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Page: 196-200
Sherin Joseph and Rosalito De Guzman (The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines)

Depression is a severe mental disorder, often adversely impacts adolescents' cognitive vulnerability, social functioning, family relationships, and academic performance. This study explores qualitatively and thematically recognizes the causes and consequences of depression among adolescent students in Kerala, South India. Braun and Clarke's step-by-step method is used to study the participants' experiences and viewpoints thematically. To gain a more profound knowledge of the lived experiences, in-depth semi-structured interviews (ten participants) and focus group discussions (eight participants) were conducted. The results of this qualitative study demonstrate that adolescents have cognitive issues (distorted belief, disturbing thought), emotional issues (uneasy feelings, emotional tension, depressed mood), and behavioral issues (Inappropriate social behavior, worthlessness in life, a lack of enthusiasm), physical issues (health-related problems, academic and clinical issues, financial & familial issues). The researchers discovered that adolescent's depressive experiences are linked to psychological distress.

Page: 196-200Sherin Joseph and Rosalito De Guzman (The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila…

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Ritu Mittal, Sukhdeep Kaur, Kiranjot Sidhu, and Manjot Kaur (Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

Any educational institution is incomplete without students. Educational institutions are established for the future of students. Student's academic performance can only illuminate in future with higher education and other vocational courses. Home Science emerged as an internship in science, with which students have the opportunity to demonstrate skills in many vocational and career choices. In the current study, an attempt was made to analyze enrollment, retention and progression of Home Science graduates in northern SAUs of India. Survey questionnaires were developed to collect the primary and secondary data so as to elicit structured responses in a quantifiable term. Sample of the study consisted of the Home Science graduates who had completed their B.Sc. during the period 2012-13 to-2016-17 from seven selected SAUs from the northern states of India. The list of the students along with their contact numbers and e-mail ID's was collected from respective SAU's. Data indicated that during five years span, out of admission of 1219 students, 79.08 per cent students passed out while 20.91 per cent dropped before completing their degrees. Students admitted through ICAR-AIEEA (PG) were 2.62 per cent which was very less as compared to 25 per cent seats reserved for ICAR students. Overall, more than one third (38.34%) of the students opted for M.Sc and 18.94 per cent for PhD after completing bachelors in Home Science. In case of employment status it was found that at the time of data collection, more than half (57.29%) of the Home Science graduates were pursuing higher education in various institutions and about 30 per cent were engaged in various professional works in Public as well as private sectors while remaining 13.66 per cent Home Science students were unemployed.

Page: 201-205Ritu Mittal, Sukhdeep Kaur, Kiranjot Sidhu, and Manjot Kaur (Department of Extension Education and…

Page: 206-212
Avinash Kumar, Gopal Chandra Mahakud, and Jaspreet Kaur (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi)

Empowering with skills through the training will empower the employees directly and organization indirectly. In every organization employees are a vital resource and thus training has turn out to be a necessitate by all sectors of organizations. Training is key to sustainability in organizations and training programs helps in to create efficient employees for the work and for this from small to large scale organizations should try to introduce the training programs. To know the status of the training and to suggest the importance of training, the professionals and researchers should know the status of the training and its effectiveness. As in different studies in relation to training in organizations are very negligible, the present study intended to explore the training methods of on-the-job in the organizations are adopting. In the present study, data were collected from 100 working employees (n1=66 men, n2= 34 women) from the Public, private and MNC organizations in Delhi by using purposive random sampling. It is observed that there is difference in on-the-job training method adopted by the public, private and MNC. Public sector is ahead from the private and MNC organizations in giving On-the-job training and enhancing the employee capabilities.

Page: 206-212Avinash Kumar, Gopal Chandra Mahakud, and Jaspreet Kaur (Department of Applied Psychology, University of…

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Umesh L. Bharte and Riya D. Shah (Department of Applied Psychology, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra)

Theory of reasoned action and planned behaviour have been applied and validated in a number of studies related to online shopping. While there exists enormous literature on the topic of online shopping, the phenomenon of online grocery shopping remains a relatively less researched area at least in the Indian context. This study aims to evaluate the predictive relationship of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and willingness to buy grocery online. A convenient sample (n = 150) was used in Mumbai region, and it was restricted to the participants who had engaged in online shopping prior to the study. The self-designed scales were used for all the measures included in the study. The results of multiple regression analysis show that attitudes and subjective norms are found to be significant predictors of buying intention but not the perceived behavioural control. Further, no gender differences were found with respect to willingness to buy grocery online. Discussion of theoretical and practical implications of the study is followed by future lines of enquiry.

