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Pages: 329-333
Rupali Joshi (Post Doctoral Fellow, Uttrakhand Open University, Haldwani )

Alienation refers to the condition in which a person is cut off from his own real or natural self, from reality and from the society and other fellow beings. Alienation may result in undesirable learner outcomes, academic failure, apathy towards learning process, and a host of psychological and emotional problems as revealed in the available literature. E.I. might be defined as the set of skills people use to read, understand and react effectively to emotional signals by others and oneself. EI assists an individual in handling novel situations by understanding other's and their own emotions about the situation and managing them and hence move towards effective adjustment in life especially under novel situations that a college entrant has to face. The objectives of the study were to assess and compare alienation and E.I. among male and female college students and to explore the relationship between alienation and E.I. among male and female college students. Student Alienation Scale (Sharma, 1988) and Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Mangal & Mangal, 2006) were used. Data was obtained from 101 boys and 100 girls studying in first year and hostel residents. Both boys and girls display similar levels of alienation. No difference existed between boys and girls on any of the areas of E.I. All the areas of E.I. were more highly correlated with alienation among boys than among girls.
Pages: 329-333 Rupali Joshi (Post Doctoral Fellow, Uttrakhand Open University, Haldwani )
Pages: 324-328
Satyananda Panda, Madhuparna Mandal and Rajashree Barman (Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim)

Transition of students from school environment to university environment could cause a psychological, academic and social shock to them, since this educational system has huge differences: the student will face new methods of teaching, academic requirements, type of relations between students and faculties and even relations among students themselves. The study aimed to understand the factors of stress experienced by university students. A qualitative approach has been undertaken to assess students' stress. The sample consisted of 60 students (thirty male and thirty female students) from different streams of Sikkim University were selected. In-depth interview was used to assess the factors of stress among university students. The interview assesses the perceived factors of stress of the university students arising from four dimensions of their academic life. Participants' responds were evaluated and analyzed. Data was analyzed in terms of intrapersonal, interpersonal, academic and environmental factors and it was found that males go through intrapersonal stress more than females' i.e. 21.6% while females go through academic stress more than males', i.e., 16.6%. It was also found that students of science stream suffer from academic factor of stress 18.3% and the students of arts stream suffer from interpersonal factor of stress i.e. 16.6%. This is because the males tend to take stress for the self being and simultaneously for the future, neglecting the academic stress or performance unlike the females. The female students seem to be stressed often for their academic pressure and performance. It is important to reduce stress among the students to strengthen their coping resources to perform well in every mean of catharsis of life. This could be achieved if a counseling centre is provided at the institutions. Sometimes, a general counseling session often helps to get rid of the sufferings. Besides, extra-curricular activities can also help to reduce stress levels among the students simultaneously with the studies.
Pages: 324-328 Satyananda Panda, Madhuparna Mandal and Rajashree Barman (Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim)
Pages: 319-323
Ritu and Madhu Anand (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Since adolescence is a most highlighted age group of present era and may be a particularly critical age for attachment relations. In today's high - tech. globalized society, modernity in families' increases day by day and the parent adolescent's relationships shift and others get importance, attachment patterns may change as well. Considering the importance of modernity in our society there is an urgent need to focus on the effect of parental modernity on adolescent's attachment to mother and father. Hence, the present study aims to investigate the effect of parental modernity on attachment pattern of adolescents. A total of 200 parents (including 100 fathers and 100 mothers) along with their 100 adolescent children were selected randomly. Individual Modernity Scale was administered on parents and Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment was administered on adolescents. The analysis reveals that adolescents have higher attachment security to traditional mother than to traditional father. Also, they have higher attachment security to modern mother than to modern father. Adolescents of modern parents reports greater attachment security to mother than adolescents of traditional parents. However, an insignificant difference between two groups i.e. adolescents of traditional parents and adolescents of modern parents, on attachment with father has been observed.
Pages: 319-323 Ritu and Madhu Anand (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Pages: 315-318
Sadananda Reddy (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru)
P. D. V. Vyas (Master of social work student, Nalgonda, TS.)
Nidhi Mehta (PhD Scholar, RINPAS, Ranchi)
Prasad K. (PhD Scholar, NIMHAN, Bengaluru)

Emotional intelligence and self esteem can play a significant role in education among students; this might have an effect or impact to influence students' in studies, it's indeed to develop emotional intelligence and self esteem in therapeutic process among students to understand their emotional relations and personal judgment of worthiness. Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to assess and understand the relationships between emotional intelligence and self esteem among undergraduate students. The study was taken in the NG College (autonomous), affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Nalgonda, Telangana, India. Students who were studying graduation final year were selected for this study. The researcher has used Socio Demographic details, “Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test” (SSEIT; Schutte, et al., 1998) and The Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES, 1965); Ethical issues have been followed while conducting the study. Present study suggests that undergraduate students were having high level of emotional intelligence where as self esteem was moderate level, hence its urge to develop self esteem among under graduates students. Teachers, lecturers, professors, UGC and University levels need to encourage positive coping strategies, career oriented counselling, competitive spirit and group discussions /therapies to help the students in developing self esteem.
Pages: 315-318 Sadananda Reddy (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru) P. D. V. Vyas (Master of…
Pages: 310-314
Satish Kumar (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Teenu Nandal (School Lecturer in Psychology, Education Department, Haryana)

