International Journal of Education and Management Studies (IJEMS) is an indexed, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published quarterly by the Indian Association of Health, Research, and Welfare (IAHRW). International Journal of
Education and Management Studies likely aims to promote research and
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methodologies, educational policies, leadership strategies, human resource
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Editor-in-Chief: Sunil Saini, PhD, Editorial Office: 1245/18, Moh. Sainian, Hisar, Haryana, India
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Sunil Saini, PhD
Indian Association of Health, Research and Welfare, Hisar, Haryana, India
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David Bennett, PhD, Charisma University, USA S. C. Kundu, PhD, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar
B.K. Punia, PhD, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar
Mahesh Thakur, PhD, Karve Institute of Social Sciences, Pune
Jaspreet Kaur, PhD, Punjabi University, Patiala
Vandana Punia, PhD, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana
Munish Nagpal, PhD, Deputy Commissioner, Govt of Haryana
Sangeeta Trama, PhD, Punjabi University Patiala
Sandeep Singh, PhD, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana
Editor-in-Chief: Sunil Saini, PhD, Editorial Office: 1245/18, Moh. Sainian, Hisar, Haryana, India
Email: iahrw2019@gmail.com
Phone: 9255442103
Publisher: IAHRW
ISSN: 2231-5632 (print version)
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Frequency: Quarterly
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Panda, T., Lamba, V., Goyal, N., Saini, S., Boora, S., Cruz. (2018). Psychometric Testing in Schools. Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, 8(2), 213–245.
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Slifka, M. K., & Whitton, J. L. (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of Molecular Medicine, doi:10.1007/s001090000086
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O’Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107–123). New York: Springer.
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Abou-Allaban, Y., Dell, M. L., Greenberg, W., Lomax, J., Peteet, J., Torres, M., & Cowell, V. (2006). Religious/spiritual commitments and psychiatric practice. Resource document. American Psychiatric Association.
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Editor-in-Chief: Sunil Saini, PhD, Editorial Office: 1245/18, Moh. Sainian, Hisar, Haryana, India
Email: iahrw2019@gmail.com,
Phone: 9255442103
Publisher: IAHRW
ISSN: 2231-5632 (print version)
ISSN: 2321-3671 (electronic version)
Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing: ProQuest, ProQuest Central, J-Gate, Questia Library, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Library
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Subhash Chander and Vinod Kumari (Department of Sociology, Ch. Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)
Due to labour shortage and lack of farm mechanization, India's agriculture has seen inadequate production and productivity in different regions of the nation. The study was undertaken in Karnal and Sirsa districts of Haryana in 2021, i.e., based on agro climatic zones namely wet and dry, to analyse the farmers' knowledge and adoption of Custom Hiring Centres. Nilokheri block from Karnal and Sirsa block from Sirsa district were selected purposively by involving 60 respondents spread over villages using proportionate random sampling technique. Farmers actively engaged in agricultural operations with special reference to Custom Hiring Centres were selected randomly. It was observed from the field of the study that overwhelming majority of the respondents (86.67%) knew about staffs in custom hiring centres followed by documents needed for registration (80.00%) and specialties of custom hiring centres (71.67%). It was also suggested to ensure that all farmers can afford it, the government should take a great interest in setting fair hiring rates for various types of farm equipment in various parts of the nation. Page: 13-17
Subhash Chander and Vinod Kumari (Department of Sociology, Ch. Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University… |
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Rajesh Mehra (Pt. Chiranji Lal Sharma, Govt. College, Karnal, Haryana)
The aim of the present study was to compare the family relationships and interest pattern of school students in high group and low group based on parental attitudes of acceptance, concentration and avoidance. A sample of 200 boys and girls students from 9th and 10th classes were randomly selected from secondary schools in Kurukshetra (Haryana). For statistical analysis, t-test was used to determine the significance of mean differences between the high and low groups of parental attitudes and interest pattern. Findings show significant differences between high and low groups of parental attitudes on scores of interest patterns, i.e., fine arts, literary sciences, medical, sports and technical fields. It indicates that high acceptance and low avoidance groups of the students showed more interest in the area of medical and science whereas low acceptance and high avoided group showed more interest in the area of fine arts and sports in comparison to their counterparts. Page: 18-21
Rajesh Mehra (Pt. Chiranji Lal Sharma, Govt. College, Karnal, Haryana) |
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Sarishma Sharma1 and Avneet Kaur2 (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab1 and Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Jhanjeri, Mohali, Punjab2)