Page: 213-218Umesh L. Bharte and Riya D. Shah (Department of Applied Psychology, Mumbai University, Mumbai…

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Monika Rikhi and Sanjana Mehta (Department of Applied Psychology, Sri Aurobindo College (Eve), University of Delhi, Delhi)

Exploratory research was conducted on a sample of 165 young professionals working in the private sector of age 20-30 with 3 -5 years of experience. Due to a diversity of lifestyles, the changing character of the workforce, and the current COVID-19 pandemic situation and the fundamental competitive demands of productivity, we are under increasing pressure to be more flexible with our work schedules. Work flexibility is becoming the new normal for most creative and intellectual employees. Employees with a flexible daily schedule have more variability in terms of work and other informal and formal activities in their life spaces. Several studies claim that there is a correlation between shift schedules and physical and mental health problems, which is often the result of persistent misalignment between the endogenous circadian synchronization system and behavioral cycles such as sleep / wake and fast / feeding. Obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus, mood disorders, depression, cancer, and cognitive decline are likely the result of this disruption of the normal circadian cycle. They have little or no time to socialize while they work all night and catch up on sleep throughout the day. Not spending time with loved ones and engaging in human relationships, according to research, may have a huge impact on their health. In the long term, this subtle isolation might have a negative impact on their mental health.

Page: 219-226Monika Rikhi and Sanjana Mehta (Department of Applied Psychology, Sri Aurobindo College (Eve), University…

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Manjeet Kaur and Pratibha Goyal (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

The purpose of present study is to examine the effect of underemployment on individual, organisation, family and the whole community. Underemployment is an acute form of labor underutilization which negatively affects the whole economy. As compared to unemployment, it has received far less attention than it deserves. But with the outset of the COVID-19, it has become the major concern for most of the countries across the globe. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of underemployment and its implications. The findings reveal that both visible and invisible kinds of underemployment, not only impact the psychological well-being of individuals but they also affect their relationship with family, organisation and the whole society.

Page: 227-231Manjeet Kaur and Pratibha Goyal (School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

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Sunbul Afaq and Roomana N. Siddiqui (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh)

Researches in the area of human development greatly emphasize the direct or indirect role that parents have on their child's development. This study examined how the socio-economic status especially income of the family and education of both father and mother relates to parents' academic pressure. Furthermore, the study also tries to assess gender specific relationships between adolescent's perception of parental pressure and ego virtue of fidelity. A sample of 512 (258 male & 254 female) adolescents completed the questionnaires that measuring perceived parental pressure (separately for father & mother) and ego virtue of fidelity. The result suggests that for both male and female adolescents, perceived academic pressure from father was a significant negative predictor of ego virtue of fidelity. The findings further revealed that male students reported greater pressure to perform academically compared to female students. However, females reported higher levels of ego virtue of fidelity compared to male adolescent students.

Page: 232-236Sunbul Afaq and Roomana N. Siddiqui (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh)

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Arjun Sharma and Shalini Singh (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

High work engagement is associated with the benefits of organization as well as their health and well-being. So, it has become considerably important for the employers as well as also for the organizational/industrial psychologist to emphasize on employee engagement and mental health. The purpose of this study was to look at the influence of employee engagement in the mental health of hospitality sector workers. A correlational design was used in current study to examine the role of employee engagement in mental health of employees of Hospitality sectors. The present study was conducted on 100 Hotel employees (Managerial & non-managerial) of both the gender with the age range of 20 to 60 years. Employee engagement was measured by employee engagement scale by Schaufeli and Bakker (2004) and Psychological Distress Manifestation Scale (PDMS) by Masse, Poulin, Dassa, Lambert, Belair, and Battaglini (1998) was used to assess metal health of employees at work place in present study.The correlational analysis show a significant negative correlation between dimension of employee engagement, e.g., Vigor, Dedication and Absorption and PDMS dimensions (e.g., irritability, anxiety/ depression, social disengagement & self-depreciation). At workplace disengaged workers may experience poor mental health. Findings of the study indicate that low level of employee engagement lead to, mental health complaints at workplace.

