Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 776-780
Anil Kumar, Ashok Kumar Godara, Ashok Kumar, and Jitender Kumar Bhatia (Department of Extension Education, COA, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

The study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar, Rohtak, and Jhajjar districts of Haryana state with selected 61, 47 and 33 number of Photovoltaic Water Pumping System (PWPS) farmers from each district, respectively. In this way a total number of 141 respondents were selected in the sample for the study. The study revealed that maximum number of respondent fell under medium technical knowledge, general knowledge and overall knowledge in Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar districts. Majority of respondents favorable attitude towards PWPS in all three districts. According to aspects wise farmers' attitude towards PWPS the statement “PWPS is better than the electricity or diesel water pumping system” occupied the top position. in Hisar and Rohtak district farmers, while in district Jhajjars 'farmers the 1st rank statement is, “PWPS is most important factor to sustain the grain revolution”. land holding, education, socio-economic status, extension contact , source of income, and risk orientation were found to have positive and significant regression coefficient whereas age, caste, occupation, house type, social participation, material possession, farm power, family type, change proneness and fatalism were found to have positive but non significant regression coefficient with the knowledge of PWPS farmers.

Pages: 786-788
Sushant Bhardwaj, Divakar Chaudhary, and Yogesh Jamloki (Department of Processing and Food Engineering, COAE&T, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar)

The mechanization provides an opportunity to rural youth for entrepreneurship development through custom hiring of improved farm machines, processing machines, providing repair and maintenance facilities/ Farm machinery service centers. But there is need to educate the village youth in proper utilization, operation, repair and maintenance of the machines. In the present work program was made in dot net language which will be very helpful in guiding the famers about cost economics of any farm machines. As rural economy is agriculture based, the development in the rural sector will be possible through engineering interventions in agriculture. Introduction of need based gender friendly farm tools and equipment, agro-processing machines, suitable water saving technologies, viz., drip and sprinklers, farm ponds and solar gadgets will be very helpful in upliftment of the rural economy. The awareness about the new technologies and their technical know-how will also be the key points for upliftment of the farmers.

Pages: 793-795
Sunil Kumar Agrahari (Department of HRD, Disha-A Resource Centre for Multiple Disabilities, Jaipur, Rajasthan )
Anuradha Kotnala (Department of Psychology, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Shantikunj, Haridwar, Utterakhand)

The purpose of the present study was to compare the life satisfaction and job anxiety of Policeman and Teachers. For this research work, the quota sampling techniques will be used for the selection of the subjects. In all there will be 60 person of Mirzapur District, Utter Pradesh, in which 30 Policeman and 30 Teachers were selected. Subject's age limit was 20 to 40 years old. The Life Satisfaction Scale developed by Alam and Ramji Shrivastava and Job-Anxiety Scale developed by Srivastava ware used. Results indicated that there is significant difference between life satisfaction and job anxiety of Policeman and Teachers. It clearly shows that Policeman scored lower on life satisfaction than Teachers, but higher on job anxiety because the reason for the low life satisfaction and high job anxiety in the policeman is due to his busy routine, stressful life, lack of socialization, excessive pressure of officers and no proper time for family and other members of society etc., whereas high life satisfaction and low of job anxiety in the teachers is due to systematic routine, happy life, socialization, low pressure of officers and enough time for family and society members.

Pages: 799-801
Sharma K. and Mishra S. (Department of Education, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh)

Well-being is about lives going well. It is the combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. It is often observed that working women and non working women are different and as a result they require different kinds of support to enable them to cope effectively with their chosen roles. The present paper is an attempt to study of well-being of working and non-working women. Working women identify work, children and household duties as the most frequent stressors, whereas non working women identify children, finances and as stressors. Working women are often tossed between home and job as compare to non-working women because the double work pressure affects their family environment, marital adjustment, stress, quality of life satisfaction. Finally we can conclude that there is significant difference in well being of working and non working women. Working women handle situation at home as well as in their offices. The findings of the study may be useful and helpful to set up different programmes and policies for creating awareness regarding various issues of women.

