Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Pages:228-231
S. Suparna (Department of Psychology, SDMPG center, Ujire, Karnataka)

Procrastination is a behavior mainly stemming from regulatory failure affecting people across various domains. Emotional regulation is an effective strategy that uses emotional management and emotional expression to reduce procrastination. Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity and maintain well-being and positive interpersonal relationships. The study aimed to understand if resilience plays a factor in strengthening the role of emotional regulation in decreasing procrastination. 80 participants were selected based on four IT job roles through snowball sampling. Lay's General Procrastination scale, Emotional regulation questionnaire (Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and resilience assessment quotient was assessed across the participants. The responses were analyzed through moderator analysis using a multiple regression model for the continuous moderating variables. The results of the study indicate that resilience acts as a moderating variable strengthening the negative relationship between cognitive reappraisal and procrastination. While it doesn't play a significant moderating role between expressive suppression and procrastination. Further, the study implies that organizations could build an educational framework on building resilience on the cognitive reappraisal to boost productive outcomes.

Pages:236-241
Nilanjana Mitra and Anindita Chaudhuri (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The study is a quest to introspect into the lives of those persons who get easily discriminated or marginalized and consequently abandoned by the mainstream society. So, the obvious question that arises here is how these persons react to such discrimination and still maintain quality of life. From this perspective, the study aims to address the pitiful condition of such individuals who have been in sex-trade and also addresses the difficulties faced by Gender and sexual minority individuals. Thus it is interesting to see, in spite of heightened stigma faced by both the groups how they retain well-being and what factors add to their quality of life. To facilitate the study, 40 participants from each of the following groups were purposively selected: sex-workers and individuals belonging to gender and sexual minority groups, thus making a total sample size of 80 participants. The scales used for the present study were: PGI Quality of Life Scale, Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, Life Regard Index, Bharathiar University Resilience Scale and Life Orientation Test- revised. Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis had been done to find out the effect of the predictor variables viz. Happiness, Meaning in Life, Resilience and Life-orientation on Quality of Life, the Outcome variable. The results indicate that Happiness contributes largely to Quality of Life for the female sex-workers. This may be caused due to the fact that material prosperity and social rise often outweighs their prostitution stigma and adds to their well-being. In case of gender and sexual minority individuals the fulfillment part of meaning in life enhances their Quality of Life. This may be attributed to the fact that engaging in meaningful activities for the betterment of sexual and gender minority people add a sense of accomplishment and enhances their well-being.

Pages:245-249
Bisman Kaur, Tejpreet Kaur Kang, and Seema Sharma (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab)

The present investigation was conducted to explore the relationship of happiness and mental health among adolescents. The research was carried on 200 adolescents (Boys=100, Girls=100) in the age group of 14-17 years studying in urban Government Senior Secondary Schools in Ludhiana. The sample was randomly drawn from 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades. A self-structured General Information Sheet was used to collect the information about the demographic profile of adolescents. Mental Health Battery by Singh and Sengupta and Happiness Scale by Bharadawaj and Daas were the research instruments used to assess the status of adolescent's mental health and happiness respectively. Outcomes of the study suggested that there was a significant and positive correlation between mental health and happiness. From these results, it could be implied that happiness and related factors can be used as resources to positively impact the mental health of adolescents.

Pages:258-262
Tarika Sandhu and Harjinder Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

The burden on counselors has tremendously amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Isolation, contactless work settings, work overload and economic shutdown vividly imposed a drastic change in counselors work environment. It is assumed that the COVID-19 pandemic would have greater adverse results for early-in-career counselors as they have not fully acquired personal agencies of protection against unprecedented stressors otherwise acquired through experience. From amongst the obvious challenges, counselors in the early phase of their careers are also facing discrepancies between their abilities and workload, ethical conflicts of providing services to the most needy over others (due to limited personal capacities), unsatisfactory acknowledgment and ill defined work outcomes due to the pandemic. An imbalance in self-care and personal stress management could create the risk of burnout in counselors .The present study focused on the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in predicting burnout among early career counselors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample for the study comprised of 64 counselors (Males=17, Females=47) who were in the early stages of their career. The Counselor Burnout Inventory by (Lee et al., 2007) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by (Garnefski et al., 2002) were used for gathering information related to the psychological indices. Regression analysis revealed that the indices of Positive reappraisal and Other-blame negatively predicted Burnout. Implications of the study point towards counselors strengthening their cognitive emotional regulation strategies to evade burnout and provide high quality services to clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pages:268-270
Akbar Husain and Zohra Khatoon (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Religion and spirituality are the means to know God and to love Him through practices. Because of lack of training of religious and spiritual counsellor, they do not know how to realize the presence and power of God in healing the illness. People are simply satisfied going to Temple/Mosque/Gurudwara/ Church and involve there in prayer and alms. Religious/spiritual counselors' focus should be to suggest counselee how to serve and love God. We have various questions regarding the present and future, work, relationships and health-related problems linked with Covid. Our mind is always busy chattering and trying to cope with it. It is essential to seek online counselling to give answer of those questions which are being unanswered by the self. The advantages and disadvantages associated with online counselling are discussed in this article. Moreover, cure for psycho-spiritual illnesses linked with Covid pandemic are also discussed.

