Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Pages:468-471
Amat-u-Sami and Touseef Rizvi (Department of Psychology, University of Kashmir, J&K)

The present study examined the extent to which Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits predict Life Satisfaction. Secondly, the study investigated the association between i) Emotional Intelligence & Life Satisfaction ii) Personality traits & Life Satisfaction among Adults (102) with mean age of 28. All the participants were chosen from different areas of district, Srinagar by using purposive sampling method. Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits were the predictor variables while Life Satisfaction was the criterion variable in the present study. Instruments used were SWLS (Diener et al, 1985), NEO-FFI-3 (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and MEII (Mangal & Mangal, 2004). Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis revealed that most of the factors of emotional intelligence were positively correlated with life satisfaction whereas most of the personality traits showed significant negative correlations with life satisfaction. The present study also indicated that only E2 (inter-personal awareness) factor of Emotional Intelligence emerged as the significant predictor of Life Satisfaction whereas none of the personality traits emerged as the significant predictor of Life Satisfaction among the Adults. Purchase PDF Purchase hard copy

Pages:478-485
Vibhuti Gupta and N.K. Chadha (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Old age is seen as a time when elderly engage in the spirituality to find existential meaning of life, transcend beyond the boundaries of self to realize connection with the larger universe and also to come to terms with death. In this context, the present research aims to understand the development of spirituality from the middle age through the old age. The study also examines the gender differences in spirituality. For this purpose three age cohorts: middle aged (40-45 years), young old (60-65 years) and oldest old (80 years and above) were chosen to assess spiritual development with age. The sample of 171 respondents (95 males and 76 females) were administered Daily Spiritual Experience scale (Underwood, 2006). Two-way factorial ANOVA was computed to examine age and gender differences in spirituality (daily spiritual experiences and perceived closeness to God). The results indicated that spirituality increased consistently with increasing age as middle aged were lowest on daily spiritual experiences and perceived closeness to God and the oldest old respondents were highest on these dimensions. A significant gender and age interaction was observed wherein middle aged females experienced more daily spiritual experiences as compared to middle aged males. This significant difference disappeared with age. The results are discussed in light of recent research and implications of the research are suggested.

Pages:491-493
S.S. Nathawat and Meenal Dadarwal (Amity Behavioural Institute and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan )

The present research has examined the difference between stress levels of officers having different level of emotional intelligence in a sample of 300 police officers in Rajasthan state. The sample was subjected to 8 emotional state including anxiety, arousal, depression, extraversion, fatigue, guilt, regression and stress and emotional intelligence inventory. The analysis of these of the total stress state revealed that individual with high emotional intelligence would have low negative emotion stress state in the police and through the emotional inventory the level of emotional intelligence was also assessed. Implications of the findings have been discussed to promote the individuals to transcend self imposed limitations and actualize their potentials to serve the society and can act as a protector of the law.

Pages:499-505
Pooja Bhatnagar Varma (Amity University, Noida, U.P.)

The present investigation accentuates the diverse subjective experiences of males who have showed empathy or support in relationships with others. The hypothesis was to learn about one's ability to vicariously experience another individual's emotions or to feel what someone else feels. Convenience sampling and snowball sampling technique used whereby the participants were asked to refer other people known to them. The technique used to collect data was narrative interviewing. The interview was conducted in group as people would resonate to each other experiences that motivate them to share it openly. Content analysis with thematic representation was formulated subsequently to dig deeper reading of the meaning of a story, what a story says about the characters involved, and what certain images might symbolize.

Pages:510-513
Neelam (Psychologist, B. P. S. Govt. Medical College Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana) Parinka Devi (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana)

Breast cancer among women is associated with a large number of psychological problems. The women suffering from breast cancer underwent severe psychological distress, use various coping mechanisms to improve their overall quality of life. The present investigation was planned to study psychological distress, coping resources and subjective well-being among breast cancer women in comparison to normal women. The sample for the study consisted of 200 women (100 Breast cancer and 100 normal). The sample was assessed with Subjective Wellbeing Inventory, Coping Resources Index, and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). Data were processed for Discriminant Analysis. When compared, results clearly demonstrated poor subjective well-being, high level of psychological distress, and inappropriate coping among breast cancer women as compared to their normal counterparts. Discriminant Analysis clearly revealed a linear combination of five aspects of subjective well-being which account for considerable degree of variation between breast cancer and normal women groups

Pages:518-520
Sreehari. R and Joseph Thomas R (School of Life Skills Education, Rajiv Gandhi, National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai) A.Radhakrishnan Nair (Officer on Special Duty to Minister of State at Ministry of Labour, Government of India) Balan Rathakrishnan (School of Psychology and Social Work Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia)

The promotion of Child Mental Health can lead to prevention of mental illness. 'Life Skills Education is a proven method for promoting mental health. This indicates that life skills education is required by young people for their holistic development and hence it should be imparted. Well designed, tested and delivered life skills programmes can achieve much in helping children and adolescents become more responsible, healthy and resilient both during childhood and as adults. The concept of resilience emerged in the psychiatric literature in the 1980's, in an attempt to understand individual differences in their responses to stress and adversity, which has a direct linkage with wellbeing. Resilience and Life Skills Training are topics of interests to school psychologists, yet little is known about the relationships among the two. It was hypothesized that resilience would mediate the relationship with Life Skills. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Life Skills Training for fostering Resilience. The training was conducted over a period of 30 days for 60 min per day. A total of 15 students participated in the training programe. Wagnild and Young's Resilience Scale was utilized for assessing the resilience before and after the training programme. The result of the training indicates a positive effect on life skills training for fostering resilience. The statistical analysis also indicates that there is an improvement in the level of resilience on the experimental group.

