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Pages: 1900-1902 Now a day's life is very busy and complicated. It has led to physical and mental disorderliness among people. Migraine is one of the common decease which badly influences a large number of population every year in our country. It is a kind of headache in which patients feel pain on one side of their head. They also feel vomiting and nausea. Some researches have shown that migraine creates cognitive distortion in patients. The term Cognitive distortion refers poor thinking regarding self and external world. The main thrust of this research is to know the cognitive effects of migraine in adults and to know the effect of gender and age on cognitive distortion.50 migraineur and 50 non- migraineur adults “mean age35” were selected by purposive sampling method. Migraineurs were selected from different hospitals of Ranchi and non- migraineur adults were selected from Ranchi town. After analysis of data it was found that migraineurs had significantly higher cognitive distortion in comparison to non- migraineurs, gender does not affects the level of cognitive distortion and samples having 31 to 35 age range had low cognitive distortion than 36 to 40 aged samples. |
Pages: 1903-1905 In this study, data has been collected on 200 Humanities and Engineering students of private colleges in Delhi NCR. Pearson correlation has been used for statistical analysis with the help of SPSS. Researchers found in this study are that there is positive correlation between CDMSE and CM among private college students and there is no significant difference between levels of CDMSE and levels of career maturity in male and female students. This study has strong implication in higher education. As students are trained to have career decision making self-efficacy, students will be more career mature and will be ready to choose right career as per their strengths. |
Pages: 1906-1908 The present paper attempts to find out the characteristics related to the behaviour of intellectually disabled children in classroom setting in relation to social maturity. Intellectually disabled children were taken from special schools for the mentally retarded children of Chhattisgarh. Total 60 mentally retarded children were categorized into two groups with high and low on social maturity to find out its effect on classroom behavior. The age of the children were ranging between 7 to 14 years. The Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS) was employed to assess the social maturity of children. After the keen observation of the behavior of children ten specific behavior were identified viz., out of the seat behavior, pulling and hitting behavior, odd mannerism, rebellious behavior, play with other children, self play, working with teaching aid, sitting quietly and observing other, showing caring attitude towards others, showing self made things to others for the study. The result indicated that ten behaviour varied significantly according to the social maturity of subjects. The results were explained in the light of Denny's theory of span theory of intelligence of mental retardation. |
Pages: 1909-1913 This study presents the positive and negative impacts of environment regarding attitudes and behaviours among adolescents. And the study leads to insist on the importance of bringing the resolution in the curriculum to increase environmentalism in society of tribal and non tribal both groups. The study reported attitudes towards environment among tribal and non tribal group so it is essential that individuals somehow cause environmental problems should be aware of their Responsibility in solving these problems non tribal group should remind reminder about for this there should be a practice a successful environmental training at all stages of education. based on the findings of the some researches. It is seen that the best educational stage to provide environmental training efficiency in adolescence. |
Pages: 1914-1918 Religion refers to belief in god, also sometimes related to moral values. Spirituality refers to the deepest values and meanings by which people live. In India religion holds important position in people's lives in various forms, mostly it is practiced in the form of rituals which unknowingly and unconsciously helps in inculcating moral and spiritual values in the masses. In the patraichical family system where male is the head of the family and females are home makers it is observed that females practice rituals more than males and are labeled as more religious than males and on the other hand males are labeled as more spiritual than females. In this light the present study has been undertaken to verify if these differences do exist for young boys and girls too. The sample chosen comprised of 50 boys and 50 girls from Jaipur city. Tools used were Religiosity scale by Bhushan (1971) and Spiritual intelligence scale by (Mittal et al., 2014). The findings are in congruence with the observation, depicting that girls are more religious than boys and boys are more spiritual than girls on the dimensions of meaning in life and transcendental awareness. Whatsoever both religiosity and spirituality are important for well-being. |
Pages: 1919-1921 The study aimed to assess the effects of gender on spirituality and gratitude among college students. “Gratitude is a positively balanced emotion that can rise when another person a benefactor- does something kind for the self (Algoe 2016)”.“Spirituality represents the specialization and detachment of profundity from everyday life into a disembodied, disconnected, symbolic realm that becomes compensatory for an everyday life where immanence is banality (John Landau)”. The present study attempts to assess the effect of gender on spirituality and gratitude among 100 college students (adolescents). The sample was divided into two groups, i.e., 50 males and 50 females randomly selected from different colleges of Chandigarh. T-test was used to study the significance of difference between males and females on spirituality and gratitude. Results indicated that gender had no effect on both spirituality and gratitude among college students. |
