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Pages: 1991-2001 Even after the internet made the world a global village, cultural differences are still quite prevalent. Henceforth, it is very important to be aware of these cultural differences to have pacific and respectable cross-border relations. The present study aimed to explore the effects of culture on job satisfaction, work motivation, work engagement, affect balance, emotional intelligence and happiness. The study also examined the interrelationship between job satisfaction, work motivation, work engagement, affect balance, emotional intelligence and happiness. The significant predictor variables of happiness were also discovered. The sample comprised of 110 employees of Nestle. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967); The Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale (Tremblay et al., 1985-2000); Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003); Affect Balance Scale (Bradburn, 1969); Assessing Emotions Scale (Schutte, 1998); and Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) were administered. The results depicted significant positive correlations among job satisfaction, work motivation, work engagement and emotional intelligence. Affect balance was also found to have significant positive correlations with work motivation, work engagement, emotional intelligence and happiness. Significant differences were reported in job satisfaction and work engagement between the Indian and the Swiss employees. Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that work motivation and affect balance were the significant predictors of happiness. |
Pages: 2002-2008 The problem of talent management and committed employees has always been there in the core of organizational setup as the area of thrust in order to place themselves into the uncertain and cutthroat labor market. For becoming a preferred employer among the prospective employees and potential employees and for sustainable human resource management, organizations are valuing the importance of their employer brand value. Developing the employer branding attraction value among the potential and existing employees are now becoming the strategic tool for managing human resources and for sustainable organizational development. Due to the intensifying "war for talent", organizations are bound for exploring the ways and practices to position themselves as attractive employers. Purposely this research aims to investigate the interrelationships among the three behavioral constructs of perceived organizational talent management, employer branding attraction value, and organizational commitment. Accordingly, the intense literature review has been done to find out the conceptual and theoretical background that delineates the possible interactions among these constructs and explores the gap for further research. It was evidenced that employee feels attractive for organizations when they found themselves associated with jobs that are attractive, having growth and development opportunities and fulfills the needs and wants of them. Due to these factors presents in the job employees in return, reciprocate commitment in order to satisfy obligations of organizational membership and management efforts. However much literature supports found to be advocating the linked associations among the variables namely talent management, employer branding attraction value, and organizational commitment, but empirical negligence has been identified. Impact of employer branding internally is so far neglected among the practitioners and academicians, very few studies have been found focusing about its impact on the current workforce and further on their work attitude. |
Pages: 2009-2013 As the title suggests, my research questions border on skepticism towards the notion of the so called 'hard problem' of consciousness first introduced by Chalmers. Based on this very assumption that the hard problem actually exists, Francisco Varela has whipped up a whole new branch of science called Neurophenomenology. Varela has tried to marry the fields of phenomenology and cognitive science, again on the very basic assumption that consciousness exists as an independent cognitive modality and by extension a methodology for its so called rigorous description (called phenomenology) is needed. The reason why these basic assumptions are constantly questioned by the scientific community is that consciousness, even as a mere entity (let alone a cognitive modality), is pathetically ill-defined. To put it bluntly, all the big names in the field of consciousness studies have described consciousness in very ambiguous terms and oftentimes using contradictory arguments leading to a half-baked job when it comes to actually defining it. For example, Chalmers repeatedly makes the statement that the description of consciousness entails “what it is like” to experience something with hardly any satisfactory explanation or extrapolation on it. “What it is like” isn't really all that convincing a definition, especially when the validity of entire branches of science hangs on this very definition. In sum, Phenomenologists have a certain set of jargon and psychologists/neuroscientists/cognitive scientists have another set. Varela tries to draw links between the two demarcated sets and thus coins his term 'Neurophenomenology'. My contention is that the two sets of jargon are just corresponding synonyms and therefore there is simply no need to draw links between the two. Can we can do away with the terminology or concept of consciousness itself and explain it with jargon borrowed from cognitive science to make life easier for everyone? Or is such a proposition far too over-simplistic and naïve? |
