Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Pages: 308-312
Manzoor Ahmad Rather (Department of Education, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir)
Mahmood Ahmad Khan (Department of Education, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir)

The study was undertaken to study the relationship between the factors of Emotional Intelligence and self-actualization of Creative writers of Jammu & Kashmir. The sample of the study comprised of 80 creative writers (Sahitya, Akademi, Awardees & Award-nominees). Emotional Intelligence Scale (2011) by Hyde, Pathe, and Dhar to measure emotional intelligence and Personal Orientation Inventory by Shostrom (1974) to measure self-actualization were the tools used for the collection of Data. Correlation was computed by employing Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation on Personality and Emotional Intelligence of Creative writers (N=80) at dimension level. The study revealed that there exists a significant relationship (Positive) between the factors ‘Self-awareness and feeling reactivity, ‘Emotional stability and Feeling reactivity and Intimate contact, ‘ Integrity and Feeling reactivity, ‘Value orientation and Inner directness, Acceptance of Aggression and Intimate contact’. Significant Negative relationship was found between the factors ‘Managing Relations and Time competence, Self Actualizing Value and Synergy’.

Pages: 319-325
Parvinder Kaur (Department of Human Development & Family Studies College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, Punjab)
Sarita Saini (Department of Human Development & Family Studies College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, Punjab)

The present study was conducted in urban and rural areas of Moga and Ludhiana district of Punjab in order to investigate the gender wise differences related to meta cognitive awareness among adolescents. A self-designed personal information sheet was used to document the socio-personal characteristics of the selected subjects for the study. Meta cognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994) was used to investigate various aspects of meta cognition indepth and to obtain scores for individual components/sub-components of meta cognition The results indicated that significantly more number of females were found at high level of ‘declarative knowledge’ as well as ‘evaluation’ sub-components of meta cognition. Significant gender-wise differences were observed in the mean scores of meta cognition as females scored better than male respondents. Further, across two components and eight sub-components and of meta cognition females exhibited better knowledge in both the components of meta cognition as well as ‘declarative knowledge’, information management strategies’, and ‘debugging strategies’ sub-components of meta cognition.

Pages: 331-337
G. Radhika (Department of Psychology, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu)
R. Rajendran (Department of Educational Management Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu)
R. Sankar (Department of Applied Psychology, NITTTR, Chennai, Tamil Nadu)

The fast-paced lifestyle in India today accompanied by rapid globalization and rampant urbanization along with recent the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the manner in which people lead their lives. The transition from conventional joint families to nuclear families has also become the norm now. All these factors cumulatively are causing several health problems mainly related to mental health issues amongst children and adolescents during this pandemic. The need of the hour is to tackle the issue of mental health amongst children and adolescents through a system thinking approach which takes into account diverse factors that can eventually improve or enhance mental health outcomes. A system thinking approach would consider the role of factors such as food, sports, music, yoga and spirituality in addressing mental health challenges amongst children and adolescents. Studies have been conducted by researchers in the past which indicate that there is a positive correlation between the kind of food that is being consumed, mindful eating, physical activity, physical literacy, music, yoga, mindful meditation, spirituality, which together lead a greater sense of awareness and thereby creates positive emotions by buffering the negative emotions such as anxiety and depression levels. As a public health emergency, the COVID-19 outbreak, there is a dire need to adopt a system thinking approach by not only with schools but also emphasized on parents or caregivers. The government should adopt systems thinking approach asa mandatory part of the curriculum of schools while parents and children as key stakeholders.

Pages: 344-353
A.P. Tripathi (Department of Psychology, DRDO Scientist (Psychologist), Selection Centre East, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)
A. Gupta (Department of Psychology, DRDO Scientist, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi)
P. Kumar (Department of Psychology, DRDO Scientist (Psychologist), Selection Centre East, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of this study was to develop a projective inventory to measure integrity. The projective inventory (PI) is a 69 item (statements) scale consists of 6 situations designed to measure integrity. Integrity has six dimensions: a) Belief in higher order principles: truth, (b) Money as means not as end, (c) Moral courage: indifference to suffering, (d) Commitment to family and friends, (e) Involvement in corruption and (f) Favoritism. The projective inventory yields a total score and six scores corresponding to the dimensions of integrity. Each score was calculated according to agreement and disagreement to the statements given by the participants during the data collection. The results revealed that the average score on positive dimensions of integrity (moral courage: Indifference to suffering, truth & commitment respectively) were higher than the negative values traits of integrity (involvement in corruption & favoritism). Reliability of the projective inventory integrity is 0.94. The construct (convergent) validity of the test was examined in which the correlation of PI scores with Big Five personality attributes was found to be moderate, which indicates that PI measures something related to existing tools of integrity in slightly different manner. Factor analysis was carried out to find the factor structure of the scale. Factor analysis revealed three factors in terms of indifference to suffering commitment and truth. Taking all the dimensions of integrity together and analyzing the step-wise regression analysis, it was found that indifference to suffering is the best predictor of overall test followed by favoritism, commitment, corruption and truth.

