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
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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
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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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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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Pages: 164-168 Brinda B. Sharma (Centre for Studies in Behavioural Science, Dibrugarh University, Assam) Anxious expectations of rejection in high rejection sensitive individuals serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy due to their maladjusted interpersonal behaviour. Karen Horney's theory of personality contends that the culture in which individuals are reared is primarily responsible for the development of their personality and their resultant adjustment or maladjustment. Rejection Sensitivity (RS) has been theorized to originate from early attachment and is associated with loneliness, over conformity or withdrawal and defensive anxiety etc. in adolescents and adults. Horney also stressed the importance of human relationships and believed that neurotic trends in ones personality not only reinforced each other but also created conflicts. These conflicts encompass contradictory attitudes towards the self and contradictory sets of values. The patchworks generated by inner rifts may explain the behavioural tendencies and outcomes in Rejection Sensitivity. The article explores how Horney's theory accounts for the phenomenological experiences in Rejection Sensitivity and its linkages with empirical results are analyzed. Research on the outcomes in Rejection Sensitivity has revealed that high rejection sensitive individuals exhibit over compliance, aggression and withdrawal which can be explained in light of Horney's basic conflict between the attitudes of “moving towards”, “moving against” and “moving away from” people. However Horney highlighted the hope for psychological salvation and thus the theory is also examined to illuminate the mechanisms of coping in Rejection Sensitivity. A further line of research was suggested involving an understanding of self to counter the negative feedback loop in Rejection Sensitivity. Pages: 164-168
Brinda B. Sharma (Centre for Studies in Behavioural Science, Dibrugarh University, Assam) |
Pages: 161-163 Kiran Maheshwari (Department of Psychology, Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole Univeristy, Jaipur, Rajasthan) Bhanwar Singh (Department of Psychology, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan) We conducted descriptive research, to measuring the gender differences based on social development in primary school children in Jaipur. 320 primary school children participated in this study (160 girls and 160 boys). The Primary school social skills questionnaire has been applied in two forms of girls and boys. 160 girls and 160 boys answered the questionnaire. The result showed from the viewpoint of the children's that there existed significant difference in social skills between boys and girls , the social skills were generally higher in girls. Moreover, the cooperation index was higher in girls whereas, there was no significant difference in attitude towards adults between girls and boys from the viewpoint of the social development. Pages: 161-163
Kiran Maheshwari (Department of Psychology, Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole Univeristy, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Bhanwar Singh (Department… |
Pages: 156-160 Sradhanjali Mishra (Department of Personnel Management and Industrial Relation, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha) In leadership we see morality magnified and the study of human relationship. It includes the personal challenges of authenticity, self interest, self discipline, moral obligations related to justice, duty, competence and common good. The emerging issues in leadership today are the conspicuous absence of human values, positive relationship, trust, faith and human relationships. Leadership is the result of an ability to persuade or direct man, apart from prestige or power that comes from office or external circumstances. Leadership is what leaders do in group. It is to inspire other to undertake some term of purposeful action as determined by leaders. It is an influence of relationship between the leader and follower, who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purpose. It goes without saying that “Managers are people who do things right and Leaders are people who do right things”. This article dwells upon how leaders can create better organizations by initiating a mutually shared ethical culture with their followers or employees. They can generate positive relationships and cohesion develop which ultimately promote organizational culture. It is experienced that organizations scramble as they denigrate the value of their human capital. It is needless to say that companies often forget that it is people who make success or failures. Development of collective ethical culture and human values is the crying need of the time. In this article an humble attempt has been made to highlight the leadership style like selfless work, dedication, commitment, faith etc. The concept of “Work is Worship and Duty is God” has been focused, so that selfless work becomes an essential element in the role of a leader. Mutual love, trust, makes wonder and ultimate goal is the true realization of the almighty immortal soul. The feelings like hatred, anger, jealousy may jeopardize the work culture in an organization. The wisdom of good things, godly love, mental peace, tranquil mentality will uplift the workers from fear psychosis of death. Internalization of peace and work will lead to perfect congruence between thought and action. The perfect congruence between thought and action of a leader makes him an integrated human being. Whatever be his leadership style it gives him a subconscious and integrated thought process by which he is able to function more rationally. There is motivation of workers through inculcation of human values as the former is a matter of human understanding. Moreover it is process of encouraging people to go towards meeting their aspirations and thereby realizing their hopes and dreams. Pages: 156-160
Sradhanjali Mishra (Department of Personnel Management and Industrial Relation, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha) |