Pages: 2014-2016 World Health Organization's (WHO, 1948) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. In any organization employees' psychological and physical health is an important factor for their work performance and productivity. Due to lack of studies about non-teaching employee's general health, this study is aimed to assess the general health among university non-teaching staff. For this purpose 174 non-teaching staff were selected (155 males & 19 females) within the age of 25-59 years. The Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used in this study. In the present study obtained scores were analyzed with help of t-test. The findings did not revealed a significant difference between male and female employees on the General Health Questionnaire. But the findings depicted a difference between male and female employees on somatic symptoms, anxiety, depression and social dysfunction. |
Pages: 2017-2020 In the present research an attempt was made to study the relationship between stress and quality of life among old aged college teachers. The study was carried on by formulating hypotheses that (a) - There would be significant difference between stress and quality of life among older college teachers (b) - The older Male and Female college teacher would differ significantly in terms of their level of stress (c) - The older Male and Female college teacher would differ significantly in terms of their quality of life (d) - Stress and quality of life would be negatively correlated. For empirical verification of these four hypotheses a study was conducted on 100 old aged college teachers (50 Male & 50 Female) from different degree colleges of Patna by employing incidental sampling technique. Their age ranged from 60 to 65 years. Singh personal stress source inventory (SPSSI) developed by Singh and Kumari was employed for measuring level of stress among old aged college teachers. WHOQOL-BREF was applied for measuring quality of life among older college teachers. For the analysis of the obtained scores t-ratio and co-efficient of correlation were computed. The result confirmed all the hypotheses. The findings on the whole indicated that there is significant difference between stress and quality of life of old aged college teachers. Negative correlation between stress and quality of life was also observed by the researcher. The findings of the present research reveal that level of stress plays an important role in determining the quality of life among old aged college teachers. Stress, coupled with other physical and mental problems, gives rise to feelings of depression in the elderly persons and damages their quality of life. |
Pages: 2021-2024 Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a well recognized public health issue. Intimate partner violence is actual or threatened physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional abuse by a current or former spouse (including common-law spouse), dating partner, or boyfriend or girlfriend. The dependence hypothesis suggests that when men have higher levels of education, bring in more resources, make more money, and dominate decision making in the home, women are more likely to be abused because they are dependent on their husbands . Hence we want to study that whether the earning affect the mental health of women's of IPV. The main objective was to study the Statistical Comparison with Reference to Depression, Anxiety and PTSD between Single and Double Earning Groups on the women's of IPV. The sample consisted of 60 Women's of IPV. Tests used were Beck's Depression Inventory (1996); The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (1988); and The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (1993). On the basis of present study it can be concluded that there is a significant difference found on the level of Depression, Anxiety and PTSD on women's of IPV. |
Pages: 2025-2031 The green planet and only home to human habitation is getting warmer and hotter in an irreversible manner with each passing day, and weather patterns of different climes are substantially changing due to anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Notwithstanding this, the general public is unaware of what actually causes global warming and what could its consequences. It has taken decades for climate change to enter the public discourse in even the most superficial manner. Periodic surveys, researches and assessments by UN have proven that the global warming-induced changes in world's climate are increasing day by day and it has assumed catastrophic proportions. Despite its overriding consequences, climate change is also the least understood problem amongst the masses. If left unchecked, climate change is expected to usher in disaster on many human and natural systems-including increased floods, droughts and extreme weather events, lesser productivity from large areas of existing farmland, migration due to climatic changes and conflict over dwindling resources. Media exposure has a direct impact on the knowledge and perception of climate change among the public. This study aims to explore the understanding of the perceptions of educated youths and role of mass media in climate change awareness and mitigation engagement in Tripura, India. The study also endeavours to suggest the possible measures of mitigating of the problem of climate change. |
