Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 177-182
Tarika Sandhu, Sargun Sandhu, Jasvir Kaur, and Harpreet Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

Kaschak (1992) has aptly expressed the origin and implications of self-objectification in the quote, "It is in the eye of the beholder, in which women's appearance is reflected, evaluated, and given meaning”. There's an increasing trend of reducing women's bodies as objects of marketing in contemporary media. More concerning still is the documented increase over time in the objectification and an increase in body image consciousness in younger girls. The study focused on reducing detrimental effects of self-objectification on teenage girls using Self-Enrichment skill training. It comprised of 4 sessions for the N=60 adolescent females high on self-objectification. (age ranging 15-19 years). The Self-Enrichment training is based upon the principles of self-awareness and selfregulation. A pre post experimental design was used to assess efficacy of the training. The Self-Objectification questionnaire by Fredrickson and Roberts (1997 to determine the level of objectification and its psychological impact. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences between the pre-and post-treatment scores of the participants. Implications of the study point towards effectiveness of the Self-Enrichmentskill training in helping young girls overcome media induced self-objectification thereby paving way for greater self-discovery.

Pages: 188-192
Shilpa Kamboj and Sarvdeep Kohli (Department of Psychology, M. D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

The present investigation was conducted to explore the role of achievement goals and locus of control in academic dishonesty among adolescents. A sample of 150 senior secondary students was selected. Participants completed achievement goals questionnaire, intellectual achievement responsibility scale and academic cheating scale. Results revealed that there was significant negative association of mastery approach goals and locus of control with academic cheating. Whereas, significant positive relationship was observed between performance avoidance goals and academic cheating. Further, locus of control and mastery approach goals were came out to be negative predictors of academic cheating. The results and implications have been discussed at length in the paper.

Pages: 199-202
R. N. Singh (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

This paper deals with the concept of narcissism as a construct of personality in Psychology, its components and also its inherent characteristics as it affects the narcissist himself and also the people in his network. It is regarded as a personality disorder as there are so many negative and damaging characteristics inherent in narcissism. The present view regarding its variants is also highlighted in the paper. The narcissism is regarded as an aspect of the dark triad of personality. The grandiosity, lack of empathy in narcissists towards others, quest for power, dominance and exploiting others are the defining features of the narcissist, but unfortunately they do not realize it. It is a difficult task to protect from them, yet some useful suggestions are offered in the paper as the means to deal with the narcissists. As regards their treatment, psychologists are of the view that it is almost impossible. Besides it, implications of this paper, limitations and suggestions for future researches are also underlined.

Pages: 206-209
Anjana Goyal1, Reena Doomra2, Natalia Thakran3, Megha Monga4, Rohit Raj5, and Saiyam Gupta6 (Department of Biochemistry, Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, Haryana1,3,,4,5,6, and Department of Pharmacology, Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, Haryana2)

To fight any battle the basic yet one of the most important weapon is self-awareness. This was well observed in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as the cases per day started going down globally, not forgetting the selfless service of the concerned authorities. Now the new variants have been discovered, it was decided to conduct a survey in order to test the awareness of students of Manav Rachna Dental College (MRDC), Faridabad towards the New Covid-19 Variants. This was done through an online survey, and data was studied and analysed to get a picture how well aware the young minds were. A total of 230 students had given their assent to take part in this online survey. The questionnaire was made through Google forms and was distributed via WhatsApp and other social media platforms. It included a total of 18 questions each testing the awareness of students towards the new Covid-19 variants. A variety of responses were obtained from the survey form. Their study revealed that most of the students were aware of the new Covid-19 variants and had knowledge about their so far discovered virulence properties and vaccine response but more than half of them didn't have an idea about their origin. Almost all were highly aware of the basic safety protocols of Covid-19 and its common symptoms. Also, it was surprising as well as satisfying to see that those who were not aware had keen interest in learning about these variants. Most of the students were well aware of the so far discovered virulence nature, vaccine response of the new Covid-19 variants but only half of them actually knew about their name and origin.

