Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 1127-1132
Bharat (UG & PG Department of Psychology, NKSPTs Arts, Science and Commerce College, Badnapur, Jalna, Maharashtra)

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between personality type and job satisfaction. Main objectives of study were to find out the effect of types A and type B personality pattern on Job Satisfaction of Industrial Workers. In line of objectives, there are two hypothesis was formulated, i.e., type-A personality would have positive effect on job satisfaction of industrial workers and type-B personality would have positive effect on job satisfaction of industrial workers. For testing the hypothesis, 400 indstrial workers was chosen by random sampling method. Data collected by ABBP scale, constructed by Upinder Dhar and Manisha. Regression analyses are used for data analysis. Results shows that, The Beta value for Type-A is -0.053 and associated t value is 1.13 which is not significant and we conclude that there is no effect of type-A personality on job satisfaction. The Beta value for Type-B is 0.198 and associated t value is 4.25 which is significant on 0.01 level. Researcher concluded that Type-A personality pattern is not associated with job satisfaction of industrial workers and there is no effect of personality type-A pattern on job satisfaction and Type-B personality is positively related to job satisfaction and it has greater impact on job satisfaction of industrial workers.

Pages: 1136-1139
Stuti Singh (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

Stress is a person's psychological and physiological response to the perception of a demand or challenge. The present study aims at exploring the causes of stress and its management among the girls residing in hostels. The study being exploratory in nature, focus group discussion (FGD) was chosen for data collection. Focus group discussion was held with girls in the age group 18 to 24 years. A semi structured interview schedule was prepared for the focus group discussion. Each focus group was audio taped and then transcribed for further analysis. Response themes indicated that after leaving their home now they have new roles and responsibilities, which causes stress in their daily routine as they have to manage everything on their own. Some girls expressed concern about the health and worries of the at-home parent, for most of them the mother is the central figure who helps in dealing with stressful situations. Further, social media, their friends and other hostel mates play very important role in their life now.

Pages: 1144-1146
Pooja Tyagi (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Bintu Singh Ranga (Department of Economics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana)

The present study is an endeavor to describe the varying pattern in spending nature across three generations. For this purpose a study was conducted which consisted 60 participants of both sexes which was further divided into three groups. 1st group was of old age, age ranging between 70-80 (n=20), 2nd group was of middle age, age ranging between 40-55 (n=20) and 3rd group was of early adulthood, age ranging between 18- 28 (n=20) on the basis of purposive sampling from urban areas of Hisar district Haryana. The participants were measured with self constructed expenditure scale and interviewed as well. Findings revealed that youngsters spent just to show off while middle age group i.e. 2nd group was found to make significantly less expenditure as compared to 1st group. On other hand old age i.e. 3rd group was found to make need based expenditure only. Results clearly indicate variations across three generations. Findings show that we are becoming more expensive generation wise with little saving and bore buying. Variations are also found in need based buying. Youths spent to keep up with joneses. Youths shows low level of saving as compared to middle and old age group. The findings are discussed in the paper.

Pages: 1151-1154
Kundan Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Jaywant Kumar Singh, S. P. Goyal, and Surjeet Singh (Department of Plant Pathology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

The milky mushroom is gaining popularity among the traditional button mushroom growers in the India as alternate crop during summer months, but green mould disease caused by T. harzianum is becoming a limiting factor for its popularization among the mushroom growers. Physiology of both pathogen (T. harzianum) and milky mushroom (C. indica) was standardized and found that though C. indica can grow at wide range of temperatures and pH but optimum growth was observed at 30±1˚C and pH 6.0. Similarly the optimum growth of T. harzianum was observed and found that it was at temperature 25±1˚C and pH 6.5. The effect of temperature and pH on interaction of C. indica with T. harzianum also was observed and found that minimum inhibition of C. indica by T. harzianum was observed at temperature 30±1˚C and pH 6.0.

Pages: 1162-1169
Rudrani Mitra and Debadeepa Banerjee (Department of Psychology, Bethune College, Kolkata)

A person of artistic personality uses their body and mind to create new things. They appreciate beauty, unstructured activities and variety. They enjoy interesting and unusual people, sights, textures and sounds. These individuals prefer to work in unstructured situations and use their creativity and imagination. The current study investigates whether there is any distinction between personality trait or features of young dancers and non-dancers. Twenty young female adults (10 dancers & 10 non-dancers) are involved in this study and they are asked to draw a person on a paper and after completing the first drawing experimenter checked the gender of drawing and the participants again are asked to draw a person of opposite gender in another page. A number of personality traits were found that distinguishes a dancer from a non-dancer. It was found that dancers are extrovert, independent, restless, day-dreamer, imaginative, open to experience, warm hearted. On other side non-dancers are self oriented, ambitious, aggressive, inhibited and assaultive. Evidence from the present study suggests that some of the personality traits differ from dancers to non-dancers.

Pages: 1174-1177
Vinayak R. Pathak and R. S. Mhaske (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra )

This study was aimed at analysing the relationship between loneliness, anxiety, and mobile phone addiction among college students in the age group of 18 years to 21 years. The sample of 100 college students using smart phone was collected from various colleges in the city of Pune using incidental sampling method. The Pearson correlation, t-test, and regression analysis was used for analysing the data on SPSS 20. The study revealed that the loneliness and anxiety both were positively related to mobile phone addiction. The regression analysis showed that the loneliness and anxiety both were able to predict the mobile phone addiction.