Pages: 1922-1924 Privatization of Higher Education is a worldwide phenomenon which is gaining in strength and importance each day. India is no exception to this and its primarily a post 1980 phenomenon. Considering the ever-growing importance of Privatization of Higher Education and the growth of Private Higher Educational Institutions, it is quite obvious that it has created a great impact upon our society. This article is an attempt to study the impact of these Institutions of Higher Learning in today's perspective. |
Pages: 1925-1927 There has been a number of researches which has explored the relationship between personality and suicidal ideation. The present study is a secondary research which has combined the results from various studies and tried to explain the relationship between personality factors and suicidal ideations. The data was collected from different research papers from India and outside. The research papers selected were based on criterion that they are in span of 2012 to 2019. Along with this, it was ensured that paper measured personality on the basis of big five theory. There were total 10 papers reviewed. The conclusion was made in the light of the researches done and the opinions of researcher. |
Pages: 1928-1931 Constitution has especify the principle of secularism that state can not penalize or favour any of the people on religion basis.. Article 25 of Indian Constitution deals that all persons are equally entitled to profess practise and propogate religion.. State may make any law or prevent any existing law to promote brotherhood. Indian Consitution guarantees the freedom to manage religious affaires. Article 27 of the Indian Constitution provides that the institutions for religious charitable purposes, freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion. Article 28 of the Indian Constitution provides that freedom as to attendance at religious worship or other religious purposes in certain educational institutions. Thus the Constitution seeks to promote brotherhood by establishing secular state, making every one equal before the law and avoiding discrimination on ground of religion, caste, language and wealth. Secularism is a very useful in promoting peace and harmony in the country. Articles 25 to 28 of the Indian Constitution provide religious rights to all citizen of India subject to public order ,health and morality. |
Pages: 1932-1934 Crime against Scheduled caste by the upper caste people and positioned population were discriminate the lower position people from ancient era and this thing from the past developed some intolerance in the present society instead of the rules and regulation, constitution to hold equality, no discrimination with respect to caste, colour, sex, and other things. The present paper discusses the changes in the pattern of crime against SCs and some of the recent data which are considered raising the crime rate in the current society. The position of the lower caste and upper caste people concerning the social orders, political status, powers, availability source to the both of the castes in the current situation and access of administration along with universal access to lower caste difference played a significant role. The present paper follows the secondary data to discuss the previous data and along with the current condition of the lower caste people in modern days rural and urban area SCs in India. |
Pages: 1935-1938 With the progress of human civilization, burning of fossil fuel has become inevitable in several human activities and business processes. Release of smoke and corrosive gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide along with other pollutants has become rampant in order to carry out regular economic activities such as production, transportation, distribution at a higher scale to fulfill the need of progressive human society. In number of regions sand and desert dust, flying ashes through chimney, waste burning and deforestation are supplementary contributor of air pollution. The emission of carbon dioxide which is the most common of the green house gases is active to trap heat in the atmosphere which leads to global warming and drastic change in climatic condition. The climate change can result in heat wave situation, extreme weather condition, draught in cultivable land, food supply disruption, etc. When human beings are exposed to polluted air that looms large as silent killer, the short term problems can be sneezing, coughing, eye irritation, headaches and dizziness and in the long term it can lead to, severe respiratory disease such as chronic asthma, respiratory infection, heart ailment, stroke, lung cancer etc. As per WHO report, bad outdoor air caused premature death for an estimated 4.2 million people in 2016 and about 90 percent of them are from low and middle income countries. Cities across the Asia such as Delhi in India, Hengshui in China, Peshawar in Pakistan, Zabol in Iran are distinguished as highly polluted ones. In a startling reality, estimated 91 percent of world population lives in places where air quality supersedes WHO prescribed limits. Countries across the world have started taking action to prevent the deadly menace of air pollution. In India, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Scheme has brought relief to some 37 million women living below the poverty line with free access LPG connection as clean household energy resource. In many cities strict emission norm has been reinforced and process has been initiated to run emission free electric vehicle in greater number. |
Pages: 1939-1942 The construction of affect as considered in dimensional models offers a wide array of possibilities to integrate it with relatively robust constructs. The obvious interaction of affect and cognition is characteristic in nature. Extending the domain of this interaction towards the robust construct of sustained attention, using a sensory and successive vigilance task, the present study examined the influence of affective arousal (high, neutral, & low) on vigilance task performance at a high event rate (30 events/minute)while keeping the overall affective valence as constant. Forty five participants participated in this study. The effectively aroused stimuli (n=100 each for high, neutral & low arousal) were selected from International Affective Picture System (IAPS). A 3(Arousal: low, neutral & high) × 3 (Time period: 10 minutes each) mixed factorial design with repeated measures on the last factor was used. The findings suggest that affective arousal influences hit rate and perceptual sensitivity characteristically. The effect of time period on vigilance task performance confirms the vigilance decrement phenomenon over time. Results further suggest that the reaction time varies differently with specific arousal conditions. The affective arousal conditions influenced the negative affect particularly. Positive affect yielded significant effect on time periods while negative affect interacted with affective arousal conditions over time. |