Pages: 2032-2037 The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the mediation effect of social support on the relationship between cultural intelligence and acculturative stress. Following the incidental cum random sampling technique 200 students were drawn from different institution at Warangal city, to serve as participants in the present research work. Acculturative stress was measured by 16 item acculturative stress scale (Khan & Hasan, 2017). Social support was measured by social support scale for within country migrated students (Khan & Hasan, 2017). Cultural intelligence was measured by Cultural intelligence was measured by 20- item Cultural Intelligence Scale (Ang et al., 2007). Mediation effect was worked out by structural equation model (SEM). Result of the study indicated that total effect of cultural intelligence on acculturative stress reduced when social support was included in model. The mediation model showed statistical good model fit. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the mediation effect of social support on the relationship between cultural intelligence and acculturative stress. |
Pages: 2038-2044 The unemployment indicators for Jammu & Kashmir are higher than the national average. Additionally, the female unemployment rates are much higher than that of males. The data on unemployment further indicates a worsening situation in case of educated unemployment, again more so in case of educated females (NSSO, 68th Round). This paper discusses in detail the convergences between education and employment in the form of a conceptual framework. Further, it studies the gender based enrollments in higher education to assess the nature of the potential entrants in the labour market. Unfortunately, the gender disaggregated data has not been considered so far in formulating a comprehensive employment policy. The unemployment problem has been a constant concern for successive governments and there is need of proactive measures to address this grave social and economic issue. This paper concludes that gender disaggregated data for education and unemployment will go a long way in informing the policy and addressing this concern. |
Pages: 2045-2048 In today's era every individual wants to achieve everything. They do everything for their dreams. Sometimes they are too indulge in their dreams they forgot about themselves. Due to this they become depressed. For this they sometime used medicine and sometimes they need behavioural therapy. Therefore the present case study is an effort to know the effect of Cognitive Behaviour therapy on depression. This is a single case study. For diagnosis of depression, adjustment level personality type Beck depression Inventory, Bell Adjustment Inventory and Big Five Inventory was used. For treatment of the subject Cognitive Behaviour therapy was used. The results reveals that Cognitive Behaviour therapy is effective in treatment of depression. |
Pages: 2049-2051 Store atmospherics plays a very important role in effecting customer behavior and today it has received rising attention from retailers, researchers and practitioners. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of concept of atmospheric and its dimensions. The aim of this paper is to throw light on importance and benefits of factors that influence customer purchase intention. These atmospheric factors have multisensory approach. Retail stores focuses on making such a attractive store environment which not only attracts new customers but also helps in retaining the existing one by using variety of features. |
Pages: 2052-2055 Present study is an attempt to explore life satisfaction among teachers in different work setups. This research paper focuses on the life satisfaction among government and private Intermediate college school teachers. For the same, sample of 250 government and 250 private school teachers was taken into consideration. Scale to measure life satisfaction used in this study is developed by the both the authors which measures life satisfaction on seven dimensions these are; health, family and social support, financial stress, joyful living, everyday life pleasure, meaningful life and happy and optimistic. Critical Ratio of life satisfaction score was calculated between government and private teachers and it was found that there is no significant difference between these two groups. |
