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Pages: 442-445
H. Cecep Zainal Arifin, H. M. Entang and H. Darwis S. Gani (Study Program of Educational Management, Pakuan University, Bogor, Indonesia)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of organizational culture, school-supervision leadership, and motivation as mediating variables towards the Principals' Performance in elementary schools. Participants were Principals of Public Elementary Schools in Bogor District. The sample included 230 respondents and the sampling technique employed in the study was simple random sampling. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire that included measures of organizational culture, school-supervisor's leadership, motivation and work performance. Correlation and regression analysis were conducted which indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational culture, supervisor's leadership, motivation and the principals' performance.

Pages: 442-445H. Cecep Zainal Arifin, H. M. Entang and H. Darwis S. Gani (Study Program…

Pages: 437-441
Ahmad Ali (Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

The research aims to compare monolingual and bilingual in underachievement. Sample included 1048 Syrian children drawn from nine-grade of government schools. The Raven's Progressive Matrix and achievement scores of the previous final examination were used to identify underachievers. The researcher identified 125 underachievers (46 monolingual and 79 bilingual) and 131 overachievers (73 monolinguals and 58 bilingual). Z-test was used to find out significant of difference between the monolingual and bilingual. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in the incidence of underachievement. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in over achievement

Pages: 437-441Ahmad Ali (Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

Pages: 431-436
Shakira Khan and Lekh Raj (School of Business Management & Liberal Arts Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Bajhol, Solan, H.P.)

Direct to Home sector is among the fastest growing industry in our country and had shown growth rate in double digit. Today, we have about 44 million direct to home subscribers and service providers must have to focus on service quality aspects to get competitive advantages. In this study we have made an attempt to identify the dimensions of service quality and also to recognize the reasons for preferring the services. The results indicates that service quality in DTH sectors lies on nine dimension named as assurance, reliability, tangible, empathy, responsiveness, network quality, convenience, price and other factors. The present study also reveals the reasons for preferring direct to home services in the region and identified that most of the respondents preferred the services to watch more channel provided by the direct to home operators followed by reasonable price charged by service providers

Pages: 431-436Shakira Khan and Lekh Raj (School of Business Management & Liberal Arts Shoolini University…

Pages: 427-430
J.S. Bidlan and Anupama Sihag (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)

Burnout has become an unavoidable consequence of occupational stress in almost all the organizational settings and emotional intelligence plays an influential role by regulating the negative emotions of the individuals. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between occupational stress, burnout and emotional intelligence among healthcare professionals. The Occupational Stress Index, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS) and Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Intelligence were administered on a sample of 600 healthcare professionals from the private hospitals of Delhi, NCR. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to obtain the association between occupational stress, burnout and emotional intelligence of the professionals. Results suggest that emotional intelligence has a significant negative relationship with occupational stress and two dimensions of burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization); whereas a positive relationship has been observed with the personal accomplishment dimension of burnout. The results indicates that professionals high on emotional intelligence have the ability to handle emotions of self and others in demanding situations and such professionals are high on personal accomplishment and hence success.

Pages: 427-430J.S. Bidlan and Anupama Sihag (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)

Pages: 423-426
Zahoor Ahmad Lone, Shaha Alam, and Omar Habib Dar (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

The present study aimed to ascertain the relationship between emotional intelligence and adjustment among adolescents. The study involved 150 adolescents (boys=73, girls=77, mean age 17 years). The adjustment scale and emotional intelligence scale were used to collect data. The results indicate that significant positive correlations were obtained between adjustment and an all the dimensions of emotional intelligence, Social awareness, managing emotions, motivating self, empathy and handling relationships. Among all these five dimensions strongest positive correlation coefficient was found between adjustment and handling relationships , a facet of emotional intelligence, and stronger positive in case of managing emotions another facet of emotional intelligence and a good positive correlation coefficient between adjustment and social awareness. Regression analysis revealed that social awareness, empathy and handling relationships and total emotional intelligence significantly predicted adjustment among adolescents. Thus results indicate that emotional intelligence is important factor in predicting adjustment of adolescents.

Pages: 423-426Zahoor Ahmad Lone, Shaha Alam, and Omar Habib Dar (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim…

Pages: 418-422
Surendra Kumar Sia (Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry)

The Congruence of Psychological Contract Questionnaire was developed to assess the level of compatibility in the psychological contracts held by employees. Though there are few tools used for psychological contract, we don't come across with any in Indian context. Therefore a sincere attempt has been made by the researcher to fulfill that objective. Based upon the dimensions outlined through the interview with university employees, items were generated from literature. The split half reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was found out to be .72. Exploratory factor analysis of 34-item pool yielded a 24-item measure with three distinct factors namely congruence in role, congruence in power and congruence in culture.