The concept of 'health' implies both biological/physical as well as psychological factors contributing to health. Health and wellbeing of individual cannot be achieved without experiencing the positive health states while facing complexity of problems. Many theories have encouraged the idea that positive emotions are good for individual's health. Existing observed researches are providing evidence for this subjective wisdom. Research uses the positive emotions as an outline to reveal that positive emotions add to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping pathways. The growth of positive psychology as an increasingly influential force in theory and research reflects increased scientific interest in the relation to positive health states and corresponding potential as intervention for promoting positive emotions, thoughts, and understandings to improve health and well-being. It motivates individual to live a high-quality life. Such life comes from the assumption that holds the greatest value in life. It deals with the factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. Positive psychologists agree that one must live a cheerful, engaged, and meaningful life. Such a life leads to health and wellbeing of all the aspect of life. Faith is a powerful force in the lives of individuals and communities worldwide. Positive forces like forgiveness and faith play an significant role in life. Research supports that positive states serve a buffering function against the problems, stressors, and disorders of life. The present study sought to explore the relationship between positive health states like Forgiveness and Faith their relationship with health.
Pages: 310-314 Satish Kumar (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana) Teenu Nandal (School Lecturer in…
Pages: 305-309
Vikas Yadav (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Consciousness is regarded as important topic of study in both the western & eastern perspective. The integral role of the consciousness in giving rise to different mental phenomenon, make it an important research topic in psychology & allied disciplines. However, there is large difference in the way the consciousness is conceptualized in the eastern & western perspective. This paper aims to achieve three aims: firstly, providing a theoretical explanation of the consciousness as it is conceptualized in the two traditions, secondly, it tries to provide a critique of western & eastern conceptualization of consciousness. And finally, it tries to synthesize these two approaches, in order to providing a more holistic assessment of the consciousness, which would further enrich our understanding about this phenomenon.
Pages: 305-309 Vikas Yadav (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Pages: 302-304
Alka (N. M. P. G. College, Hansi, Hisar, Haryana)
Nov Rattan Sharma (Department of Psychology, M. D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Adolescence is a age, when so many physical and mental changes are occurred in the their life. These changes are effect their physical structure, behavior, relationship and many aspects of the adolescent life. These revolutionary changes challenge their growth, personality and develop new concepts. Health is the important dimension of the adolescence. The adolescence who are not physically health, are not able to adjust with the environment and other aspects of life. This study was conducted on 300 students (150 Boys and 150 Girls) studying in different grade from 7th to 12th classes of Bhiwani city school. These participants tested on Health Practices Questioonaire. The findings reported that the concern about health starts from the different age group.
Pages: 302-304 Alka (N. M. P. G. College, Hansi, Hisar, Haryana) Nov Rattan Sharma (Department of Psychology…
Pages: 298-301
Chanderkant Gorsy and Neeraj Panwar (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Anindividual's sense of competence or skill and perceivedcapability to deal effectively with various situationsis termed as self-confidence. Whereas, peer, or friend, relationships are uniquely voluntary relationships, and ifpersonal benefits are distributed, reciprocity is expected, rules are monitored and revised as necessary, and commitment grows over time. Both self-confidence and satisfactory peer relationships are quite necessary for the adolescents in the present scenario. The deficiency in the interpersonal realm which further affects the self-confidence of an individual has could result into loneliness, and thereby individual's academic performance declines. This decline in academic performance further hampers their skills (personal/social) and abilities which are necessary for decision making about selecting a profession/professional course. Therefore, it was considered worthwhile to conduct a study on adolescents to investigate relationship among self-confidence, peer-relations, and loneliness. Standardized scales were administered on a sample of N=111, of high schoolstudents (both males and females; mean age=14.39 years) from aKendriyaVidyalaya located in Ambala Cantt for which incidental sampling was done.Correlational design was postulated for the present study and the results revealed that self-confidence in various aspects at adolescent age such as academic performance, talking in public, social participation, are positively inter-related and also with peer relationships (i.e., relationships with friends and social groups). Whereas, adolescents those who are experiencing dissatisfactory friendship do not have healthy peer-relationship at all. In sum, self-confidence and peer-relationships plays important role towards the growth of satisfactory relationships among adolescents, thereby loneliness could be avoided or one can overcome from such life threatening experiences.
Pages: 298-301 Chanderkant Gorsy and Neeraj Panwar (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Pages: 296-297
Roopwant Kour (Teacher, Govt . Middle School, Rahya, Samba, Jammu & Kashmir)