Pages: 2056-2060 Morality involves right or wrong actions. Moral judgment is defined as the evaluation of one's action pertaining to the existing norms of the society for example not stealing and being honest citizen. Most theorists advocate that cognitive processing plays an important role in moral decision making (e.g., Greene, 2009; Haidt & Joseph, 2007; Lapsley, 2010; Kohlberg, 1971). Psychological research on moral judgment for a long time has been dominated by the moral development approach that studies the maturation of moral principles and role of conscious and rational reasoning processes. Opposite to this contemporary models emphasize the role of unconscious and intuitive processes in moral judgment (Haidt, 2007). These social intuitionist models suggest that fast and automatic intuitions are the chief source of moral judgments whereas the conscious deliberations are used as justifications for the judgment which has already been given. This review is an attempt to understand various perspectives on moral judgement. |
Pages: 2061-2066 The present investigation aims to explore the link between family resilience as measured by Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) and parents/caregiver's resilience as measured by Connor-Davidson's Resilience (CD-RISC) in relation to the child's gender who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper will address the area of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Resilience in Indian context. The research specifically focuses on Indian research. It is expected that the higher the individual resilience of the caregiver/parent the higher will be the family resilience, irrespective of the gender or age of the child with ASD. |
Pages: 2067-2069 Education is the backbone of any nation and the success and achievement of students is considered as the backbone of the education system. Good mental health and well-being makes a great contribution to the overall health and well-being of individuals and communities. It influences social and economic outcomes for individuals and also affecting lives of many people in our community, their families and friends. The negative impacts of poor mental health on individuals, families and the wider community can be significant. In recent times lot of efforts were put in to see the impact of emotional intelligence on one's mental health. Emotional intelligence consists of different sets of abilities that a person uses to understand, regulate, and make use of his own emotions. Emotional regulation, understanding and utilization reflect the capability of a person to manage his emotions. It is imperative that the goals of education cannot be met unless students have sound mental health. An effort is made in the present study to study the correlation between the emotional intelligence and mental health of university students and how economic status of the students contributes to this dimension. The emotional intelligence and mental health scores of 150 (79 male & 71 female) post graduate students of Periyar University, Salem, India were subjected to correlation analysis and t-test. The results were discussed in the light of the obtained values. |
Pages: 2075-2077 Marriage is a bag full of personal and social responsibilities for women in Indian context. Job is an accumulative burden on females because of highly gendered nature of domestic work in Indian families. Managing multiple roles may have an impact on the Mental Well Being of females. The present study compared the Mental Well being of working married to non working married and working unmarried to non working unmarried Indian females of age range 20-45 years using t-test as method of analysis. Previous studies provided evidence that change in job pattern may result in better Mental Health. Results of the present study also found that Mental Well Being of working females is better than non working in both married and unmarried conditions. |
Pages: 2078-2085 Food is a basic requirement for every individual's existence. But the utility of food should not just get limited up to providing a mere survival to the mankind; rather it should also ensure a healthier and qualitative life to all. Prior to having the access to clothing, shelter, education or health care, people need to satisfy their hunger and feel secure for their future meals. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2) of ending hunger, poverty and malnutrition by the end of 2030 is a foremost aspiration for many countries. But, supplying nutritious food in a sufficient quantity to the ever-increasing world population in a sustainable manner is still a major challenge. Globally, a segment of society is facing problem of poverty coinciding with food insecurity, thereby leading to hunger and starvation. The paper highlights poverty and food insecurity problems within the framework of population growth. The paper argues that it is essential to pay attention on population growth, poverty and food insecurity issues globally and also, in particular to our nation's standpoint, with the aim of realizing the Sustainable Development Goals. |