Pages: 152-155 Mamta Chhirang (G.S.S.S., Kot (3698), Panchkula, Haryana) Dalbir Singh Saini (District Social Welfare Officer, Hisar, Haryana) The present study is designed to investigate into various aspects of teacher effectiveness and the effect role conflict on it. This study is a Comparative Study of Teacher's Effectiveness among Government and Private Teachers in Relation to Role Conflict. The present study was conducted on a sample of 200 teachers who are working in government and private school and colleges. Age range of teachers in 25-50. The sample was collected from the Hisar, Rohtak and Siwani Districts of State Haryana. Teacher Effectiveness Scale and Role Conflict Scale are used for data collection. In the present study, Mean, S.D., T-test, Pearson Product Moment several basic statistical measures were used for describing and analyzing mass data in a meaningful way. (i) Mean and SDs were worked out to describe the nature of data. (ii) 't' test was applied to test the significance of different groups. (iii) to study the relationship between different variables, co-efficient of correlation was worked out. The findings indicated that Role conflict is negatively correlated with Academic achievement, professional management, social area. Role conflict is positively correlated with emotional aspect, moral aspect, personality. Pages: 152-155
Mamta Chhirang (G.S.S.S., Kot (3698), Panchkula, Haryana)
Dalbir Singh Saini (District Social Welfare Officer, Hisar… |
Pages: 148-151 Preeti Vishwakarma, O.P. Verma and Mitashree Mitra (School of Regional Studies & Research, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh) The learning style is the learner's preferred way of perceiving and responding to the information in a specific learning situation the concept of learning style travel with the learning theories. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intelligence, locale and gender with different learning styles separately. The sample of the study was 100 students of class 10th studying in different government schools of urban and rural areas in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. A Verbal Intelligence test developed by Ojha and Chowdhury (1970) was used to measure the intelligence of the students and the Indian adaptation of Inventory of Learning Process (ILP) developed by Schmeck, Ribich and Ramanaiah (1977) was used to measure the different learning styles. The data were analyzed using product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. Positive correlation was found between different learning styles and intelligence. Multiple regression analysis revealed that there is a significant contribution of intelligence to Methodical Study (MS), Fact Retention (FR) and Elaborative Processing (EP) learning styles. The role of gender and locale was not found significant with any of the learning styles. Pages: 148-151
Preeti Vishwakarma, O.P. Verma and Mitashree Mitra (School of Regional Studies & Research, Pt… |
Pages: 144-147 Sumita Singh (Department of Education, Chhittisgarh Vanijaya Avam Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh) The present study was undertaken to compare the study habit and educational achievement the disabled children ie visually disabled, locomotor disabled & hearing impaired. 600 disabled children of class VI,VII, &VIII special at schools of five district of Chhattisgarh i.e Raipur , Durg , Bastar, Rajnandgaon and Bilaspur were taken .The data was analyzed using correlation. The result of the study revealed that there is an apparent effect of the study habit on educational achievement of disabled children. Pages: 144-147
Sumita Singh (Department of Education, Chhittisgarh Vanijaya Avam Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh) |
Pages: 136-143 Richa Shukla (Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra) Emotional intelligence has been identified as one of the important behavioral constructs considered to be major contributor to success at workplace and well-being of individuals. The major objective of the present study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and well-being among Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers. A total of 300 IRS officers (231 Males and 121 Females) belonging to the three managerial levels (147 junior, 90 middle and 63 senior level) were selected from the all India total cadre strength of around 4000 officers with approximately 8% from each of the three managerial levels. Significant positive correlations were found between all components of emotional intelligence and well-being. Stepwise regression analysis revealed two important factors of emotional intelligence namely self-regulation and social skills as significant predictors of general well-being. Pages: 136-143
Richa Shukla (Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra) |
Pages: 134-138 Sandhya Rani (G.G.S.S.S., Jind, Haryana) Dalbir Singh Saini (District Social Welfare Officer, Hisar, Haryana) This is a study of Organizational Stress in relation to Job Satisfaction and General Health of Professional Women. In the present study an attempt was made to find out what is the effect of organizational stress, job satisfaction and general mental health on professional women's life. In the present investigation, women professionals were the field of study. As per sample for this work, 400 women police personnals from police organization of Haryana state were taken up on the basis of stratified random sampling techniques. In this research three test were administrated individually on professional Women , In this research questionnaire including The Organizational Stress questionnaire developed by Shailendra Singh, The Job Satisfaction scale is developed by O.S. Rathore and The GHQ-12 is developed by David Goldberg. The data of 400 women professionals was analysed by calculating 'coefficient of correlation (r), and 't' test besides the descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation). In order to find out the relationship between organizational stress, job satisfaction and general health , coefficient of correlation was applied. Independent sample 't' test was used to find the significance of difference between the mean scores of between organizational stress, job satisfaction and general health. We have seen the result for interaction to each other independent variables on organizational stress, job satisfaction and general health ,so we can say that most of interaction have significant relationship between organizational stress, job satisfaction and general health. Acc. To findings, the professional women who have high job satisfaction, and low organizational stress they have good general health, and they are less prone to the mental health problems. Pages: 134-138
