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Pages: 169-174
Priti (Department of Education, Shri Venketashwara University, Gajraula, UP)

In the present study, the focus was on adolescents' understanding of emotion, including their ideas of emotional competence. In addition, adults' construals of emotion, and emotional competence in children were investigated. Identifying perspectives on factors which influence the development of emotional competence was also attempted. Data generation techniques included conversational-style interactions, termed as active interviews, of individuals and small groups; certain classroom-based written exercises, and enactments followed up with focus group discussions, and incidental observations. Audio recording of the interviews, and field notes were the modes of data management. Analysis of data was approached qualitatively, with a search for themes, in alignment with the objectives of the study. Findings revealed that the adolescents portrayed emotions as subjective experiences with somato-psychic components and behavioral display elicited by, and experienced in, social settings and interpersonal contexts. Familiarity with Hindi emotion terms was amply evident. One's nature or disposition as a contributor to one's emotions and the self was evident in the accounts of older adolescents. Emotional qualities of others have been described as traits and transient displays Emotional competence as characterized by management of emotions was found to be relevant.
Pages: 169-174 Priti (Department of Education, Shri Venketashwara University, Gajraula, UP)
Pages: 165-168
Sunita (Department of Education, Singhania University, Singhania, Rajasthan)

The present study is for conducted to evaluate critically a Government project named Sabla: Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of the Adolescent Girls. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, in the year 2000, came up with a scheme called Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY), which was implemented using the infrastructure of the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS). The objective of this scheme was to improve the nutrition and health status of girls in the age‐group of 11 to 18 years, to equip them to improve and upgrade their home‐based and vocational skills, and to promote their overall development, including awareness about their health, personal hygiene, nutrition and family welfare and management. Thereafter, the Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) was initiated as a pilot project in the year 2002-03 in 51 identified districts across the country to address the problem of under‐nutrition among AGs(Adolescent Girls).This evaluation is being done to review the performance of the programme and to evaluate weather this project has being able to achieve the target, it was meant for.
Pages: 165-168 Sunita (Department of Education, Singhania University, Singhania, Rajasthan)
Pages: 161-164
Tarundeep Kaur (Department of Psychology, GGDSD College, Chandigarh)

The study aimed at studying the amount of aggression among the youth in the present day world and how it further affects their academic progress. The study was conducted on students between the age group of 19-25 year of urban background. The sample included both undergraduate and graduate students. Aggression Scale ( A- Scale) by Km. Roma Pal and Dr. Tasneem Naqvi were used. The tests were conducted in a series of sessions. In total 150 students were tested, out of which 75 boys and 75 girls participated. The results gave a complete view of how aggression in youth affects their academic performance. Results revealed how abuse, alcohol, drug use, gangs, bullying and violent media place kids at risk for becoming a perpetrator or victim of violence. Higher the aggression level a decline was seen in an individual academic score while in case of lower aggression the academic score has either risen or remained in the same range. Gender differences were also noted where, more females have shown high aggression level as compared to males and males have shown more steep falls in the graphs of academics.
Pages: 161-164 Tarundeep Kaur (Department of Psychology, GGDSD College, Chandigarh)
Pages: 157-160
Nayanika Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)
Amit Kumar Dwivedi (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

Quality of life has been one of the major areas of interest and attention seeking concern for researchers. There is no doubt that life is common to all but quality of life varies from individual to individual, irrespective of their age and background. However, we as researchers tend to group individuals matching on some aspect or the other, thus the quality of life of that particular group will be static and dynamic, this statement does not hold much weight. But yes, people having some of the common factors in some aspect of life would share some common quality of life that is for sure. Self Efficacy and Self Regulation are considered and proven as key determinants of quality of life and life satisfaction over the globe and across the ages, but independently. This may be a new and first attempt to examine their strength i.e. magnitude and the direction of relationship with quality of life in one study or altogether. Participants for the present study consisted of 120 school going adolescents, age ranging between 13-17 years, who were randomly selected from boarding schools of Solan District of Himachal Pradesh. A selection criterion of sample was age, socio-economic status, educational level and occupational status. WHO Quality of Life Scale, Self Regulation Questionnaire-Academics, and General Self Efficacy Scale were administered on the participants and Bivariate correlation technique of parametric statistics was applied on the raw scores obtained to draw the inference about the data. Results revealed that there is significant positive correlation among the variables i.e. QOL & GSE; QOL & SRQ, but QOL & SRQ are comparatively highly significantly positively correlated than QOL & GSE, however a distinctive result was revealed that GSE & SRQ-A are not significantly correlated.
Pages: 157-160 Nayanika Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala) Amit Kumar Dwivedi (Department of Psychology, Panjab…
Pages: 153-156
Jagpreet Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University, Patiala)
Sandeep Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University, Patiala)

Educational aspirations have been identified as a main strategy for widening educational participation in lifelong learning process. The present study explored the effect of gender and home environment on educational aspirations in a random sample of 200 adolescents studying in +1 class in the government and private schools located in Patiala district of Punjab. The data was collected with the help of educational aspirations scale and home environment inventory. The results of the t-test revealed significant gender differences in educational aspirations among adolescents. Further, it was found that educational aspirations among adolescents are negatively and significantly correlated with the negative dimensions of home environment viz. deprivation of privileges, rejection and permissiveness. However, the educational aspirations among adolescents are significantly and positively correlated with positive home environment dimensions of reward and nurturance. Implications of the results are discussed.
Pages: 153-156 Jagpreet Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University, Patiala) Sandeep Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University…
Pages: 150-152
Hardeep Kaur (Department of Social Work Punjabi University, Patiala)

