Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Page: 231-237 Shamini Srivastava and Ankit Srivastava (Department of Psychology, Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh)

Page: 245-248 Suman Rani ¹, Kuldeep Singh ², and   Gaurav Sharma³ (Department of Psychology, Fateh Chand College for Woman, Hisar, Haryana ¹, Department of Psychology, Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani, Haryana², Department of Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana³

Page: 252-255 Amreen Sekhon (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

Page: 01-05 Joji Joseph1 and Rodel P. Canlas2 (The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines1,2 and Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines2) Recently post-traumatic stress symptoms are highly noticed among women with intimate partner violence or experiencing battering and their quality of life became a question. In Indian society, the rate of suicide is increasing among battered wives and the need for psychological intervention is highly suggested. Based on previous findings and needs current study developed a Self-Supportive Intervention program combining the Mindfulness-based cognitive theory and emotional processing theory to reduce PTSD symptoms among battered women in Madhya Pradesh, India by scrutinizing its efficacy. The study used three phases of the Conklin program development model (1997), including planning, design and implementation, and evaluation. The planning and pilot testing of the SSI program included the first two phases and the third phase tested its efficacy using a “randomized controlled trial” of two groups comprising 40 Battered wives. Twenty participants were included in experimental and control groups respectively. Participants' socio-demographic profiles, the posttraumatic Symptoms Scale Interview version for DSM-5 (PSS-I-5), the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref Scale, and the Interview Protocol were used for collecting data. The newly developed self-supportive intervention program had an inter-reliability score of .845 after its evaluation by experts. To determine the extent of the program's impact, data analyses included MANOVA and Paired t-tests. According to the MANOVA results, the SSI program significantly affected participants' quality of life and PTSD symptoms (F [5,34] = 275.67, p<0.05). Paired t-test results were also significant at the 0.05 level. The Partial Esta-square of .976 indicated that the SSI program was effective in alleviating PTSD symptoms and increasing the quality of life.

Page: 13-20 Mehatab Shaikh1, Mahimna Vyas2, and Abdul Raffie Naik3 (Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences, Amity University Maharashtra1, AURO University, Surat, Gujrat2, and Department of Psychology, Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka3) This study aimed to investigate the mean difference in well-being of young adults, student population of India. This study also looked at the social support's partial mediating role between resilience and well-being (total effect=1.1674), in a sample of young adults in India (N = 202). The results have shown significant mean differences based on gender (0.024) and level of education (0.033). Through Pearson's R correlation, we found a positive relationship between resilience and well-being (0.402), well-being and social support (0.401) and social support and resilience (0.147). All three relations were significant at 0.05 level of significance. The results show that well-being is positively influenced by the level of education. Between the genders, females experience a higher effect and level of well-being, through education given similar circumstances. The study highlights the need for exploratory research regarding influence of education on well-being, along with the need for empirical research on the relationship between resilience, well-being, and perceived social support.

Page: 27-30 Debangana Bhattacharya1, and Rita Karmakar2, and Anindita Majumdar3 (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal1,2 and School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Woxsen University, Digwal, Telangana3) Dance as an art form when applied therapeutically gives several physical and mental health benefits. The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of dance on adults' mental health that is associated with some form of dance. Hence, the aim of the present study is, i) To learn the Self-esteem (SE), Physical Aggression (PA), Verbal Aggression (VA), Anger (A), Hostility (H) and the level of Resilience (R) among the adult dancer, ii) To find out the level of association between Self-esteem, Aggression, and Resilience among the participants, and, iii) To find out a significant predictor of Self-esteem. This study is based on a non-probability sampling design technique with a total of 107 dancers. This study incorporated both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. The scales used are Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale by Rosenberg (1965); the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) (1992); and The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-25) by Kathryn et al. (2003) and also in-depth semi-structured interviews were taken from 12 participants to fulfill the aim of the study. This study reveals (Table 1) high self-esteem, high physical aggression, hostility, and high resilience power in adult dancers. The study also reveals a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and resilience, physical aggression and anger and a negative significant correlation between resilience and anger, self-esteem and hostility, resilience and verbal aggression, self-esteem and verbal aggression. Physical aggression and Resilience is found to be a significant predictor of self-esteem dancers.

Page: 35-38 Ritu Sharma1, Sarita2, and Deepak Kumar3 (Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana1,2 and Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana3) The increased migration of students from rural areas to cities in search of quality education prompted the researcher to take interest in exploring the differences in life satisfaction between students residing in rural and urban areas of Haryana, India. Life satisfaction is a subjective experience, experienced by an individual. This present study was conducted through an online survey of 200 college students residing in rural (n=100) and urban (n=100) areas. The age range of participants was between 18-25 years, including males (n=100) and females (n=100). For this purpose, the researcher used the satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) developed by Diener et al. In 1985. Received data were analyzed through quantitative analysis. The results of the present study indicate that rural students are more satisfied with their life than urban students while there is no significant difference found in the life satisfaction of males and females. This study would drive implications for policymakers of education and health.