Pages: 804-809
Jaya Jotwani and Dinesh Nagar (Department of Psychology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)

Residential satisfaction in high rise apartment complexes have been emerged as influencing frameworks in psychology and personal life satisfaction, health and well-being. In the Indian context very few studies on residential satisfaction has been conducted in high rise residential complexes. The present study attempts to examine the main and interactional effects of floor level and gender on evaluation of complex amenities, community life style, health, happiness and residential satisfaction. Three hundred male and female residents participated in the present survey. A 2x2 factorial design structure involving gender (male vrs females) and two floor levels (higher vrs lower) was utilized. The main effects of gender and floor levels on major outcome variables were not found significant. While looking at the results it seems very clear that substantially large number of residents exhibited moderately high level of satisfaction with complex amenities, reported moderately high level of residential satisfaction and better community life style in the complex. Moreover, a large number of significant interactional effects between gender and floor levels on social support, health, happiness and residential satisfaction were found. Some of the results are found consistent with the previous studies. Implications of the results are discussed.

Pages: 814-818
Savita Rathour and Tejpreet Kaur Kang (Department of Human Development, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

Spiritual intelligence is the mental capacity of an individual that makes an individual aware of self and transcendental aspect of one's existence, enhance meaning of self and helps to mastery the spiritual state. The adolescence period is the best time to develop positive emotions and skills, because adolescents are seeking to find their identity and their future personality at this period. Spiritual intelligence has a significant influence on the quality of life and it goes without saying that adolescence is a sensitive period which requires specific training to make a brighter future and be exposed to the difficulties. The present investigation aimed to explore the levels of spiritual intelligence among male and female adolescents and its association with selected socio personal factors. The sample comprised of 400 college going adolescents (equally distributed over locale & gender; 200 rural & 200 urban; 200 males & 200 females) in the age range of 18-20 years belonging to intact families. The sample was randomly drawn from government and private colleges of rural and urban Ludhiana. The Roqan Spiritual Intelligence Test by Zanuddin and Ahmed was used to assess the spiritual intelligence of the respondents. It comprised 78 items distributed over six dimensions. The results of the study revealed that locale wise, there was no significant difference among adolescents while, gender wise analysis revealed significant difference in dimensions of interself, spiritual actualization and value orientation. Female adolescents were found to be more inclined towards spirituality in comparison to male adolescents. It was also found that gender was significantly associated with interself and biostoria dimensions.

Pages: 823-828
Ishita Chatterjee and Debobani Saha (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The nursing role is rapidly evolving as nurses are tasked with an even wider range of healthcare responsibilities. With an increase in complexity and demand for better healthcare system, the roles of nurses have become more challenging. A poor mental health and quality of sleep of nurses can have an impact on their day to day functioning which in turn can pose a threat, especially on the patients of critical wards as compared to other wards, because they require complex assessment and high risk treatments. Moreover, nurses are often scheduled to do rotating shifts (i.e., day, evening, night) and also have to work overtime to provide quality care to their patients around the clock. Abrupt deviations from normal timing of work often disrupt one's internal biological clock. The present study aims to trace and compare the dimensions of positive mental health status and quality of sleep among nurses of critical and general ward of private hospitals with an age of 21 to 31yrs.To collect data, quantitative and survey research was conducted. The result showed no significant difference between the nurses of two wards with regards to their mental health status. But on the other hand, the critical ward nurses showed poor quality of sleep which is more related to 'sleep duration' and 'sleep latency'. The study can be important for the administrative staffs of private hospitals, so that they can recommend and make arrangements for nurses and their duties accordingly.

Pages: 833-836
Sapna Lal and Manju Kanwar Rathore (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan)

Late adolescence which signifies a prominent stage of life course as going to college is a key life transition it signifies a marked change in daily routine. Television plays a significant role on the lives of adolescent's .Television an adaptive medium act as a bridge between establish routine and new life style. Adolescents are aware of the reflections of the role of the television in transitional stages in their lives. The present study was conducted to assess the television viewer ship pattern among college going adolescent students. The study was conducted in colleges of central and south Delhi. A sample of 60 college students (male & female) both was taken of age group 17-19 years. Exploratory research method used to study and data have been analyzed both quantitavely and qualitatively. The study also revealed that despite the rise of internet use television is apparently still an essential component of leisure activity. The findings should assist the educators how viewing television programmes impact college going adolescents. In television industry where target audience are mostly adolescents with the advent of different media use television channels can modify channels as per changing viewer ship preferences in adolescents.

Pages: 841-844
Amina Haya P. V. and Farah Haris (Department of Psychology, Farook College, University of Calicut, Malappuram, Kerala)

The study aims to understand the parental stress and coping strategies among parents of autistic children. The samples include 40 parents of autistic children, all from Malappuram district of Kerala. Structured Questionnaires of Parental Stress and Coping were used to assess parental stress and coping respectively, which are prepared by the investigator. It was hypothesized as there is a mean score of parental stress among participants. Further hypothesized as, there is a mean score in coping. Concluded that, parents with autistic children have stress and they cope with it. Results of the study can be beneficial to child psychologists, psychiatrist and other mental health professionals.