Pages: 2086-2091 The emerging trend of social media usage among youth is easily visible in our society. There are a variety of social media platform that has stimulated the thoughts of young generation more eloquently. The contribution and participation of social media by the youth is no doubt different. The content of social media varies as per the interest of young generation. The major part of the social media content is focused on the burning issues related to our society and that too with gender sensitization. Gender sensitization is the process changing the mind set of stereotype of men and women-a mind set that strongly believes that man and woman are 'unequal entities' and hence have to function in different socio-economic space. It creates a mind set in men that no longer sees in women the stereotypical image. The general perception of men and women on the rigid gender division of labor and other orthodox practices related to gender begin to die down. Women also tend to develop the perception that they are no subordinate to men and they have an equally important role to play in decision making at household, community and organization level. The main problem of Indian society is lack of women recognition and appreciation for women's involvement in multifarious activities. The researchers have focused on social media content with reference to gender sensitization among the youth population. It is the need of the hour to change the perception about women in our society. The research study aims at analyzing the efficacy of social media as a medium of communication for creating awareness related to gender sensitization. The main objective of the research work is to disseminate information on important social issues used in social media and to sensitize the society against women atrocities and several other problems that are being faced by the women on daily basis. The research will help in studying the nature of social evils against women in our society. A survey of 100 post graduate students was conducted in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. The research was conducted through convenient sampling. The research study focuses on the participation of the students on social media. The research work also focuses on the type of content students browse and post on the social media platforms that are related with gender sensitization. |
Pages: 2092-2094 The term “cognition” covers many mental abilities and all the higher mental processes, including thinking, reasoning, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. These different domains of cognition are critical for successfully engaging in the various activities involved in daily functioning such as reading, playing, talking with someone, driving, paying household bills, following a recipe to cook, and doing office work. Cognitive aging is a natural process associated with advancing years. The cognitive ageing refers to decline in some cognitive domain such as numerical skills, general knowledge and vocabulary, memory, processing speed, executive functioning, multitasking and reasoning, these all cognitive functions are using by the people everyday activities. As human life expectancy increases, maintaining one's cognitive abilities is key to assuring the quality of those rest years of life. There is a pressing need to carefully examine what is known about cognitive aging and cognitive decline, to identify the positive ways and steps that can be taken to maintain and improve cognitive health and to promote successful cognitive aging, and then to take action to implement those changes by informing and activating the different sectors like public, health sector, nonprofit and professional associations, private sector, and government agencies. This review presents a framework for evaluating factors responsible for cognitive aging, some protective activities, and enhancing agents for present and future possibilities as well. |
Pages: 2095-2098 भगत सिंह, राजगुरू और सुखदेव का मुकद्दमा भारतीय इतिहास का महत्वपूर्ण केस है। जिसे लाहौर षडयंत्र केस के नाम से जाना जाता है। सामान्यत ऐतिहासिक सन्दर्भ में दो लाहौर षड़यन्त्र केस माने जाते हैं। जिनमंे प्रथम केस गदर आन्दोलन से जुड़ा है तथा दूसरा केस क्रान्तिकारी आन्दोलन के दूसरे चरण से जुड़ा है। जिसके तहत शहीद भगत सिंह व उसके साथियों को 23 मार्च 1931 को फांसी दी गई। इस केस के माध्यम से अगं्रेज सरकार ने शाक्ति के बल पर भारत के क्रान्तिकारी आन्दोलन को कुचलने का प्रयास किया। मुकदमें की कार्यवाही एक दिखावा थी क्योंकि सरकार सजा का निर्णय पहले ही ले चुकी थी। इससे औपनिवेशिक कार्य प्रणाली व व्यवस्था का पता चलता है। दूसरी और यह केस क्रान्तिकारी इतिहास में भी महत्वपूर्ण है क्योंकि क्रान्तिकारियों द्वारा खुलकर व्यवस्था के ढांेग को उजागर किया। मुकदमें में हर कदम पर बाधा डाली। सरकार की अमानवीय गतिविधियों को झेला तथा भूख हड़ताल इत्यादि द्वारा वैधानिक तरीकों से जेल की स्थिति को सुधारने का प्रयास किया। जिसमें वे आशिंक रूप से कामयाब भी रहे। अतः लाहौर षड्यन्त्र केस ने भारतीय स्वंतत्रता संग्राम की गति को नई तीव्रता प्रदान की और देश को स्वतंत्र कराने में अहम रोल अदा किया तथा भगत सिंह व उसके सहयोगी युवा पीढ़ी के आदर्श बन गए। |
Pages: 2099-2101 प्रजामंडल आंदोलन शेष भारत के अनुरूप हरियाणा में भी अंगे्रजों का निंरकुश राजतन्त्र तथा अत्याचारी सामन्तों के प्रति घोर असंतोष व्याप्त था। जनता में असंतोष की भावना व्याप्त थी। उनके असंतोष को मूर्तरूप देने के लिए संगठन की आवश्यकता थी। परन्तु दूसरी ओर, राजस्थान में 20 वीं शताब्दी के प्रारम्भ में संगठनों तथा संस्थाओं का निर्माण होने लग गया था। 1919 ई. में राजस्थान सेवा संघ के स्थापित हो जाने से जनता की अभिव्यक्ति के लिए सशक्त माध्यम मिल गया था। 1920 से 1929 तक राजस्थान में होने वाले कृषक आंदोलन का नेतृत्व इसी संघ के द्वारा किया गया था। 1919 ई. में ही अन्य महत्वपूर्ण संगठनों का निर्माण कार्य शुरू हुआ था। परन्तु हरियाणा में विभिन्न राज्यों में ऐसे संगठनों का अभाव था। इतना ही नहीं, अखिल भारतीय कांग्रेस भी रियासतों के मामलों में उदासीन हो रही थी। जनता में अखिल भारतीय काग्रेंस की कोई अधिक दिलचस्पी नहीं थी। आगे चलकर हरिपुरा कांग्रेस में इसकी स्थिति में कुछ परिवर्तन हुआ। 1938 ई. के अधिवेशन में रियासती जनता को भी अपने अपने राज्य में संगठन निर्माण करना तथा अपने अधिकारों को प्राप्त करने की छूट दे दी। जिससे जनता में नई चेतना का जन्म हुआ। |