Pages:274-277
Ravinder Kumar and NovRattan Sharma (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

The life of an individual passes through some predefined stages. The most common classification of these stages is child age, young age, and old age. Every individual faces a lot of Biological, psychological, and social-cultural change during this process of life. Previous researches show an individual who gains a positive experience from life lives longer than the person with a negative experience. In the present study, some psychological factors were taken to know whether there is any relationship between the psychological factors of long-lived members of the society. To fulfill this purpose 100 participants of more than 70 years were selected and took data of four psychological attributes, i.e., optimism, pessimism, resilience, and life satisfaction by using the reliable and valid scale of these attributes. Results show that three traits (optimism, resilience, & life satisfaction) were found positively associated with each other, and a negative correlation was found between pessimism and Resilience.

Pages:282-287
Neha Verma1 and Vanita Sondhi2 (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi1 and Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi2)

The Quality of Life is the individual's perception of their position in life specific to their culture, value system and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns. Quality of Life has become an increasingly important measure of mental health work and research. The current study gives a brief overview of the literature on children with ADHD and their quality of life. The study further proposes to examine issues from a different perspective namely the resilience-based perspective. The extant literature indicates that the majority of studies have employed a deficit-focused approach. Research using this approach has demonstrated that children with ADHD have a lower quality of life than children who do not have the disorder. Additionally, this approach also highlights that severity of symptoms and presence of comorbidities is associated with low quality of life in these children. Pharmacological treatments like methylphenidate, atomoxetine, and other stimulants are correlated with an improvement in quality of life scores. The present study highlights that in this approach the focus is more on 'fixing' the deficits and identifying what is lacking in these children than on identifying their strengths and factors that are contributing in their 'thriving'. The study also highlights the importance of resilience-based approach to study the quality of life of children with ADHD.

Pages:26-29
Mohammadreza Akbari and Roghayeh Nourizadeh (Fars Province Technical and Professional Office, Iran)

Humans have always been exposed to various pathogenic and non-pathogenic threats throughout history and have used various ways to treat and control them. One of these methods has been the use of bees and their products. The results showed that honey bee is one of the most powerful organisms that benefits humans most. In addition to participating in pollination and pollination of plants through honey, royal jelly, honey bite venom and propolis, it benefits humans. Honey has many of the healing properties of flowers and plants on earth. Honey quickly absorbs blood and is therefore potent and is extremely effective in blood making. Prevents infection in the stomach and intestine and relieves constipation. Honey has a remarkable effect on relieving muscle fatigue and increasing blood calcium levels. Honey is effective in strengthening the heart and is a good adjunct to the treatment of lung diseases. Its microbicidal properties are useful for diarrhea patients and effective in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Bee venom has been used in a variety of ways to treat some diseases, including: rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, malaria, goiter, neurological and nerve pain, neuritis and edema and some eye diseases such as Iridocycle Iris and severe allergy to bee venom. Is. This wonderful substance has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-dental effects. It is also used as an immune system booster, oral and gingival remedy, topical anesthetic and blood pressure lowering agent. Medicinal uses of propolis include cardiovascular treatment (anemia), respiratory system, dental care, skin care (wound healing, eczema, wound healing especially burn wounds, fungal disease), infectious diseases (mucous membranes & wounds), Cancer treatments include strengthening the body's immune system, digestive tract (wounds & infections), protecting and strengthening the liver and many more.

Pages: 122-125
Abhishek Kumar1, Mayank Srivastava2, and Lokesh Kumar Ranjan3 (Department of Psychiatric Social Work Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand1, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi2, and Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Central India Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Dewada, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh3)

Family with negative home environment leads not only to relapse and re hospitalization but also impacts the course of the illness. To assess and compare the perceived expressed emotion and perceived stress among schizophrenia and BPAD patients with first and multiple hospitalizations. The study has been conducted at the inpatient department of Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand (India). The total sample size was 80 patients of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorders selected through purposively sampling technique in accordance of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Socio-demographic and clinical informations of the entire patients were assessed through socio-demographic datasheet, clinical datasheet, perceived stress scale (PSS) and level of expressed emotions scale (LEE). The result shows the more perceived expresses emotion and perceived stress among patients with multiple admissions in schizophrenia and BPAD as compared to single admission among patients with schizophrenia and BPAD. Patients have stressful life and high expressed emotion with history of multiple hospitalizations in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. They often need different kind of emotion and social support. Reducing stress and expressed emotion results in improvement in the patient.