Pages: 849-853
Mrinalini Mahajan (School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra)

Childhood trauma is a widely prevalent phenomenon often neglected due to the taboos attached to it. Yet its consequences for the development of the individual cannot be ignored. Children with histories of adverse childhood trauma tend to display complex disturbances with varied individualized presentation due to developmental delays across a broad range including but not only limited to cognitive, language, motor and socialization skills. The significance of the presentation of these responses for therapy is highlighted here. The aim is to review current literature on the neurobiology of childhood trauma and its implications for therapy. The keywords such as Neurobiology of trauma, prevalence, the adverse childhood experience studies, and recent advances in trauma based therapy were entered into search engines such as Google search, Pubmed. Over 40 accessible full length articles were reviewed. The key findings suggested that trauma at different stages in childhood leads to adverse effects in the developmental process of the individual. Children with background of trauma are unable to capitalize on opportunities for socio-emotional learning during the critical periods of brain development. Severe trauma originating in the childhood has the ability to override any genetic, constitutional, social and psychological factor contributing to resilience due to its ability to alter biological stress systems. Experience of childhood trauma has the capacity to severely impact the physiological and psychological functioning of the individual.. Thus there is a need to integrate and individualize therapeutic interventions to help individuals overcome their traumatic past.

Pages: 857-860
Swati Shrivastava and Priyamvada Shrivastava (School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

The purpose of this study was to compare stress level in male and female adolescents out of total sample of 100 adolescents (50 male & 50 female). Stress test comprising dimensions of stress of home life, Stress of school performance, stress of school attendance, stress of romantic relationship, Stress of peer pressure, Stress of teacher interaction, stress of future uncertainty, Stress of school / leisure conflict, Stress of financial pressure, Stress of emerging adult was used. All the participants considered in study were from several government and private schools of Durg district (C.G.) India. The data was analysed using Mann-Whitney U test. The main findings showed that female adolescents significantly showed more stress in school performance, teacher interaction, Stress of school / leisure conflict and peer pressure than male adolescents. Male adolescents showed significantly more stress in stress of romantic relationship than female adolescents.

Pages: 865-868
Jafar Bahreini and Mahboobeh Chinaveh (Department of Psychology, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The purpose of this study was to compare the social anxiety, physical image and psychological well-being in applicants for cosmetic surgery and non-applicants.The research design is a descriptive-comparative study the statistical population of this study included all people who referred to beauty clinics in Shiraz due to the need for surgery. To do research, two groups of people who applied for beauty and non-adolescent subjects were selected. In this way, 50 people who were selected from beauty clinics in Shiraz were selected in the available manner. Then, 50 unincorporated people from the normal population who were more similar in terms of gender, age and education to the applicant group were matched and voluntarily selected using the available method and completed the questionnaires. The instrument of measurement was Fisher's body image test, Reif psychological well-being and Watson's social anxiety inventory. The results of t-test and multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there is a significant difference between the physical image of the applicants for cosmetic surgery and non-applicants.There is also a significant difference between the social anxiety of the applicants for cosmetic surgery and non-applicants, and social anxiety in the subjects is more beautiful than normal people. According to other results, there was a significant difference between the psychological well-being of applicants for cosmetic surgery and non-applicants, meaning that the psychological well-being of those applying for beauty was less than ordinary ones. Based on the last result of the physical image, it could negatively and significantly predict social anxiety.

Pages: 872-873
Saroj Yadav and Mona Verma (Department of Textile and Apparel Designing, I. C. College of Home Science Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Textile finishing is a diversified sector due to the processed raw materials, manufacturing technique and finalized products. Natural finishes comprises of those substances that are obtained from plants and animals. Natural finishes have many advantages such as non toxic, non irritant, biodegradable, cost effective, easy availability, etc. now days consumers are more aware and conscious about health, hygiene and environment so they are looking for natural product having potential like synthetic products to impart antimicrobial, aroma finish to textile products. So there is need to screen the present of phytochemicals in the plant extract because it plays an important role in imparting antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant property to textile material and also helps in dyeing and printing of textile material. In the present study phytochemical analysis of peepal leaves was done to know the presence of different phytochemical. It was found that it showed the presence of alkaloids, anthraquinone, phenol, saponins, steroids and tannins was observed in both mediums of extraction.