Pages: 2102-2106 प्रस्तुत अध्ययन में रायपुर एवं दुर्ग जिले के विभिन्न विद्यालयों में अध्ययनरत कक्षा ग्यारहवीं के छात्र एवं छात्राओं के पारिवारिक वातावरण का अध्ययन आदत पर प्रभाव का अध्ययन करना है। अध्ययन हेतु रायपुर एवं दुर्ग जिले से शासकीय एवं अशासकीय विद्यालय के कुल 600 विद्यार्थियों, जिनमे रायपुर जिले के 300 एवं दुर्ग जिले के 300 विद्यार्थियों का चयन यादृच्छिक प्रतिदर्श के आधार पर किया गया। प्रदत्तें का संकलन, पारिवारिक वातावरण हेतु जोशी और व्यास तथा अध्ययन आदत हेतु मुखोपाध्याय और सनसनवाल के उपकरण द्वारा किया गया है। शोध के निष्कर्ष निम्न प्रकार है - विद्यार्थियों के पारिवारिक वातावरण एवं अध्ययन आदतों के मध्य सार्थक धनात्मक सहसंबंध पाया गया। उच्च एवं सामान्य पारिवारिक वातावरण के विद्यार्थियों का अध्ययन आदत पर सार्थक प्रभाव पाया गया। |
Pages: 1676-1685 The present study aims to investigate the various socio-economic, demographic, cultural, and village level characteristics that are important in determining factors for girls child marriage among high prevalence state in India. Binary logistic regression has been applied to analyze secondary data (DLHS-4) of 125549 child married women in India. The results of this study indicate that the individual and household socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, such as place of residence, education, religion, and caste are important in determining factors for girls child marriage among high prevalence state in India. Furthermore, it is also found that the largest drop in the prevalence of child marriage has been in under-15 marriages, while marriages in the age group 15-17 years continue to occur quite commonly in a number of high prevalence state in West Bengal, Tripura and Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, the girls with secondary and higher education had much lower chances of early marriage compared to illiterate ones. Thus, education and early marriage are closely linked. However, Wealth Quintile, village Infrastructure quintile and household with BPL card (or not) are significant factor to be associated with child marriage in rest of India and Tripura but it's insignificant in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. In this context, educational intervention (Balika Samridhi Yojana, 1997) and empowerment intervention Kishori Sakti Yojana (2001) by the Government of India and Kanyashree Prakalpa (girl's with secondary education, 2012) by the Government of West Bengal could be a good instrument to reduce the early marriage in India as well as in West Bengal. |
Pages: 1686-1692 'Caregiver' is defined as an individual responsible for caring for a sick or dependent individual, who helps this individual to perform daily tasks such as eating and personal hygiene, in addition to administering routine medication and accompanying the individual to health care services or other services, necessary in their daily routine, excluding techniques or procedures identified as being exclusive to other legally established professions. Several researches have focused on Objective burden, coping strategies, stigmatization of families with mentally ill patients and other specific issues about caregivers of mental patients in the last few years. Lack of training and awareness about the bizarre behaviour adds to the burden of the caregiver and adversely affects their quality of life and relationships. With poor knowledge about the disorder, caregiving often adds more pain to the patient. A Ex-Post Facto research was undertaken to assess the burden, using purposive sampling technique among of 50 family caregivers of person with Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder, Bipolar affective disorder, Anxiety and Depression from the psychiatric hospital at Lucknow. Demographic data sheet, Self developed burden interview schedule were administered to the caregivers. Finding revealed that Females caregivers experience higher levels of caregiving stressors, little social support and poor psychological and physical health. They reported greater interference and limitations in their work and social life due to caregiving, less positive outlook and greater need for external support than counterparts. |
Pages: 1693-1700 A study was done to investigate the relationship between Approval Motivation and Sensitivity to Befallen Injustice. Questionnaires, Marlow and Crowne's Social Desirability Scale (1960) to measure approval motivation and Schmitt, Neumann and Montanda's inventory to measure Dispositional Sensitivity to Befallen Injustice (1995) were administered on undergraduate college students (n=102). The responses were then analyzed using Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient and a moderate negative correlation was found, significant at p <0.001. Cohen's d was calculated (using Pearson's r), indicating a medium effect size and a linear regression analysis was carried out to make prediction for Sensitivity to Befallen Injustice due to Approval Motivation. The author thus concludes that need for approval plays a considerable role in lowering of sensitivity to events that are seen as unjust to oneself. The findings could be useful to help increase this sensitivity by lowering approval motivation through which unjust social behaviors might be internalized. |