Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 601-605
Vijay Viegas and Shanmukh V. Kamble (Department of P.G, Karnatak University, Dharwad)

The present study titled, ‘An Assessment of Emotional Intelligence and Psychological skill usage among Professional Sports Players’, was intended to explore the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Psychological skill usage among Professional Sports Players and understand whether age, weekly hours of practice and number of years played influence these variables. The objectives of the study were; to investigate whether there exists a correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Psychological skill usage, to investigate whether there exits significant differences in Emotional Intelligence and Psychological skill usage with regard to age, weekly hours of practice and number of years played. 80 professional sports players were examined. The tools used for data collection comprised of the Personal and Socio-Demographic Information Schedule, Emotional Intelligence Scale by Schutte et al and Test of Performance Strategies by Thomas et al. The tools used for statistical analyses were Pearson’s correlation and ANOVA. Results indicated a positive correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Psychological skill usage. Significant differences were observed in Emotional Intelligence with regard to age and weekly hours of practice, also significant differences were found in Psychological skill usage with regard to weekly hours of practice and number of years played.

Pages: 654-663
Sofia A. Kauko-Valli (School of Business and Economics, Ohjelmakaari, University of Jyväskylä)

The present research focuses on family business-owners experience of well-being on the phenomenological level. In this study well-being was defined as a construct consisting of facets of happiness, satisfaction with life, mood and anxiety. Happiness for family business-owners was constructed as satisfaction with life, experiencing balance between challenges and resources in life, experience balance between different roles in life, being appreciated by others and experiencing life as highly meaningful. The findings support the theory of broaden-and-build by illustrating how positive emotions may change the way we interpret the world around us and further how resilience may be built over time.

Pages: 671-675
Danish Henry, Syed Muhammad Mubeen, Ali Zain and Waqar Ulfat (Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi) Zeeshan Yaqoob (Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan)

Benign thyroid disorders are common clinical entities with a prominent female preponderance. There are no studies from Pakistan that measured health-related quality of life of patients with benign thyroid disorders. This study assesses the health-related quality of life in patients with benign thyroid disorders from urban cities of Pakistan. A cross-sectional study involving 191 patients was conducted from July through November 2012 at three tertiary-care hospitals in three cities of Pakistan. An interview-based questionnaire containing the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), socio-demographics, and sleep disturbances were assessed. Data was analysed in SPSS Version 20. All ethical considerations were taken into account. One hundred and thirty-eight (72%) females and 53 (28%) males were evaluated. The mean age was 34.22 ± 11.1 years with slightly more than half (57.1%) patients were between 21 to 40 years. There was significant decrease in SF-36 scores in all domains. The scores of Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) was statistically significant (p<0.05) in males as compared to females. A significant 86% of the patients reported various sleep disturbances. Hair changes were the most common reported symptom followed by slow movements, mainly in the hyperthyroid group (42.4% and 44.1% respectively). This study reported a decrease in health-related quality of life among patients with benign thyroid disorders. The results can be helpful to plan improvements in managements of benign thyroid diseases, eventually improving health-related quality of life.

Pages: 681-686
Mir Shahid Ali, Meena Osmany and Waheeda Khan (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)
Deepti Mishra (Department of Clinical Psychology, PGIBAMS, Raipur)