This research was carried out to study the perception of customers towards online banking services. There are several dynamics affecting the perception of customers towards online banking services. In this study, those factors as well as hurdles faced while using online banking services were studied in detail. The data was collected from 100 respondents with the help of a structured questionnaire. Statistical techniques such as correlation analysis and factor analysis were used for analysing the data. Clustering was done to identify the respondents belonging to various clusters. The results point out that educational qualification and income does not significantly affect online banking intensity. It was also observed that the main purpose of using online banking services was for viewing transaction details, transferring money and checking account balance. The main hurdles while banking online includes the absence of touch and feel, fear of cybercrimes and anticipated fear of impairing with the important information. Factor analysis revealed that there are five factors which are recognised by customers while using online banking services. These are accessibility from home, website related issues, time and cost related issues, lack of personal touch and feel and quality of service. Out of these factors, accessibility from home, website related issues and quality of service significantly affects the satisfaction level of customers towards internet banking services. Page: 22-28
Sarishma Sharma1 and Avneet Kaur2 (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab1 and… |
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Ritu Mahal and Asha Chawla Thakral (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
The purpose of this study was to explore virtual school environment as a correlate of academic achievement among adolescents during COVID-19. The sample for the study comprised of 500 adolescents in the age group of 16-18 years studying in +1 and +2 classes in the Government Senior Secondary Schools of rural and urban areas of Ludhiana and Moga districts of Punjab. Self-structured questionnaire was prepared to assess the virtual school environment of adolescents during COVID-19. The questionnaire had dimensions of the virtual school environment: student-teacher interaction, physical environment, and academic achievement and peer interactions. The results revealed adolescents perceived a high level of student -teacher interaction during virtual classes during COVID-19. Non-significant correlation was found between the virtual school environment and academic achievement. Thus, online classes didn’t affect the academic achievement of adolescents during COVID-19. The significant contribution of student-teacher interaction on academic achievement in adolescent girls was seen indicating student-teacher interaction during virtual class had an impact on the academic achievement of adolescent girls. Peer interactions had an impact on academic achievement of adolescent boys. Page: 29-32
Ritu Mahal and Asha Chawla Thakral (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College… |
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Shruti Gupta and Harpinder Kaur (Department of Family Resource Management, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Polyhouse farming is an advanced method of farming, where farmers give full care to the plants. Polyhouse farming is used to protect crops from the adverse climatic conditions such as: wind, cold, precipitation, extreme temperature, insects and disease. Polyhouse technology protects high value vegetable crops and can be established as a small-scale industry in major vegetable growing areas of our country by progressive farmers especially in semi-urban areas. While doing polyhouse farming, there are several tasks which are considered dangerous for unskilled agricultural workers' health. The tasks are: pesticide crop sprayers, use of biological products, use of hazardous agricultural tools and machinery. The unskilled agricultural workers are vulnerable to various occupational risks due to ignorance and lack of education. Most of the farm workers are hired for planting operations, they might be exposed to pesticides thereby, several skin diseases, poisoning, abdominal pain, nausea, headache, eye problems such as: rashes, inflammation. Most of the time, workers were also involved in several strenuous activities like land preparation, manuring, planting, irrigation, picking, pruning, tying, packing and storage. Working in unsuitable environment, combined with stress to the body from heavy physical activity can be potential to health hazards of workers. Therefore, this study was conducted to study different activities performed and various occupational risks faced by polyhouse workers and suggest the corrective measures to overcome these risks and provide healthy and safe environment for these workers. It was observed that maximum of polyhouse activities were performed in awkward postures like squatting bending or stooping postures resulting strain on lower back, upper arm, neck, feet. It was also observed that respondents usually carried load of 25-30 kg/day of harvested crops, fertilizers, saplings, agriculture tools and equipment. Major occupational risks which were faced by polyhouse workers include: headache, skin allergy, breathing difficulty, slip disk, low back pain, postural discomfort, trip falls and cuts from tool or equipment. After assessment of causes of occupational risk factors faced by polyhouse workers, various measures were suggested to reduce these risks. Page: 33-37
Shruti Gupta and Harpinder Kaur (Department of Family Resource Management, College of Community Science… |