Pages: 365-370
Shatakshi Singh (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Deepika Vig (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Asha Chawla (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

Academic readiness plays an important role in early childhood period and it sets the basis for future development. It is a holistic approach of parents, children, and school towards appropriate development of child. Academic readiness is gaining attention as an important approach to merge the learning gap and improves the quality of achieving lifelong learning and full developmental potential among preschoolers. This study comprising 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) of class-I from randomly selected private schools of rural and urban area of Ludhiana district. Self-structured academic readiness checklist was undertaken to assess academic readiness. The results revealed that most of the rural and urban children had high level of skills in overall academic readiness. Locale wise differences depicted that urban children had better skills across various domains of academic readiness than rural children.

Pages: 374-377
Yashi Sonthalia (Department of Psychology, St. Francis College for Women Hyderabad, Telangana)

Resilience refers to one’s ability to overcome challenges. Mindfulness is an attitude of awareness and non-judgmentally accepting one’s moment-to-moment experience. Flourishing includes a range of positive concepts and offers a more holistic construct to being well and happy. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between mindfulness, resilience and flourishing. The current study was conducted on 111 middle aged adults from the age of 40-60 years old. The results showed that mindfulness, resilience and flourishing were all significantly related to one another. It was also seen that those who were working were significantly more mindful and resilient than those who were not. Lastly, the results also showed that resilience and flourishing were predicted by mindfulness. The study has important implications for the field of positive psychology

Pages: 383-388
Arun Kumar Jaiswal (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
LokNath Singh (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
Rashmi Rani (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
Seema Rani Sarraf (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

This study was carried out to establish the construct, convergent and predictive validity of Hindi translation of Meta-emotions Scale in Hindi speaking Indian cultural context. For the purpose 16 to 78 years old 1324 men and women participants with High School education from Chowk and adjoining areas of Varanasi city of Uttar Pradesh, India, completed the Hindi version of 28-items Metaemotions Scale (MES). Factor analysis (principal components) on Hindi version of MES (MES-H) by applying Varimex rotation method with the loading equal to or more than 0.400, Eigen value equal to 1.00, and Scree plot suggested two to three factors, and finally, confirmatory factor analysis by AMO Sindicated a two factor model with an acceptable goodness of model fit on 19 items. The content of 10 items of the first factor and 9 items of second factor yielded two behavioral components, i.e., Positive Meta-emotions and Negative Meta-emotions. The psychometric properties of the MES-H demonstrated good internal consistency with acceptable reliability, construct and convergent validity. The gender and age differences analyses also indicated that women manifested significantly higher positive meta-emotions and negative meta-emotions in comparison to men, and older as compared to younger participants demonstrated significantly high levels of positive meta-emotions indicating good predictive validity. These findings indicated that the MES-Hindi may be considered as a reliable and valid measurement of meta-emotions in Hindi speaking Indian cultural context

Pages: 392-397
Ghazala Shahina (Department of Psychology, A.M.U., Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)
Asma Parveen (Department of Psychology, A.M.U., Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Increased capacity of abstract thinking, cognitive maturity, and identity formation during the period of adolescence entails “spiritual awakening”. Spirituality commonly comprises a search for meaning and purpose in life. To cope up with the adverse situations as well as promoting the mental health conditions of adolescents, spirituality act as a protective shield for them. The aim of the current investigation was, (a) To study the relationship of spirituality and its dimensions (self-discovery, relationships, & eco-awareness) with resilience and mental health among adolescents; and (b) To explore how spirituality and its dimensions (self-discovery, relationships, & eco-awareness) predicts resilience and mental health among adolescents. The study was performed on 60 school-going adolescents by using a random sampling technique. Participants completed the measure of the Spirituality Scale, Resilience Scale, and Mental Health Inventory. Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation and Regression Analyses were used to analyze the data. Findings of the study propagated the positive and significant relationship of spirituality with resilience and mental health among adolescents and spirituality was found as a good predictor of resilience and mental health. Furthermore, eco-awareness and self-discovery dimensions of spirituality emerged as significant predictors of resilience and mental health respectively

Pages: 402-405
Aman (Department of Psychology, DAV College, Chandigarh)

College students are the ones who face a lot of stress during their academic life. Some tackle them efficiently; however,some are not able to tackle them, while some are slower to tackle them. They may be optimistic or pessimistic in their life orientation. According to research people who are optimistic tend to be higher on resilience. The researched aimed to investigate the correlation between optimism and resilience. Gender differences were also studied. For this purpose the following tools were employed: Life Orientation Test-Revised for optimism and Brief Resilience Scale for resilience. The sample of 60 students in which 30 males and 30 females between 18 to 22 years was taken. Correlation, t- ratio, and regression analysis were the techniques of statistical analysis used. It was found that there is no significant relation between resilience and optimism. And it was found that significant gender differences in optimism but not on resilience. Resilience is a predictor of optimism.

Pages: 411-415
Chhanda Karmaker (Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Kaniz Fatema (Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

The study aimed to investigate the perceived influential factors of women career advancement according to gender, company types and different levels of position in the current workplace. Cross-sectional Survey Research Design was used for the study. 257 adult male and female employees were selected as participants following convenient sampling technique. They were from four districts of Bangladesh working in banks, multinational companies, private firms and telecommunication sectors. The mean of means was used to compare the perceptual differences and the results revealed that family support was the most influential factor for women professional development following career focused, attitude toward organization and pleasant appearance according to types of company and different levels of position. But a gender difference was found regarding this issue. Most of the women gave emphasis on being career focused for reaching the career ladder whereas men found family support as the most leading factor for women career progression.