Page: 237-240Arjun Sharma and Shalini Singh (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

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Pushpinder Singh (Department of Sociology, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab)

This research paper is a sociological analysis of the prevailing form of folk arts. The focus is at the reasons why the different tribes and castes have given up their ancestral occupations of performing arts. The analysis is being done to understand the different folk arts found in culture of Punjab, the communities who performed these arts, their reasons, importance and relevance. These communities include the art of Baazi (acrobatic feats) of the Baazigars, the spectacles of the Madaris, art of Bengalas, dance of Nats and the imitations of Bhand or Marasis. The major focus is to understand the importance of folk arts through present day phenomena. The proliferation of new recreational activities through new media forced folk art based communities to change their occupations.

Page: 241-243Pushpinder Singh (Department of Sociology, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab)

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Salma Seth (Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi)

The unsatisfactory attempts at qualitatively synthesizing research literature heralded the coming of new strategies for integration-strategies that make the integration of the findings of empirical research itself an empirical task. What is involved then is an “analysis of analysis” or to use the term coined by Glass (1976) “meta-analysis.” Meta-analysis is the statistical summary of the results of all the studies on a particular topic. Studies relevant to a conceptual issue are collected and summary statistics from each study (such as means, correlation, etc.) are reduced to a common metric. This becomes the unit of analysis, and is analysed in quantitative tests. This research paper attempts to take a practical journey into meta-analysis.

Page: 244-249Salma Seth (Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi)

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Sukhminder Kaur, Simarjeet Kaur, and Ramanpreet Kaur (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

People often put off a task because they do not want to do it and eventually they fritter away hours on trivial pursuits while delaying the tasks or assignments they are supposed to perform. This tendency of voluntarily delaying an intended course of action has been considered as a consequence of self-regulation failure and having deleterious outcomes for well-being and performance in different periods of life. Procrastination in academic realm holds many negative outcomes for students like higher stress, lower grades and poor health which further influence their academic and social functioning. The objective of current research was to evaluate the effectiveness of biofeedback training in reducing academic procrastination. It was hypothesized that post intervention scores on procrastination, fear of failure and task aversiveness would be significantly lower as compared with pre intervention scores of experimental group. A pre- post experimental control group design was used. PASS scale was used to identify academic procrastinators who were higher on fear of failure and task aversiveness. Further, participants who were frequent procrastinators and willing to lessen their propensity to delay were randomly assigned to experimental (n=75) and control (n=75) groups. Participants of experimental group were given biofeedback training comprised of eight sessions thrice a week in individual sessions. No training was given to control group participants. At the completion of training sessions, participants of both groups were again assessed on PASS scale. The results showed that biofeedback training was effective in reducing procrastination (F= 133.62), fear of failure (F= 243.89) and task aversiveness (F= 76.75) in participants of experimental group. On the other hand, control group participants did not show any statistical significant change pertaining to procrastination and its contributing factors.

Page: 250-256Sukhminder Kaur, Simarjeet Kaur, and Ramanpreet Kaur (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

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Dinesh Naik1 and Aparna A. Satpute2 (Department of Psychology, NVPM's Arts, Commerce & Science College, Lasalgaon, Nashik, Maharashtra1 and Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra2)

The present study focused on Psychological Well-being as Flourishing in relationship with Goal Orientation among post- graduate students, studying in various non-professional courses in various colleges of Pune city. In the subject- matter of positive psychology, Flourishing has emerged as the advanced level of psychological well-being. As a motivational construct, Goal orientation reflects significant individual differences. Learning Goal Orientation driven individuals focus on exploring innate competencies and so continue exploring opportunities that nourish learning; while Performance Goal Orientation driven individuals are more output-oriented. They are more behind favourable gains and have a tendency to avoid challenges. The sample consisted of 205 students. Overall significant correlations were found between dimensions of flourishing and focused two goal orientations; except between flourishing dimension of engagement and performance goal orientation. Regression analysis revealed learning goal orientation positively predicts psychological well-being as flourishing in significant way among students.

Page: 257-261Dinesh Naik1 and Aparna A. Satpute2 (Department of Psychology, NVPM’s Arts, Commerce & Science…
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