Pages: 1943-1946 The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the difference of height, weight and hip circumference among the rural and urban Poundra caste population. A cross sectional study method was conducted with the total of 251 adults (148 rural & 103 migrated urban both males & females) were taken from the Poundra caste of rural and urban origin population. Somatometric measurements like height, weight and hip circumference were considered for this present study. From the findings of the present study it can be concluded that there is a significant difference of height, weight and hip circumference between overall male and female. It is observed that the values for urban male weight and hip circumference parameters are significantly greater in the overall population but for hip circumference category the female value is found to be higher than the male. When compared with rural males and urban males' weight and hip circumference is found to be highly significant in urban counterpart but with urban female and rural female the weight and hip circumference parameters were found to be greater in urban females. With the age wise differences, the height, weight and hip circumference were found to be significantly different in female category. In conclusion, it is evident from the results that place of residence had impact on the somatometric characteristics among the migrated population. |
Pages: 1947-1952 The present study aims to find out the extent of awareness about National Trust Act among parents having children with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities at Latur (Maharashtra). The sample for the study consisted of 60 parents having children with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities within age range of 11 to 18 years. The children are studying in jeevanvikas prathisthan's special school for Mental Retardation. Pandurang residential school for Mental Retardation and Savendna School for Cerebral Palsy at Latur district, Maharashtra, were selected for the study. Questionnaire on awareness about National Trust Act among parents developed and validated by the investigator to collect the data. Data analysis was done by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). T-test and one way ANOVA was used to calculate the data, a) to find out the extent of awareness about National Trust Act, b) to compare the extent of awareness about National Trust Act with reference to their age, gender, education and locality of the parents. The results of the study revealed that, a) very few parents are aware about National Trust Act. Further results showed that there was no significant relationship between the extent of awareness and age, gender. But results were found significant difference in the awareness about National Trust Act with respect to parent's educational qualification and locality. |
Pages: 1953-1957 Most of the population or rural area in India depends on agriculture. And the business of agriculture depends on rain water. But because of the uncertainty of rain the production of agriculture is not certain. According to the data given by the center government the total amount of agriculture and related sector in term of GDP is 14% during 2017-18, where more than 51% of Indians population depends on agriculture sector. But there are risk in agriculture all categories of farmers. To reduces the risk of farmers in agriculture central government framed some policies which beneficial for farmers. But the policies drawn up by the center government for the farmer is not fulfill the aim. . And this scheme is not also affected for the farmers. Debt Waiver scheme is one of the central sponsored scheme. Here the question is this policy really beneficial for the farmers. Or is there any other probable solution for the problems being faced by farmers? The main objective of this research paper is to find out whether dept waiver policy is the right solution to farmer problems. |
Pages: 1958-1961 Third gender community in India is an important part of society. Even, law can't deny their existence. We live in 21st century where human rights are assured and preserved for human beings except the third gender. Despite all constitutional guarantees, the Third gender is even denied to have their basic rights like Right to Dignity, Personal Liberty, Education, Freedom of expression, etc. The present research paper deals with the problems, Third gender face in a developing country like India. The study focuses on the continuous denying equality and the continuous social distinction and apathy towards Hijras, who, because of their paradoxical sex identity, are marginalized. These individuals are generally denied their family and other social groups and experience various types of social exclusion. They are most frequently compelled into types of ritualized begging, forced into prostitution because they are refused adequate schooling, health care and job opportunities. The study also covers how the Third gender is excluded from the society and what the law and order is doing to convert that social exclusion into social inclusion. |