Pages:525-527
Kiran Sahu (Department of Psychology G. D. H. G. College, Moradabad, U.P.)

Well-being can be defined in terms of an individual's mental, physical, social environmental status which interact with each other havings different level of importance and impact. The aim of the present study is to find out the gender differences regarding the experiences of well being and life satisfaction.A sample of 100 adults (50 males and 50 females) belongs to middle socio-economic background was taken. Subjective well being was measured with the help of P.G.I. General Well Being measure by Verma and Verma (2009) and life satisfaction was measured by Life Satisfaction Scale developed by Alam and Srivastava (2001). Results denoted that there was not any significant gender difference for well being as well as for life satisfaction.But economic satisfaction is only dimension of life satisfaction which showed significant gender difference, further female experiences better economic satisfaction in comparison to males.

Pages:534-536
Praful K., Shahid E and Manisha Kiran (Department of PSW, Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS), Ranchi, Jharkhand) Bhupendra Singh (Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry PGIMS, Rohtak) Amool Ranjan Singh (Director, RINPAS, Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Background: Homosexuality exits in across the culture and from the ancient time but it's have some stigma and discrimination from the community especially in Asian region. This stigma and discrimination cause several type of day to day life difficulties and also become a hurdle in peoples development and life satisfaction. Aam: Aim of the present study was to assess the level of life satisfaction of this self defined homosexuals and heterosexual males. Method: Sample selection was done through snow ball sampling and it was voluntary. Result: people with homosexual orientation having poor level of life satisfaction in comparison to heterosexuals. It is very clear from the literature and present study findings that people with same sex orientation have gain access to the personal sexual practices but have been hampered their life satisfaction significantly.

Pages:540-545
Roopa, K.S., and Rama Devi,G. (Department of Human Development and Research Centre Smt. V.H.D. Central Institute of Home Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka)

A research project was conducted with the objective to know the perception of quality of life (QoL) of elderly with diabetes and hypertension. Purposive random technique was adopted for the present study. A sample of 1200 elderly who were diabetic and hypertensive were identified from 20 areas in Bangalore city. The sample of 1200 further divided into 600 each of men and women of which 300 each were from the age group of 65-70 years and 71-76 years. The QoL was assessed through the standardised scale WHO-QOL-100 field version. The quantitative analysis of the data was made by calculating frequencies, percentage, mean scores and SD. Chi-Square , 't' test and 'Z' test were applied to see the significance of differences in the mean scores of men and women and the two age groups classified for the study. The finding revealed that old age people with diabetes and hypertension have not shown a low perception of quality of life as expected. Most of them showed a moderate level of QOL. Women are more likely to be high or moderate on QOL while men tend to be moderate or low. More number of younger men among the aged were found to have low QOL while more number of older men was found to have moderate QOL. Among women, high QOL was noticed in the younger group more often and moderate QOL among older women.

Pages:551-554
Taruna and Sandeep Singh (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Distress either can be physical like a broken leg or it can be emotional like sadness, depression or anger. At some phase or point of life we all have to face, tolerate and cope with the distress in our lives. Distress tolerance primarily refers to individual's ability to withstand and experience negative psychological states (Simons & Gaher, 2005). The interpersonal relationships and effectiveness between adolescents, their family and friends are considered to be a crucial factor that influences their well-being. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) focuses on learning to cope and change the distressing events and circumstances. The distress tolerance training enhances the individuals capacity to deal with distress and on the other hand the intepersonal effectivensss skills taught in the dialectical behaviour therapy make the individual to deal with the relationships effectively. The primary objective of the present research study was to observe the effect of adapted form of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in enhancing the abilities of distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. In the present study authors kept 20 participants on therapeutic intervention for the period of one year. The participants recorded to have poor levels of distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness on on the measures of Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) and Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ) respectively. Participants were trained exclusively on the skills training modules of DBT in individual as well as group settings and their post intervention assessment of the levels of distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness were recorded with the respective tools after every four months (baseline, four, eight and twelve months) respectively. Descriptive statistical analysis (mean and standard deviation) and paired t-test was used to test the significance of mean. The results obtained from the present study recorded the significant improvement in the levels of distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. The results obtained from the present study revealed that DBT has a significant role in enhancing the abilities of distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness amongst the participants of the study.