Sandhya Rani (G.G.S.S.S., Jind, Haryana)
Dalbir Singh Saini (District Social Welfare Officer, Hisar, Haryana) |
Pages: 127-133 Ritika Sharma (Department of Economics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana) Rural Banking plays a significant role in rural economy by catering to the growing needs of rural sector. Rural banking is required to meet the credit needs of rural economy for financing agriculture and allied activities, rural infrastructure and poverty alleviation programme meant for the weaker sections of the rural population. In country like India where large part of population still living in rural sector, development of rural economy is very important and rural banking plays a major role. Rural Banking System in India is comprised of Co-operatives banks, the rural branches of Commercial Banks and Regional Rural Banks. Under this paper performance Regional Rural Bank in Haryana is discussed by taking certain variables such as deposit mobilization, deposit per branch, advances outstanding, advances per branch, total business, productivity per employee, productivity per branch, investment, investment per branch, recovery in per cent, resources mobilization, and profitability performance. Time period of the study is from year 2005-06 to 2012-13 and based on secondary data collected from annual reports of RRBs in Haryana and some measures are suggested that the banks should simplify and standardize their procedure for scrutinizing loan applications and documentation formalities with a view to reducing the number of required documents and all RRBs must adopt a uniform money lending policy, The farmers should be educated for the proper utilization of loans through strong extension machinery so that defaults in recovery can be avoided, The willful defaulters responsible for maintaining overdues should be forced to repay the loans and should be dealt with strictly etc. Pages: 127-133
Ritika Sharma (Department of Economics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana) |
Pages: 123-126 Meenakshi and Mandeep Kaur (Department of Education and Community Services, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab) Life skills are defined as non-academic abilities, knowledge, attitude and behavior that must be learned for success in society. The present study aims to assess the impact of school factors i.e. stream of study, type of school and academic achievement on life skills among school going adolescents. The sample consisted of 200 school going adolescents. Life skills scale (Sharma, 2003) and background information sheet prepared by the investigator herself was used to collect the data. It was found that adolescents from private schools have better life skills than government school adolescents. Science stream school going adolescents possess more life skills than commerce and arts stream school going adolescents. Commerce stream adolescents possess significantly more life skills than arts stream school going adolescents. High achieving school going adolescents possess significantly more life skills than low achieving counterparts. Pages: 123-126
Meenakshi and Mandeep Kaur (Department of Education and Community Services, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab) |
Pages: 119-122 Ahsan Sadiq and B. Rajeswari (Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry) Prominence on organic foods is growing day by day as the awareness for health and environment is snowballing. Organic foods are more common in western countries but it is still in nascent stage in India. This paper attempts to find significant relationship of the predictors (knowledge about organic food, health concern and environmental concerns) on intentions to buy organic food. Structured questionnaire was administered to get responses using mall intercept survey method. A total of 204 responses came. Out of three independent variables under study namely knowledge, health concerns and environmental concerns, only two were found to affect the intention. The value of regression coefficients for environmental concern was lowest (b= 0.075, p>0.05) which means it is not having an impact on intentions directly. Health concern was found to have highest impact on intention (b= .614, p<.05). The study is confined to Pondicherry area only but provides important information about intentions towards organic food. The study would be helpful for mall owners, Retail outlets, super markets and restaurants in identifying the significant predictors of intention to buy organic food of consumers. This paper revisits the applicability of predictors of intention to buy organic food in the proposed model in Indian context. Pages: 119-122
Ahsan Sadiq and B. Rajeswari (Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry) |
Pages: 113-118 Poonam Singh (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) Organizational justice is one of the widely researched areas in Industrial/ Organizational psychology and it refers to the extent to which employees perceive outcomes, procedures and interactions to be fair. Perception of fairness is a crucial concept for employees because it determines their attitudes and behaviours which ultimately have an impact on productivity of the organization. Employees who perceive equality and feel that they are rewarded fairly for their genuine contributions towards organization are satisfied. Employees having satisfaction tend to exert higher level of performance, commitment and reduced retention rates. A lot of work has been done on organizational justice in western countries but studies are lacking in Indian context. The present study is aimed at assessing the perception of organizational justice and its effect on job satisfaction on employees. The sample consists of 50 managerial level employees from various banks of Uttar Pradesh. Perception of justice has been assessed by using questionnaire designed by Neihoof and Moorman (1993) which consists of 20 items. Findings revealed that there is significant and positive relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction. Further, result suggests that organizational justice is strong predictor of job satisfaction. The study is a useful addition in literature that would help the organizations to increase job satisfaction of their employees. Pages: 113-118
Poonam Singh (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) |