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Ashma Khan1, Manju Dahiya2, and Firoz Khan3 (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Damla, Yamunanagar, Haryana, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, Haryana1, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana2, Department of Geology, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand3)
Population ageing was not a major problem in India as, in terms of demography, it is a young population country but due to the nation's growing ageing, this has been radically changing in recent decades. India has also entered the group of nations that are rapidly ageing due to a changing health landscape and demographic ageing. The issues associated with an aging population are Health problems, inadequate medical treatment facilities and a lack of social and economic support. The present study shows the social participations, Extent and Information seeking behavior and utilization of mass media by geriatrics. The Cross-cultural study was conducted in Hisar and Mewat District of Haryana State. A total of 200 old age pensioner above the age of 65 years were selected randomly. The results indicated in both districts, majority of the geriatrics (91.0% & 90.0% each) had no membership in any organization, indicating poor social participation. Children were the main source of information in Nuh district and friends in Hisar. The extent of information seeking behavior of geriatrics was high for children, medium for relatives and for others it was low in Nuh. On the contrary in Hisar the extent was high for friends, medium for neighbors and children and low for all other sources. The extent of utilization of mass media was high for newspapers, radio and mobile, medium for magazine (at home) and TV and low for magazines, cable facility, computer, laptop and internet facility in Nuh whereas in Hisar the extent of utilization was high for newspapers and mobile phones, medium for magazines, TV and cable facility whereas low for magazines (outside home), computer, laptop and internet facility. Page: 38-43
Ashma Khan1, Manju Dahiya2, and Firoz Khan3 (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Damla, Yamunanagar, Haryana, Chaudhary… |
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Anmol Toor and Tejpreet Kaur Kang (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
The investigation entitled “Mental Health among college students during COVID-19 pandemic: A study of Gender and Locale Differences” aimed to assess the mental health among college students. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 college students in the age range of 19-21 years studying in various undergraduate programmes offered by different rural and urban colleges of Ludhiana district of Punjab. The sample was equally divided between the two genders (250 males & 250 females) and locale (250 rural & 250 urban). The sample was randomly drawn from the selected colleges that were partially operating during the pandemic. A set questionnaire was distributed to each respondent comprising of Mental Health Battery by Singh and Sengupta (2000) and a General Information Sheet. Later, the scoring was done and the results were tabulated. Results revealed that in the overall mental health scores, the male students performed better than the female students, the rural students performed better than the urban students and rural females performed significantly better than that of urban females. Page: 44-52
Anmol Toor and Tejpreet Kaur Kang (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College… |
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Parveen1, Chetna2, Om Prakash Jitarwal3, and Deepak Sangwan4 (Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana1,3, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Basic Science & Humanities, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana2, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture. MHU, Karnal, Haryana4)
Evaluation of different guava is pre-requisties for morpho-physiological traits. In view of this, fifteen guava varieties were evaluated at the Guava Demonstration Centre, Bhuna (Fatehabad) and in the Postgraduate Laboratory of the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the year 2018-19 for both the season i.e. rainy and winter. All varieties under the study were evaluated for quantitative characters and distinct variation was observed. Among the studied varieties, the maximum plant height during both the season i.e. rainy (3.75 m) and winter (4.09 m) and foliage density (number of leaves per running meter) was observed to be maximum (dense) in KG Guava. Page: 53-56
Parveen1, Chetna2, Om Prakash Jitarwal3, and Deepak Sangwan4 (Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture… |
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Anamika (Department of Commerce, DAV PG College, Karnal, Haryana)
With this bibliometric study, we aim to understand the impact of Business Intelligence in the Decision making in businesses. For the last 25 years, business intelligence has been an important area. It uses data analytics to generate key information to support business decision making. In the last decade, the drift of “Big data (BD)”, “Data mining”, “Information analysis”, “competitive analysis”, “data warehouse”, “knowledge management”, “artificial intelligence” has developed and grow into a core part of Business Intelligence systems. Bibliometric techniques are used in this study to examine publications from 1997 to 2022 in Conference papers and Articles journals in Business and Management areas from Web of Science and Scopus sources. Within this study, we have collected databases of Web of Science and Scopus. First, we merged the both database and then cleaned and analysis of results are obtained. The key research concentration is mainly to consider the exceedingly researched topics in this field of effect of Business Intelligence (BI) and Decision making in businesses. Unlike the previous survey, the research methodology used in this study is an amalgamation of bibliometric and thematic analysis, which assisted recognition in generating a comprehensive summary of the researched field. Page: 57-61