Pages: 1184-1186
Saurabh Chavan, Juhi Deshmukh, and Bhupender Singh (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra)

The purpose of this research is to explore how happiness is influenced by mindfulness, belief in personal control and gratitude. Students of Savitribai Phule Pune University (n=100) with age group ranging from 21-30 years administered Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Hills and Argyle; Five Facet Mindfullness Questionnaire by Baer; Belief in Personal Control Scale (BPCS) by Berrenberg and the Gratitude Questionnaire-6 (GQ-6) by McCullough. The association between the varibles was tested by pearson product moment correlation and the best predictors of happiness were predicted by step-wise regression analysis. Results showedpositive significant correlation between mindfulness, belief in personal control, gratitude and happiness; gratitude (36%) and mindfulness (13%) were found to be the best predictors of happiness.

Pages: 1190-1193
Vipul Kumar and Neena Kohli (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

The major objective of this qualitative study was to explore the factors of causal beliefs and coping with illness among type 2 diabetes patients. The sample consisted of 35 type 2 diabetes patients with age range from 35 to 60 years. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview schedule. Interview schedule tapped information regarding demographic details such as age, gender, education level, time line, and socioeconomic status and also includes the questions related to search for a causal explanation, feelings, and their action. Thematic network analysis was done to analyze the data. Results showed that the causal beliefs were classified into 3 categories such as knowledge about diabetes, their preference and choice and their ideology about an illness. Another belief about their illness emerged through data analysis i.e. internal locus of control and external locus of control. Results further showed that coping was categorized into three main categories such as approach and avoidance. Findings concluded that the patients with diabetes try to find out the meaning of their illness, engage in various activities to adapt their illness and develop the ability to cope with it.

Pages: 1199-1203
Deepa Kannur and Sunanda Itagi (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Assessing health status and menopausal knowledge of women to develop educational package. Menopause Rating Scale was used to assess age related physical and psychological decline. PGI health questionnaire was used to assess the health status, self structured questionnaire menopausal knowledge on 80 rural and 80 urban women of Dharwad and Bagalkotee districts of Karnataka. The results revealed that 37 % of urban women had mild menopausal symptoms, while 35 % of the rural women reported severe menopausal symptoms. There was significant difference between rural and urban women in menopausal symptoms. SES, age, education and occupation was negative and significantly related with menopausal symptoms. It was observed that only 8-28 % of women had high menopausal knowledge. SES, age, education and occupation was significantly related and associated with menopausal knowledge. There was significant difference between rural and urban women of both the districts in menopausal knowledge. 25-40 % of rural and 15-25 % of urban women reported severely affected health status. There was significant difference between rural and urban women in health status. There was negatively significant relationship observed between health status with SES, education, occupation. There was negatively significant interrelationship between knowledge regarding care and management of menopause and menopausal symptoms and health status. Concluded that proper educational intervention is necessary to improve the health status and knowledge regarding care and management of menopause among menopausal women.

Pages: 1210-1212
Vishal Yadav, Naveen, and Trayambak Tiwari (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
Anju L. Singh (Department of Psychology, Vasanta Kanya Mahavidhyalaya, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Emotional intelligence has often been found as a significant marker of mental health. In this pursuit, the present study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health among university students. A sample of 80 participants was taken out of which 40 were male and 40 female students with in the age range of 16-20 years from Banaras Hindu University. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health of the participants were assessed, Pearson r yielded positive correlation between mental health and emotional intelligence, (r = 0.31, p < 0.01).

Pages: 1216-1218
Mohd Shoiab Mir and R. Sankar (Department of Psychology, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu)

Mental health is defined as a state of well being in which people realizes their own potential, can cope with the every day's normal stresses and work productively as well as fruitfully and is able to make contribution to her or his community. The purpose of the present paper is to assess the level of mental health among alcohol abusers. The present study consisted the sample of 60 subjects which were equally divided into three groups on the basis of age (15-25 years & 25-35 years), occupation (employed & unemployed) and duration of intake (1-3 years & 3-5 years). Mental Health Inventory designed and developed by Viel and Ware (1983) was used for data collection. Mean, SD, t-test and correlation were applied for statistical analysis. Results indicate that there is significant difference between the mean scores of 15-25 and 25-35 years old alcohol abusers. Similarly there is a significant difference found between the mean scores of employed and unemployed alcohol abusers. Further there is a significant difference found between the mean scores of alcohol abusers with alcohol intake duration 1-3 and above 3-5 years. And there is a significant relationship between mental health, age, occupation and duration of intake. On the basis of the findings in the present study we may conclude that age, occupation and duration of intake are influential factors in mental health.

Pages: 1222-1225
Girijesh K. Yadav (Technical Officer-A (Psychology), ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat)
S. A. Barkat (Regional Director, Maulana Azad National Urdu University Mumbai Region, Navi Mumbai)

This study was conducted to assess the stress, anxiety and depression among none-academic staffs in educational institutions with respect to their work profile, educational qualification. One hundred twenty-six nonacademic staffs have been enrolled from different states of India, ranging between 18 to 60 years belonging to major work group i.e. officers (n=30) and office-clerks (n=96). All the participants were categorized on the basis of their educational qualifications i.e. doctorate (n=9), post graduate (n=62), graduate (n=44) and intermediate (n=12) too. Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) has been used to assess the depression, anxiety and stress of non-academic staffs. Results showed no anxiety (M=6.9, SD=5.58), depression (M=5.4, SD=6.07) and stress (M=9.2, SD=7.23) among non-academic staffs. Scores (t-value) on stress, anxiety and depression level were not found significant between officers and office-clerk groups. One-way ANOVA revealed no significant difference in the mean scores on stress, anxiety and depression across different educational qualification group of non-academic staffs.