This paper provides a general framework on issues related to disability , need for inclusion and its association to inclusive education in general. Apart from this some specific aspects of inclusive education in India have been outlined .and the last part brings together some general barriers to inclusive education followed by concluding suggestions.
Pages: 150-152 Hardeep Kaur (Department of Social Work Punjabi University, Patiala)
Pages: 148-149
Jagpreet Kaur and Sandeep Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University, Patiala)

Inclusive education is a worldwide phenomenon widely advocated in the recent past. Teacher characteristics such as attitudes are considered as the most important factor for successful inclusion. The present study investigated the attitude of elementary school teachers towards inclusive education as related to certain characteristics of these teachers. A survey was conducted on a random sample of 195 elementary school teachers teaching in various private and government schools of Patiala district of Punjab. A scale for measuring the attitude towards inclusive education (ATIES) was used. The results of t-test revealed significant differences in attitude of elementary school teachers towards inclusive education with regard to gender, location, type of school, years of teaching experience, educational qualifications, teacher training, having a family member/ friend with disability and level of confidence in teaching students with disability. The implications of the results are discussed. Further, some useful recommendations are provided for teachers, educators and policy makers and implementers in India.
Pages: 148-149 Jagpreet Kaur and Sandeep Kaur (Department of Education, Punjabi University, Patiala)
Pages: 144-147
Charli and Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)

The present study examined the predictive influence of personality factors on organizational effectiveness among middle managers. The sample of the present investigation comprises N=250 middle level managers. The respondents were randomly selected from different private sectors located in Delhi and its NCR (National Capital Region). The sample was confined to only male respondents. The age of the respondents was found to be ranges between 23-64 years. Personality factors were assessed by the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) (Costa & McCrae, 1992), which provides measures of five well-established domains of personality: neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Organizational Effectiveness was measured by Organizational Effectiveness Scale which was developed by Srivastava and Banerjee (1997). Both psychological measures are highly reliable and valid. To find out the best predictors of criterion variable and to know on what extent these predictor variables influence criterion variable, step-wise multiple regression analysis was used. The findings of the present endeavor revealed that among all predictor variables (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) four variables namely, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience were emerged as significant predictors of organizational effectiveness. It was clearly found that agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience have significant negative predictive influence on organizational effectiveness whereas, conscientiousness was found to have its positive predictive influence on organizational effectiveness. These findings have far-reaching implications in the current world of industrial development.
Pages: 144-147 Charli and Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)
Pages: 139-143
C. R. Darolia and Shivani Khanna (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction, work commitment and perceived organizational support. Further, it was aimed to examine relative effectiveness of different components of work commitment and perceived organizational support in predicting job satisfaction of industrial workers. The study was conducted on a sample of three hundred skilled industrial workers drawn from eight industrial units located in Sonepat, Delhi, and Noida. All the participants were male with a minimum tenure of three years and in the age range of 30 to 52 years. They received the tests measuring occupational and organisational commitment, perceived organizational support, and job satisfaction. The obtained data were treated statically for Pearson's correlation and stepwise multiple regression. Results indicated that job satisfaction correlates highly with affective occupational commitment (r=.53), affective organisational commitment (r=.49), and perceived organizational support (r=.41). Further, job satisfaction correlates .32 and .30 with normative occupational and organisational commitment. Its correlation with continuance component of occupational and organisational commitment is quite low, i.e., .13 and .12, respectively. The stepwise regression analysis located a set of four variables that accounted for 42 percent of variance (R= .65, R2= .42) in the job satisfaction of industrial workers. Among these four variables, affective occupational commitment appeared to be the most potent predictor of job performance with an R2 of .28, followed by affective organisational commitment that contributed an R2 of .12. Two other variables predicting job performance significantly are perceived organizational support and continuance.
Pages: 139-143 C. R. Darolia and Shivani Khanna (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)
Pages: 135-138
Sudhesh N.T. and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala)

Pages: 135-138 Sudhesh N.T. and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala)
Pages: 93-97
K. N. Jayakumar and S. Kadhiravan (Department of Psychology, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu)

Job-insecurity has increased markedly in the developed economies of the world and the effects of it on the individual employee and on organizational outcomes however are controversial. Reviews have suggested that job-insecurity could have both positive as well as negative impact on the performance and hardly there is any literature on citizenship as well as self-regulated behaviour. This research investigated the prevalence of organizational citizenship behaviour and self-regulated behaviour among the software executives at a time of perceived job-insecurity. 73(N) executives responded to the survey, the analysis of data showed that organizational citizenship, self-regulated behaviour was prevalent, and both shared a significant correlation. Age, experience, and self-regulated behavior significantly differentiated organizational citizenship behaviour. The study concludes by highlighting that job-insecurity need not always have a detrimental effect on performance and organizational citizenship behaviour along with self-regulated behaviour could serve as a key to the sustenance in the job.
Pages: 93-97 K. N. Jayakumar and S. Kadhiravan (Department of Psychology, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu)
Pages: 91-92
Anand Kumar (Singhania University, Singhania, Rajsthan)

The present paper review inherent powers of courts in criminal law. Inherent powers are provided in criminal justice system under section 482 of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, this judicial discretion is imparted to the courts to be provide equality in justice delivery system, in one way or the other. Section 482 CrPC has a very wide scope and it's really important for the courts to use it properly and wisely. The High Court can in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction expunge remarks made by it or by a lower court in respect of any conduct of a person or official if it be necessary to do so in the interest of justice. The inherent powers are vested only in the High Court and the courts subordinate to the High Court have no inherent powers. The paper highlights various sections and cases discussing inherent powers of High Court.
Pages: 91-92 Anand Kumar (Singhania University, Singhania, Rajsthan)
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