Anamika (Department of Commerce, DAV PG College, Karnal, Haryana) |
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Saadgi Malhotra1 and Nayanika Singh2 (Dev Samaj College, Chandigarh1 and Psychology MGSIPA, Sector-26, Chandigarh2)
Human bodies have similar structural compositions. Everyone has the same pair of eyes, ears, and limbs along with one brain and heart. However, the reaction to the same stimulus varies from individual to individual. This can be observed from the unfortunate, but white swan event the Breakout of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic that halted the lives of people from each and every section of society, irrespective of sex, age or other factors. One of the key sectors adversely affected by the pandemic is the education sector. The swift transition to online mode of learning has been a major leap in the training methodology, leaving both teachers and students in dilemma of how to adapt to the new normal. The unprecedented pandemic is an eye-opener for the need to build resilience among learners for strengthening the evolving mode of education. The paper will analyze the concept of resilience, activities & exercises for developing resilience amongst school students aged between 6 to 14 years of age. Page: 62-65
Saadgi Malhotra1 and Nayanika Singh2 (Dev Samaj College, Chandigarh1 and Psychology MGSIPA, Sector-26, Chandigarh2) |
Menstrual Hygiene Practice and Reproductive Morbidity in Rural Married Women of Uttar Pradesh, India Page: 66-71
Lalita K. Gautam and Alok Kumar (Department of Sociology, CCS University Campus, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh)
Women in India silently suffer from gynaecological morbidity. Women consider any morbidity relating to the reproductive system, a matter of shame therefore avoids discussing it with anyone and seeking care for the same is rate. Rural women experience poor health outcomes and have less access to health care than urban women. Objectives: To investigate the awareness, perception, and experiences related to reproductive morbidity. To know the prevalence of gynaecological morbidities and observed treatment-seeking behaviour towards reproductive morbidity. Methodology: Hence, the data was collected from interview schedule technique. A total 300 married women were selected purposive sampling method. Results: It is to found that (46.67%) had average knowledge regarding gynaecological morbidity. majority (60.33%) of the respondents were used old cloths, as they cannot afford to by readymade sanitary napkins/pads. Women surfing from excessive white discharge (37%) women suffer from lower abdominal pain backache vaginal discharge. majority (74.67%) of the respondents reported that they prefer allopathic treatment all type of reproductive disease. largest (56%) of the respondents reported that poverty and lack of transport facility is the main causes for not seeking treatment. This study indicates that a prevalence of gynecologic morbidity among women of reproductive age group, including prevalence of menstrual disorders most of women surfing from abnormal excessive white discharge, lower abdominal pain backache, vaginal discharge RTIs/STIs. Poverty is the main causes women prefer old cloths at the time of menstruation. women preferred allopathic treatment only when they had serious reproductive morbidity. women are unable to take timely treatment due to lack of money and transport facility, less knowledge about the reproductive disease. Page: 66-71
Lalita K. Gautam and Alok Kumar (Department of Sociology, CCS University Campus, Meerut, Uttar… |
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Shivangi Jain and Ramandeep Singh (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Nowadays, consumption of foods that are energy-rich but nutrient-poor has increased the rates of diet-related NCDs all over the world. Food labelling has been recognised globally as the most efficient tool for lowering the risk of diet-related NCDs. Since consumers' attitudes regarding the nutritional aspect of foods are changing quickly, food labelling is gaining attention from governments all over the world as a prominent way to help consumers make healthy and informed choices. In India, the FSSAI has also recognised the need to educate consumers about the nutritional profile of food products. Considering the difficulties encountered by consumers in comprehending complex back-of-package information, it has planned to introduce a front-of-package labelling system that would be simple and effective in guiding consumers toward healthy food choices. This paper discusses several factors affecting food label usage, reasons for reading or not reading food labels, and the requisites of food labelling prescribed by the FSSAI. Further, the concept of front-of-package food labels, along with their different formats and status in India, has also been discussed. It should be noted that improving public health and well-being requires population-wide interventions like providing sufficient nutritional information on food labels to encourage a healthy diet as well as conducting educational campaigns to help consumers better understand food labels. Such interventions will not only protect public health but also uphold human rights and save the healthcare resources of the nation. Page: 72-77
Shivangi Jain and Ramandeep Singh (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab) |