Pages: 418-422Surendra Kumar Sia (Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry)

Pages: 412-417
Sayeeda Shaheen (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

The present study examined the impact of perfectionism and self-efficacy on psychological distress among adolescents. The sample was comprised of N=200 eleventh grade students (100 boys and 100 girls) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Student responded three scales, the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R), General Self-Efficacy ScaleHindi Version (GSES-H), and PGI Health Questionnaire, for measuring perfectionism, self-efficacy, and psychological distress respectively. Data were analyzed by using t-test, correlation and regression analysis. Result of t-test found that significant difference exist only psychological distress, female adolescents showed more psychological distress as compare to their male counterparts. In correlation, discrepancy of perfectionism was significant positive relationship with psychological distress while negative relationship found between self-efficacy and psychological distress among adolescents. Furthermore, self-efficacy was significant positive relationship with standard and order of perfectionism, while it was negative relationship with discrepancy of perfectionism. Regression analysis found discrepancy of perfectionism and low self-efficacy were significant predictors of psychological distress among adolescents.

Pages: 412-417Sayeeda Shaheen (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

Pages: 407-411
Arief Rachman Badrudin, Ing. H. Soewarto Hardienata and Rita Retnowati (Study Program of Educational Management, Pakuan University, Bogor, West Java Province Indonesia)

This study aimed to examine the phenomena of senior high school teachers' performance in Bogor which is said to be lucking in organizational culture, leadership, and work motivation. The study is quantitative by methodology, using questionnaires as data collection instruments. The population of the study was civil servant high school teachers in Bogor, in a population of 563 a sample of 226 was taken using Slovin's formula, to ensure representativeness of the sample, proportional random sampling technique was applied. The statistical technique applied in processing the primary data obtained from the respondents was path analysis technique using decomposition path model analysis. Decomposition model is used to test the influence of the magnitude indicated by the path coefficient on each path diagram of causal relationships between variables X1, X2 and X3 to X4. With the help of (SPSS version, 17.0) data was processed and descriptive results were obtained from the proposed hypothesis, as well as some statistical parametric test of data normality , significance and linearity test performed prior to hypothesis testing.

Pages: 407-411Arief Rachman Badrudin, Ing. H. Soewarto Hardienata and Rita Retnowati (Study Program of Educational…

Pages: 402-406
Reetinder Brar (Govt. Home Science College, Chandigarh)

The present study was an endeavour to study relationship between Academic stress, Coping strategies, Parental attachment and Social Support of Adolescents. The sample size consisted of 700 adolescents selected randomly. The tools used were Bisht battery of Stress scale ,Ways of Coping Strategies, Inventory of Parent and Peer attachment and Social Support Questionnaire .The results showed that there was significant relationship between variables of Coping Strategies, Parental Attachment and Social Support with Academic Stress.

Pages: 402-406Reetinder Brar (Govt. Home Science College, Chandigarh)

Pages: 396-401
Rituparna Basak and Anjali Ghosh (Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

In the present scenario with the rapid pace of changes in the society teachers are the yardstick who help schools to adjust with these changes. They are dynamic force of the school. On them rests the most crucial role that is failure or the success of the system. Fulfilment of these crucial roles depends on how perfectly and satisfactorily they do their jobs. This satisfaction is influenced by the stages where the teachers belong i.e. career stages and along with this teachers' belief about their ability to perform a specific task i.e. their self-efficacy. The purpose of this study is to explore relationship of job satisfaction with career stages and self-efficacy in different groups of school teachers selected from different school of Kolkata, India. Another objective is to see whether there any demographic variable play any major role on the job satisfaction of the teachers or not. 160 data were obtained from the school teachers of Kolkata. Career Stage Scale developed by McCormick, & Barnett, (2008) and Paula Lester's Teacher job satisfaction questionnaire (1987) were used in the study. Results showed that job satisfaction is significantly and positively correlated with different career stages and self-efficacy. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that job satisfaction can be significantly predicted by self-efficacy and most of the career stages. This study indicated an impact of different career stages on job satisfaction of school teachers and showed teachers in stocktaking stage are highly satisfied with their jobs. This study also highlighted importance of self-efficacy on job satisfaction. Teachers who have high self-efficacy beliefs are highly satisfied with their job. It helps to understand the importance of different demographic factors and the background reasons on job satisfaction of teachers.

Pages: 396-401Rituparna Basak and Anjali Ghosh (Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Pages: 393-395
Neha (HR Executive, Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.)

Lots of organizations still struggle with the global market crisis, therefore these companies are in search of ways to obtain or enhance their competitive advantage more than ever. Utilizing the right strategic tools to increase the organizational chances on the market is a necessity to overcome any possible problems. Competitive advantage can be gained by fostering the organizational resources whereas human capital plays a central role. Social media turns out to be a pre-eminent medium to use as a strategic tool to foster the human capital.

Pages: 393-395Neha (HR Executive, Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.)

Pages: 391-392
Garima Yadav (Department of Psychology, Dronacharya Govt. College, Gurgaon, Haryana)

Individuals put the blame of their life events either on themselves or on others. Mostly for everything positive, one would like to take the credit and for all the wrongdoings elements like fate, luck, others' intentions are put into the picture. In few cases both are posed as the factors of an events' occurrence. Different situations and environments like family, work, play shows different ways an individual deals with these events. It is also a direct contributor of professional choice and the overall personality.

Pages: 391-392Garima Yadav (Department of Psychology, Dronacharya Govt. College, Gurgaon, Haryana)
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