Every child is born with inborn traits like instinct, motives, drives, urges and tendencies as well as with other abilities like intelligence, creativity, curiosity like mental abilities, verbal abilities, mechanical abilities, spatial abilities, reasoning abilities inductive and deductive ability and soon. It has been seen that the original behaviour of the child is the instinctive behaviour which is unsocial like the animal behaviour because instincts are common in both man and animal. It has been seen that original or instinctive behaviour of the child includes destructiveness, aggressiveness, anger, selfishness, sex, assertiveness etc. Thus the process of education which contributes to modify or convert the original/instinctive/unsocial or animal behaviour of the child into the human behaviour or socially desirable behaviour as well as to develop the other in born abilities of the child for the harmonious and complete development of the personality of the child may be known as the positive education. The positive education is a child centered education which provides the child with favourable environment, guidance and training to the child for the development of his personality. Positive education is indispensable for developing the creativity among the students for which positive teacher also plays equally important role for developing the creativity and other abilities among the students. A positive teacher is he who understands the individual differences among the students and applies psychological methods of teaching suitable to the age, interests, needs and abilities of different types of students in the class. He is an ideal of perfection and serves as a source of inspiration for the students.
Pages: 296-297 Roopwant Kour (Teacher, Govt . Middle School, Rahya, Samba, Jammu & Kashmir)
Pages: 292-295
Mehdi Andami Meyji (Department of Behavioral Sciences (Preschool Education), Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran )
Hossein Aflakifard (Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian, University, Iran)
Khosro Mahmodi (Department of Persian Language and Literature, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

Applications that are quasi-experimental study using two test and control groups with pretest and posttest And to evaluate the effectiveness of creative displays on the development of social skills and creativity of the students in the academic year 2013-2014 Done. The study population included all students in the fifth grade of elementary schools in Marvdasht. 60 students as sample using two-stage cluster sampling method were selected. Torrance measures included measures of creativity and social skills Wineland, the validity and reliability of the estimate were used. After selecting all subjects, first they were divided randomly into two groups and then by pre-test were measured. After the intervention, the experimental group, both groups were evaluated by the test. Data from studies using inferential statistics (Covariance analysis and independent t-test) were analyzed using SPSS software and the results showed: (1) creative display of creativity and its dimensions (expansion, flexibility flexibility, fluidity and initiative) has a significant impact on students. 2. Creative Drama significant impact on the development of social skills of students.
Pages: 292-295 Mehdi Andami Meyji (Department of Behavioral Sciences (Preschool Education), Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University…
Pages: 288-291
Saumya Mahajan (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh)
Ritu Sharma (Department of Psychology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh)

Engaged employees are those who are having passion towards their work, great sense towards their organization and drive innovation to further forward in organization. Leaders through their skills influence employees and motivate them for better performance, entailing this the present study seeks to investigate how Effective leadership leads to Employee Engagement. To gain insight into how to enhance employee engagement levels, this study investigated the relationship between employee engagement and six perceived leadership characterstics- Interpersonal Relations, Intellectual Operations, Behavioral and Emotional Stability, Ethical and Moral Strength, Adequacy of Communication, and Operations as a citizen. A sample of 60 school teachers in India residing in lucknow, completed the questionnaire survey, to collect the data Leadership Effectiveness Scale devised by Dr. Haseen Taj and Gallup's Q12 Questionnaire was employed which was analysed by using Mean, Standard Deviation, and Pearson Correlation. Overall, the results suggest that there is a significant correlation between Employee Engagement and the six Leadership Characterstics. Engaged employees also expressed disproportionately positive views of facets of the organization over which their leaders have significant control. In other words, organizations with leaders who help ensure, for example, that employee opinions count or that employees understand what is expected of them have a higher number of engaged employees than organizations without such leaders.
Pages: 288-291 Saumya Mahajan (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh) Ritu Sharma…
Pages: 283-287
Hardeep (Department of Commerce, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Suresh Bhaker and Vijender Pal Saini (HSB, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Appraisal of the employees is undoubtedly necessity at a continuing basis during the working life. It is very desirable, useful and constantly being done. The HR department is responsible for fixing the qualities and characteristics to be rated in determining appraisal of employees. This research examines the effectiveness of Performance Appraisal System for the employees working in ceramic tiles industry. In this research, top six private ceramic tiles companies namely H R Jhonsons, Kajaria, Somany, Nitco, Asian, and ORIENT are covered. A total of 300 respondents are approached. Further, to examine the difference in the mean values Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is employed. Statistical calculations are made with the help of Microsoft Word and SPSS software package.
Pages: 283-287 Hardeep (Department of Commerce, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana) Suresh Bhaker and Vijender Pal Saini (HSB…
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