The cancer is curable disease, however appropriate coping and adjustment is important in facing chronic diseases, especially during the treatment period. Regardless of prognosis, the initial diagnosis of cancer is still perceived by many patients as a life-threatening event. Patients undergoing treatment for cancer face major physical and emotional challenges. All these factors have a negative impact on prognosis of illness. Most patients with chronic illnesses suffer at least some adverse psychological reactions as a result of the disease; however, do not seek formal or informal psychological treatment for their symptoms. Instead, they draw on their internal and social resources for solving problems and alleviating psychological distress. The present study is an attempt to examine fear of death, depression and coping among cancer patients. A sample of 60 cancer patients from Apollo BSR Hospital, Bhilai (C.G.) was randomly selected. Fear of death and depression level in cancer patients were measured by the Fear of Personal Death Scale and the Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI). The Cope Scale was administered to measure their coping strategies. It was observed that 21.7% patients had fear of death; 46.7% had moderate level of depression followed by mild (38.3%). Cancer patients used Emotion focused coping (M = 11.22) more than problem solving coping (M = 8.82). Significant gender differences in fear of death and depression (P < .05) were also observed. Different treatment groups differed significantly on depression, it was more in those who were receiving both radio and chemotherapy (26.7 %) than those who were receiving only chemotherapy (20 %). The study highlights the significant level of fear of death and depression in cancer patients as a function of gender and type of treatment. Fear of death and depression was comparatively higher in female patients. Patients receiving both chemo and radiotherapy treatment were more depressed than patients receiving only chemotherapy. Emotional coping was the dominant coping style employed by cancer patients. The results of the study highlight the importance of psychological interventions and strategies to alleviate the suffering of cancer patients and thus improving their quality.

Pages: 693-697
Shantanu Halder and Kanchan Bandopadhyay (Department of Physical Education, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal )

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of physical education programme on neuropsychological variables. Only one hundred college students (Boys) whose age range between 22 to 27 years were randomly assigned to training from Bped Colleges. Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Tactile Sense and Visual Perception were measured for this study. Short Term Memory Test and Long Term Memory Test, Aesthesiometer and Muller lyer Illusion Tests were used for this study. The training sessions performed five days a week and training classes were divided into two sessions, one was in the morning and the other in the evening with the duration of one forty five minutes each session. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance was applied to investigate the existence of significant difference among Pre Treatment Phase, First Phase and Second Phases of ten months exercise programme. In conclusion significant improvement was found in case of Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory, Tactile Sense but no significant improvement was observed in case of Visual Perception after ten months of physical education training programme. Exercise not only gives health life style but also improve your neuropsychological variables so exercise is strongly recommended.

Pages: 702-706
Vandana Sharma (Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

The present study was attempted to find the relationship between career decision-making and family environment among adolescents. For the study, 300 adolescents studying in class XI were drawn from Government Model Senior Secondary Schools of Chandigarh by employing stratified random sampling. For the collection of data Career Decision-Making Inventory (CDMI; Singh, 1999) and Family Environment Scale (FES; Vohra, 1997) were administered to adolescents. For the analysis of data statistical techniques like Pearson product moment correlation, t-test and stepwise multiple regression were used. Correlation analysis showed that career decidedness was significantly and positively correlated with cohesion, expressiveness, independence and recreational orientation dimensions of family environment. Career indecision was significantly and negatively correlated with cohesion, expressiveness, independence, organization and recreational orientation dimensions of family environment. No significant gender difference was observed on the variables of career decision-making (career decidedness and career indecision). Boys and girls significantly differed only on organization dimension except all other dimensions of family environment. Regression analysis showed that cohesion and expressiveness dimensions of family environment contributed to career decidedness independently as well as conjointly. This indicated that adolescents having families high on cohesion and expressiveness were high on career decidedness. In case of career indecision, the predictors were expressiveness, organization and independence which contributed to career indecision independently as well as conjointly. This demonstrated that adolescents having families high on expressiveness, organization and independence were low on career indecision. Results of the present study demonstrated that congenial family environment is necessary for the overall development of adolescents.

Pages: 711-714
Neharshi (Department of Psychology, H.N.B. Gharwal University, Srinagar, U.K)

The present study attempts to treat Major Depression in relation to Beck's Cognitive Behavior Therapy (BCBT) and Progressive Muscular Relaxation Technique (PMRT). The study attempts to diagnose and treat a 32 years male client. Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to assess the level of depression of client. The treatment proceed in certain steps such as in starting 12 sessions, the client was treated with PMRT along with Motivational Counseling to ready the client for CBT. Once it was assured that the client is motivated and ready for counseling. He was also given sessions of CBT. The sessions of both therapies that PMRT and CBT were given simultaneously to the client. The client had taken total 28 sessions of one hour of each therapy. After the completion of treatment (6 months), it was found that the persistence of positive changes in the patient's life like continuing his job, attending parties, taking inertest in those hobbies in which he lost interest before the CBT and PMRT.