Pages: 1962-1966 Teachers' Training Course (B Ed) is perceived as one of the important studies and useful course as it prepares prospective teachers after the training is accomplished successfully. However, over the recent past a considerable amount of declination has been noticed in opting the course across the nation which might be affected by the retardation in employability and inflation in the teaching profession, inception of two years B Ed course and low quality educational institutions. At the same time, the profession is unable to attract the talented youths in its fold. The aim of the study was to assess the Course Effectiveness of B. Ed. degree and to consolidate some key factors which can potentially make the course more demanding and empowering. ANOVA and t-test were used for the analysis. Eight B.Ed. colleges of NCR, Delhi were randomly taken with 238 passed out trained graduates. To collect the data, a Course Effectiveness Scale (CES) on five points was developed. Overall, course effectiveness was found to be low. It is revealed that medium and stream of studies are having impact on effectiveness among the prospective teachers. A need could be speculated to uplift and prepare the study more efficacious and demanding. Based upon suggestions, Five Points Plan (FPP)isconsolidated, which could be an answer to ascend the values and prospectus of the course. There is further scope to deliberate and corroborate the idea by academicians, scholars and educationist. |
Pages: 1967-1972 Banking through electronic channels is cost-effective for the banks. It saves the manpower and infrastructure cost. It is also beneficial for the customers as it offers variety of services at the doorsteps without the inference from bank staff. Even though Private banks were the first to introduce technological-enabled services and challenged public sector banks to upgrade. Despite that, only ATM has picked up with the customers while mobile banking and Internet banking are yet to pick up. The customers have either not bought these services or are not using it. Existing literature reflects that security and trust are major roadblocks in its adoption. But there is also a need to examine the demographic parameters of banking customers like age, education, and income to see their intentions to use SSTs. This study examines the demographic profiles and behavioral intentions of the customers in private sector banks. The study reveals that income and education has a significant effect in case of Internet banking. |
Pages: 1973-1979 The present paper focuses on studying the relationship of grandiose narcissism on attitude towards feminism in males, grandiose narcissism on attitude towards feminism in females, attitude towards feminism and satisfaction romantic relationship in males, and attitude towards feminism and satisfaction romantic relationship in females. The tools used for this study are- Attitude Toward Feminism and the Women's Movement Scale' (Parker, 1994); 'Grandiose Narcissism Scale' (Foster, McCain, Hibberts, Brunell, & Johnson, 2015); and Relationship Assessment Scale (Henrick,1988). The sample comprises 80 young adults (40 males & 40 females) from an university setting within the age range of 18-25 years. The findings of the study establishes a weak positive relationship between grandiose narcissism on attitude towards feminism in males (disproving the hypothesis framed) and a positive relationship between grandiose narcissism on attitude towards feminism in females, positive relationship between attitude towards feminism and satisfaction in romantic relationship in males and negative relationship between attitude towards feminism and satisfaction in romantic relationship in females is seen (in accord with the initially framed hypotheses). |
Pages: 1980-1988 Work-life balance refers to the balance of time and effort, stemming from satisfactory fit between engagement in work and non-work domains of life. This study investigated the relationships among health, perceptions of supervisor's leadership styles, management level, and work-life balance of managers of a large, Indian public sector enterprise operating in the power sector. Data were collected from 100 managers from the corporate and regional offices of the enterprise, encompassing lower, middle and top level management, using EQ MAP(full form) Health Outcomes, adapted Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and self-constructed work-life balance scale. Stepwise multiple regression was used to examine the predictive utility of the variables in explaining variation in work-life balance. Behavioral and emotional health emerged as significant (p<.001) predictors of managers' work-life balance, while physical health, supervisor's leadership behaviors and management level did not emerge as significant predictors. Implications for future research and praxis are discussed. |
Pages: 1989-1992 The departure of a person is a stressful experience, which can lead an individual to experience intense feelings of grief and despair, when prolonged might result in depression. The stage of widowhood brings transitions in the social role for the surviving partner, along with financial strain, loss of an important social support system, poor management, all of which impacts psychological well-being. The main objective of the present systematic investigation is to study the relationship between depression and psychological well-being of widowed individuals. The sample consisted of 100 widowed individuals (50 males & 50 females) from Guwahati (Assam) in the age range of 35-55 years. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. For this , two scales were administered on the subjects, namely, Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, 1996) that studied depression level based on the scores and Ryff's Psychological well-being Scale, which centres its attention on computing various sectors of psychological well-being. The data analysis was done using the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation and the t-test. Results showed that with increasing age, self acceptance increases among both males and females and they gradually adjust to widowhood, however early widows were seen to be more prone to depression and was found to have poorer psychological well-being. A significant negative correlation was also obtained between the variables of depression and psychological well-being. Significant gender difference was also observed on the variables mentioned. The present research threw light on a very important aspect of widowhood and how solitude due to loss of a significant other can lead to consequences like depression and affect the psychological well-being of the widowed individual. The implications of the findings have also been discussed in our paper. |
