pearson's product moment correlation was used to assess the relationship between the variables studied. Results obtained indicate that the Knowledge of abuse of girl children has significantly improved after the resisting abuse intervention. The intervention has also been effective in enhancing the assertiveness of children, but has not had a significant impact on the self-concept levels of the sample. There has not been maintenance of the learning acquired on knowledge of abuse and assertiveness among the children over the follow- up period. The trend analysis indicates that the knowledge of sexual abuse component of the intervention has been effective in bringing about change in the experimental group, during the post-test period. However, the gain in knowledge has not been maintained over the follow-up period. Pages: 572-575Zarina Ahmed (Womens Christian College, Madras University, Chennai )Sujaritha Magdalin (Department of Psychology, Presidency… Read more Get Access
Role of parenting style and parenting stress upon behavioral problems of learning disabled children Pages: 576-581 Sudhesh N.T. and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala) Learning disability is the limited ability in learning, restricted to certain areas of learning; they do not include learning problem which are primarily due to visual, hearing or motor handicaps, mental retardation, emotional disturbance or to adverse environmental factors. As learning starts with birth and ends with death, as disability can be expected in any of the minute faculty of human being; while limiting to the academic learning and the types and varieties of learning disabilities explored till now are limited. In the present era, just due to the importance given by the common man to education, the differentially-abled performance creates lot of difficulty to certain parents. The present study investigates such parental stress in relation to their parenting behavior styles. The sample includes parents of learning disabled children (LD) and parents of non-disabled children (NLD), especially limiting to mothers. The collected data will be scientifically discussed in the paper. Pages: 576-581Sudhesh N.T. and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala) Read more Get Access

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