Pages: 213-216
David Bennett and Roquel Hylton (School of Business and Management, University of the Commonwealth Caribbean)

With a dramatic increase in the shortage of nurses in the Caribbean, the issue of organizational commitment is very imperative for retaining these nurses. This paper attempts to determine the relationship between the predictability in organizational commitment in terms of the components of job satisfaction including extrinsic and intrinsic satisfaction among nurses working in a healthcare facility/hospital in the Caribbean. Data were collected from 100 nurses in two public multi-disciplinary hospitals in the Caribbean, using a self administered questionnaire. The sampling technique used for the study was convenience sampling. The questionnaire used in the study had three sections: A Personal Data Form, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), and Klein Unidimensional Targetfree (KUT) scale. The Person Data Form component of the survey consisted of characteristics such as gender, level of education, and years working at the hospital (duration of work). In the study there was a stronger positive correlation between the extrinsic satisfaction components for nurses and organizational commitment, rs (100) = 0.644 p < .01, than the intrinsic satisfaction components of job satisfaction for nurses and organizational commitment, rs (100) =0.403, p < 0.01. The findings of this study should assist hospital managers/leaders to examine these factors in nursing practice to achieve a higher level of retention among Caribbean nurses.

Pages: 221-225
Shahla Habibi, Aminallah Fazel, and Mahbobeh Fouladchang (Department of Psychology, Arsanjan Branch Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The aim of this study was to investigate marital satisfaction, mental health and stress in culturally employed women and non-employed women in Shiraz in 2006. In the present study, a sample of 200 employed and non-employed women was selected. Enrich questionnaire with 47 questions was used to measure marital satisfaction, GHQ questionnaire with 28 questions was used to measure mental health and 65-point questionnaire was used to assess stress. The results show that there was a positive and significant relationship between marital satisfaction and general health. There is also a negative relationship between marital satisfaction and stress. There was a significant negative relationship between stress and general health. There was no significant difference between marital satisfaction of employed and non-employed women. There was a significant difference between the general health of employed and non-employed women, meaning that the general health of unemployed women was higher than that of employed women. There was also a significant difference between the stress of employed women and nonemployed women, meaning that the general health of unemployed women was higher than that of employed women. There was also a significant difference between the stress of employed and unemployed women, so that the stress of employed women was more than unemployed women.

Pages: 229-232
Neeraj (Department of Psychology, D.J. College Baraut, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh)

The present study aimed at determining the effect of industrial environment on health status, mood states and wellbeing among workers in sugar factory. The final sample was consisted of 120 male respondents (60 factory workers & 60 non-factory workers) with the help of purposive sampling method from west Uttar-Pradesh. Age of the subjects ranged from 25 to 35 years. The Mood-States questionnaire constructed and standardized by Kapoor and Bhargave, CMI health questionnaire by Prasad and Verma, Well-being scale by Rai and Gupta were used. The data was analysed using Mean, S.D. and t value. The findings of the research revealed that the factory workers having low well-being scores than that of non factory workers. The results indicate that the analyses of scores as different mood states dimensions explicates that the factory workers have higher mean scores than that of non factory workers. Similarly, the findings of the investigation indicate that there is a significant difference in the health scores of factory workers and non factory workers. These results are discussed in the light of theoretical and empirical studies.

Pages: 236-239
Sanya Aggarwal (Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, New Delhi)

Although there is a lot of ongoing research on understanding the clinical features and management of the COVID19 epidemic as it spreads, there has been relatively little concern about the effect of the pandemic on one's mental health. Using a mailing questionnaire process, I investigated the cognitive effect of the pandemic and explanations for higher levels of stress and anxiety in high school students in this research report. The majority of the participants cited social alienation and online education as the primary causes of their frustration and helplessness. These results support the hypothesis that the pandemic has a detrimental effect on students' mental and physical wellbeing, resulting in low productivity and irritability.

Pages: 243-246
Priyanka Jangra and C.K. Singh (Department of Human Development and Family Studies Choudhry Chran Singh Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, Haryana)

Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Force employee wellbeing is an important factor in quality, performance and productivity. Life and job satisfaction is a 'general attitude towards one's life and job'. It describes how satisfied an employee is with his or her work and life. Common aspects of job and life satisfaction are: awareness, communication, co-workers, benefits, personal work conditions, organization itself, organizational policies and procedures, pay, personal growth, promotional opportunities, recognition, safety and monitoring .Research has been carried out focusing on specific factor of life satisfaction that affect well-being of police personnel. A simple randomized testing procedure was used to select a sample of 240 police officers in the state of Haryana. General Well-Being Scale developed and standardized by Chauhan and Didwania (2015) was used to assess the Well-Being of police personnel. General Well Being Scale comprised of 50 statements having 5 response alternatives. Life satisfaction scale (LSS) developed by Alam and Shrivastava (2001) was used to measure life satisfaction and for data collection. Step wise regression was used to find the significant difference or life satisfaction among police personnel for assessing the well-being. It was found that most significant variable of well-being like social (beta=0.11), economic (beta=0.21), health (beta=0.19), job(beta=0.21), personal (beta=0.01), marital (beta=0.74) and composite life satisfaction(beta=0.28) were on the topmost of the list and also there was significant difference among life-satisfaction and well-being of police personnel.

Pages: 132-135
Sheshank Gangwar (ASMC, Shahjhanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
Poonam (Clinical Psychologist (Varun Arjun Medical College & Rohilkhand Clinical Psychologist (Varun Arjun Medical College & Rohilkhand Hospital, Shahjhanpur, Uttar Pradesh) Rohtash ( Clinical Psychologist, ASMC, Shahjhanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
Arunima Gupta (Department of Psychology, M.D.U, Rohtak, Haryana)

The coronavirus crisis and the restrictive measures that many countries are taking to contain the outbreak can have a negative impact on people's mental health and well-being. Isolation, physical distancing, the closure of schools and workplaces are some of the challenges which affected almost everyone causing trauma, stress, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, depression, grief and loneliness during lockdown period. The consequence on mental health seems to be instant that would carry on for a longer period of time. It becomes imperative to make an attempt in analyzing the well-being of general population. The aim of this study was to assess the psychological well-being of general population during covid-19 lockdown period. This study included 60 healthy individuals (30 male and 30 female) within the age group 20 to 50 years who were assessed through online survey from Mid-April to Mid-June. Psychological General Well-being Index was administered to assess the psychological well-being. Results were analyzed by using descriptive methods which indicated anxiety, depressed mood and psychological well-being to be moderately high in participants but on self-control, vitality and general health they were found to be average. Further significant gender differences were also evident on various dimensions of psychological well-being. The implications are discussed.

Pages: 121-123
Anupama Sihag (Department of Psychology G.M.N. College, Ambala Cantt, Haryana)

Personality and politics are at the nexus of research trends in India and abroad. Personality of voters and political leader has an influence on the voting behavior during elections. Behavioral scientist focusses on “why” of the behavior, i.e. why people vote the way they vote. Voters, during elections get influenced by various factors depending upon heir own personality type. Under the IMPRESS, ICSSR (MHRD) funded project “Psychological Correlates of Political Behavior”, this study was done on a sample of 900 respondents from the various constituencies of Haryana. There are two aspects that needs to be assessed between the personality and political behavior in terms of voting i.e. relationship and causation. A study focused on finding the personality correlates of political behavior is oriented more towards the causation. Harnessing the data from Neo-Five questionnaire and survey form, the causative relationship between the personality dimensions and voting behavior was analyzed. Binomial Regression results indicate that openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness added significantly with values p = .049, p = .0001 and p = .001 respectively. Whereas extraversion (p = .281), neuroticism (p = .289) did not add significantly. Results indicate that openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness significantly contributed towards voting behavior.

Pages: 111-115
Parul Kalia (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Sarita Saini (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)
Deepika Vig (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

Family caregivers have played an important role in our society for granting care to the aged. They are playing crucial role in our care system by providing a significant quantity of health and long-term care for the aged person, chronically ill and disabled. The act of care-giving is not an easy task and can become more tedious when one is caring for a family member who is solely depending on the primary caregiver for everything. This situation could be the reason for many challenges which can affect the quality of life of the primary caregivers. The present research has made an attempt to assess the burden of stress among the family caregivers across varying stages of adulthood who were primarily responsible for care of dependent elderly. The sample included 60 families of primary caregivers who were taking care of the dependent elderly in their family from the Ludhiana city. The Zarate Burden Interview developed by Zarit et al. (1980) was used to measure the burden of stress on caregivers. The results reflected a major proportion of primary caregivers experiencing severe level of stress along with statistically significant differences between primary caregivers of young and middle adulthood stage.