Pages: 1993-1997 The aim of this study was to assess the difference among Military Personnels' housewives and Civil Professionals' housewives on family environment, life satisfaction and resilience among housewives. Through purposive sampling, the data of military and civilian professional's housewives (n=80) was collected in the age group (mean age=32.4yrs) from the Pune city. The tools used in this research were Family environment scale(Bhatia & chadha,1993), Resilience Scale (Wagnild & Young, 2003) Life satisfaction (Srivastava & Alam Q.G). Results suggests that Military personnel's housewives were low on Cohesion (t=13.58, p<0.01), Expressiveness (t=5.67, p<0.01), Conflicts (t=11.18, p<0.01), Acceptance and caring (t=11.55, p<0.01), Independence (t=6.71, p<0.01), Active-Recreational Orientation (t=9.33, p<0.01), Organization (t=6.54, p<0.01), Control (t=10.93, p<0.01), Life satisfaction (t=3.22, p<0.01), compared to Civil Professional's Housewives. On contrary, Military personnel's were found high on Resilience (t=-3.59, p<0.01) compared to Civil professional's housewives. |
Pages: 1998-2001 The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. As also is the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health as one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of economic or social condition. The pertinent issue here is what proportion of the population has access to quality health care, and what are the options for disease management. Poor health is a significant determiner of overall burden, and data show that life-style factors are a huge risk for impairment and future disabilities due to chronic illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes and/or even cancer. With limited access to modern methods of treatment in the remote areas or un-affordability of healthcare, and a lack of awareness for prevention creates significant challenges. So far the efforts of the government to provide healthcare services relying on the western model of disease and treatment are limited. The latter does not envisage mental and social resources of a patient as factors in effective treatment, nor considers a cultural perspective of illness. There has been resistance to immunization programs, and a lack of awareness for primary prevention to ward off infections or diseases. India, is known for its ancient medical traditions such as Ayurveda and Unani systems that treat an individual's disease in a holistic manner where the physical body is assumed to be integrated to the mental and spiritual aspects. Therefore 'health literacy' becomes an essential tool for maintenance of health and well-being. The present article reiterates use of traditional knowledge systems for making holistic health the target through planned interventions. Skill development should especially focus on youth who can subsequently become peer facilitators for outreach programs and become productive future adults. Strategies for community participation can be implemented at the local level through panchayat systems, or in educational settings if the teacher-as-trainer model is incorporated. The way forward is self-empowerment through healing the mind and the body based on beliefs that are rooted in our culture, such as Yoga, mindfulness based interventions, balanced diet, stress management, self-regulation and an active daily life as part of a ‘Health Literacy' program. |
Pages: 2002-2008 Yoga and meditation are 3,000 year-old practices in India. These have developed for general well-being and healing. Depression and anxiety are among the most common situations that seek treatment with supplemental and alternative therapies such as yoga and meditation. The effectiveness of these interventions is increasing day by day for the treatment of anxiety and depression, especially for mild to moderate levels of disorder severity. There are no adverse effects of yoga and meditation interventions and they are easily available. Studies attest the fact that yoga and meditation enhance performance physiologically and psychologically. These can improve the mental well-being and reduce depression and anxiety. The purpose of this research is to explore the effectiveness of yoga and meditation for treating anxiety and depression. The present research focuses on the exploration of how the patient of depression and anxiety benefit from yoga and meditation, how yoga and meditation is being used to address symptoms of depression and anxiety and the extent to which these ways are effective. The studies used in the present research help in establishing how yoga can improve healthy life style, reduce depression and anxiety in human beings as compared to those who lack yoga and meditation sessions in their routine. Findings from this paper will be used to determine areas of further study and implications for clinical social work practice. |
Pages: 2009-2013 Community Capacity Building is an approach to social and personal development that focuses on understanding and removing the individual, interpersonal, institutional and social obstacles that inhibit people and communities from realizing their developmental goals. Using training as a tool for development, the objective of the present study was to examine the role of a training initiative and its effectiveness in community capacity building. A training workshop titled 'Towards becoming a Professional: A Psychosocial Approach to Self-development and Growth' was developed and delivered to a group of 18 university students and teachers. The resulting knowledge acquisition and skill development were examined at the Reaction and Learning levels of training evaluation. Results indicated positive impact of training at the reaction and learning levels of evaluation. At the reaction level, participants' qualitative remarks indicated knowledge acquisition, relevance of workshop content, experiential learning, and effectiveness of trainers' delivery and personal connection. Quantitative analysis indicated a favorable response towards the objectives, curriculum, trainer, time, length and facilities. At the learning level, students benefitted in developing their understanding of self, skills for lifelong learning and competence building, and tools for building trusting cultures. The benefits of the training to the students, trainers and participating institutions were examined and their implications for community capacity building were discussed. The paper addresses the role of training within a data-driven, action research paradigm for meeting the goals of community capacity building by designing interventions that address multiple levels, i.e. institutions, trainers and students. |