Pages: 718-722
Shweta Jha (Clinical Psychologist, Manipal University, Manipal)

A 2 year 11 month old child born of non- consanguineous marriage; with full time normal delivery in hospital. Presented to us with family history of autism and ADHD in 2nd degree cousins and she had complaints of absence of social smile, lack of eye to eye contact, lack of awareness of others with impaired speech and stereotypic play activity, and spinning objects. Highly distracted, irritable, poor concentration and attention; with no history of hearing and speech impairment and normal development until 12 month when the present symptoms were noted.

Pages: 729-731
Meenakshi Narania and Vijay Singh (Department of Psychology, Jammu University, Jammu)
The study was done to compare the attitude towards cheating of the professional and non-professional course students. In this study the sample consisted of 40 professional and 40 non-professional course students, studying in various professional and non-professional colleges in Jammu city. For the measurement of Attitude towards Cheating, Attitude towards cheating scale developed by Sharma was administered on the sample. It consists of 35 statements which are either positive or negative. Responses were to be obtained on five point scale. t-test was used for statistical analysis. The finding of this study showed that the students of professional courses have more positive attitude towards cheating as compared to the students of non-professional course. The value of t=16.45** was found to be statistically significant at .05 level between the two group of subjects.

Pages: 735-737
Anas Ali Al-Tarawneh and Naima Kahtoon (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim Uuniversity, Aligarh, U.P.)

The present study surveyed Jordanian university students in Mutah University, and asked them to Investigating of sources of stress are exposed to. A total of samples 100 male and 100 female were randomly selected their age varied from 18 to 25 years. Sources of stress scale which was developed by Alkhutaba and Nizami (2012) has been used. It was hypothesized that there are statically differences in sources of stress among Jordanian university students based on their gender; the obtained results of the present study showed that there is a statistical difference in sources of stress based on gender variable.

Pages: 742-744
Ritu Deswal and Amita Suneja Dang (Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Smiti Nanda (Department of Gynecology and Obstretrics PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana)

PCOS is the most common endocrine disorder characterized by varied symptoms and manifestations. India is a large country with an estimated female population of about 614.4 million and in most of India, the proportion of women affected by PCOS is unknown. Early diagnosis and treatment is necessary because the condition can put girls at long term health problems. Moreover, women with PCOS often feel very isolated. This highlights the need to know the exact prevalence figures. The aim of present study was to estimate the prevalence of PCOS in Haryana because the prevalence of PCOS in this region has not been studied to be best of our knowledge. A random sample of 325 reproductive aged women was selected and a cross sectional study was carried out. An interviewer administered questionnaire was prepared to screen the probable cases of PCOS. The probable candidates underwent physical and biochemical analysis and ovarian ultrasonography. Further evaluation was confirmed using Rotterdam diagnostic criteria 2003. A total of 22 cases were identified as having PCOS. The prevalence rate was found to be 6.8%. The high prevalence rate draws attention regarding early diagnosis of the syndrome in adolescent girls.

Pages: 748-753
G. Janghel and P. Shrivastava (Department of Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla university, Raipur, C.G.)

Diabetes is a progressive metabolic disorder with cumulative symptom across multiple organ system. The present study was examining in the psychosocial risk factors on the basis of reviewed in the different studies in the diabetes mellitus type-2. The study was use in electronic databases from 1984 to 2013, literature searches and review concerted in different national and international journal on published database in different electronic source and other primary studies was used in the current study. There study were total 100 studies related to diabetes and its management, and 42 studies were dealing with the etiology of diabetes type -2 and its management. The objective of the study was to find some psycho-social factors such as stress, personality, coping behaviors' and socio-demographic variables associated with the genesis and prognosis of type-2 diabetes mellitus.