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Pages: 6-8
Nalini Malhotra (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)

Emotional literacy is universally relevant as it can benefit every individual, every organization, and every profession because it has the capacity to transform each person and his or her relationship. Emotional literacy is the ability of people to recognize, understand, handle and appropriately express their own emotions and to recognize, understand and respond appropriately to the expressed emotions of others. Emotional literacy has aspects of both thinking and behaviour with dimensions of personal and social competence. It capitalizes on three important advances in psychological science. The first pertains to shifting views about the importance of emotions. The second advance was the broadening view of what it means to be intelligent and “successful” to a diverse set of mental abilities, including emotional skills. The final advance was the growing need for schools to prevent problematic behavior and to promote prosocial behavior among students. Considerable research shows that promoting social and emotional skills would not only promote better behavior and social interaction but also academic performance and emotionally skilled children and adolescents tend to flourish. The major contribution of emotional literacy is that it redirects the attention of educators and parents to the affective, emotional science of human functioning. The present paper highlighted the relevance of emotional literacy within education and it can be considered as the essential foundation of an inclusive and democratic society. Today the need for emotional literacy is ever increasing, and is one of the best investments that we can make ourselves and our children.
Pages: 6-8 Nalini Malhotra (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)
Pages: 1-5
Diljot Soin (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

The present research intends to compare the male and female managers on the Myers Briggs's personality type indicators in form of sixteen personality types based on Jung's (1921) theory of psychological types and to examine the common occurring personality types and functions. In this regard, Myers Briggs Type Indicator commonly known as MBTI by Myers and McCauley (1985) was used to assess the personality type of the managers. This paper makes contribution by further probing and comparing the dominant and auxiliary functions of the personality types of male and female managers that illustrate the gender similarities and differences. For this purpose a sample of 170 middle-line managers (90 males, 80 females) in the age group of 35-45 years was randomly selected from the sales departments of Private Insurance Companies from the tri-city of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. Firstly, the results indicated that “ESTJ” (extraverted sensing thinking judging) was the most common occurring personality type among effective male and female managers. Secondly, extraverted thinking and introverted sensing emerged as the most common dominant and auxiliary functions respectively among male and female managers. The results revealed that among male managers preference for the dominant function i.e., thinking was greater than auxiliary function i.e., sensing, whereas among female managers preference for the auxiliary function i.e., sensing was greater than the dominant function i.e., thinking. Further, t-test results showed that male managers were found to be significantly higher (t = 6.75, p < 0.01) than female managers on the dominant function of thinking whereas female managers were found to be significantly higher (t = 6.18, p < 0.01) than males on the auxiliary function of sensing.
Pages: 1-5 Diljot Soin (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Pages:121-126
Gurinder Kaur Singh (Department of English, P.G.G.C.G., Sector-11, Chandigarh)

This story of an emotionally distant mother and a daughter trying to find herself transcends cultural boundaries. Queen of Dreams combines the elements that Divakaruni is known for, the Indian American experience and magical realism, in a fresh mix. The tale succeeds on two levels. She effectively takes the reader into an immigrant culture but she also shows the common ground that lies in a world that some would find foreign. The search for identity and a sense of emotional completion is not confined to small corners of the world. It is a dilemma that all readers can understand.
Pages:121-126 Gurinder Kaur Singh (Department of English, P.G.G.C.G., Sector-11, Chandigarh)
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