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Pages: 1071-1073 Neema Sharma (Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan) Sangeeta Khullar (M. K. P (P.G) College, Dehradun, UK) The present paper aims to understand the relation of Anxiety and Subjective Well-Being in Male and Female Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) patients. Data were collected from 300 NIDDM patients, 150 males and 150 females from the age 40 -70 years. Tools used to collect data were- Subjective Well-Being Inventory ( Brinda Amritraj) and IPAT Anxiety Scale ( S. D Kapoor ) measuring 1) Q3- Perfectionism, 2) O- Apprehension, 3) Q4 Tension, 4) C Emotional Stability and 5) L - Vigilance. It was found that there exists a low but significant negative relation between Anxiety and Subjective Well-Being in NIDDM patients. It is seen that O (Apprehension) and C (Emotional Stability) are significantly related to Subjective Well-Being while the other factors are not significantly related to Subjective Well-Being. The analysis reveals that females reported a significant negative correlation between Anxiety (Q4, O, C) and Subjective Well Being while males reported a non significant relationship between all aspects of Anxiety and Subjective Well-Being. . Thus, it can be implied that 1) Anxiety has a low but significant effect on Subjective Well-Being in NIDDM patients 2) Gender influences the relationship between Anxiety and Subjective Well-Being in NIDDM patients. Pages: 1071-1073
Neema Sharma (Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan)
Sangeeta Khullar (M. K. P (P.G) College, Dehradun, UK) |
Pages: 1074-1077 T. V. Ananda Rao (Department of Psychology & Parapsychology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P.) P. Raja Sekhar (Department of Psychology, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry) B. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao (K. L University, Vijayawada, A.P.) In recent times, the need of counseling services has become essential for improving the wellbeing of the employees in organizations. Understanding various kinds of problems experienced in work and family situations would really help to provide better counseling services to employees. Personal problems that include emotional or behavioral issues like marital, family or work problems relates to the employee's attitude, motivation or interpersonal skills were addressed through counseling in various work settings. Problems related to work behavior may include, Poor relations with colleagues or customers, Becoming withdrawn from colleagues, Tensions and conflict in workplace relationships, Loss of motivation and commitment, Increased sickness and absence, Poor time keeping, Increased errors or accidents, Emotional outbursts, Deterioration in personal standards etc. The present study examines the nature of employee counseling needs and find out the influence of personal factors on them. The employee counseling needs are categorized into work, personal, group, health, and economic and psychological types. The results indicate significant types counseling needs were observed among the younger, less experienced and less educated employees. The implications of the findings for minimizing the problems experienced by employees are suggested. Pages: 1074-1077
T. V. Ananda Rao (Department of Psychology & Parapsychology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P.)
P. Raja… |
Pages: 1078-1082 S. Viswanatha Reddy (Department of Psychology, SVU College of Sciences, Tirupati) A study was carried out on 180 college going students (under graduates, graduates and post graduates) to find out the effect of gender, level of education and type of management on mental health status. Mental health status of the subjects was assessed using Mental Health Battery developed and standardized by Arun Kumar Singh and Alpana Sen Gupta. Results revealed that irrespective of level of education, women are better mental healthier than men, type of management does not show any significant impact on their mental health status and under graduates, graduates and post-graduate students differ significantly with each other. Post graduate students possess better mental healthier than graduates and under graduates. Pages: 1078-1082
S. Viswanatha Reddy (Department of Psychology, SVU College of Sciences, Tirupati) |
Pages: 1083-1087 Madnawat, A.V.S. (Department of Psychology, UOR, Jaipur, Rajasthan) Bhardwas, V.K. and Bhardwas, S. (Academy Psychologie©, Jaipur, Rajasthan) The cardinal objective of the present study was to understand the structure of set of variables viz. Gender, Types of Pranayama, Regularity of practice, Life Skills, General Mental Health Life Skills and Eco-sensory Consciousness and to reduce measures representing communalities and to reduce the data set to a more manageable size retaining much of the original information as much as possible and to understand and extract common pure and pure and relatively independent factors, if any underlying it. A purposive sample of 360 Literate Regular and Irregular Pranayama Practitioners from across diverse data with balanced number of Males and Females (25 to 60 years) was selected from Patanjali Yogapeeth, Haridwar and Yoga/Pranayama shivara organized in NCR and Rajasthan to sample the variables Gender Type of Pranayama, Regularity of Practice, General Mental Health, Regularity of Practice, Life Skills, and Eco-sensory Consciousness. Mental Health Inventory (Jagdish & Srivastava, 1983), Life Skills Questionnaire (Clements, 2004), Ecological Attitude and Cognitive Scale (Rajamanickam, 1996) were used. SPSS 17.0 was employed to compute Factor Analysis Using Principal Component Method with Varimax Rotation in an attempt to reduce the obtained R-matrix down to its underlying dimensions by looking at which variables seem to cluster in a meaningful way. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was computed on the 23 items with Orthogonal Rotation (Varimax). The KaiserMeyer-Olkin measure verified the sampling adequacy for the analysis and all KMO values for individual items were well above the acceptable limit of .5. Bartlett's Test of Sphericity x2 indicated that correlations between items were sufficiently large for PCA. An initial analysis was run to obtain eigenvalues for each component in the data. Three components had eigenvalues over Kaiser's criterion of 1 and in combination explained 0.987% of the variance. The Scree Plot was clear and showed and justified retaining three components. The Screen Plot revealed three factors. The first factor following Lexicon Hypothesis labeled as Cogito-Practicum comprised of Regularity of Practice (r = .991), Feeling (r = .940), Thinking (r = .929), Relationships (r = .943), and Integration of Personality (r = .907); explaining a total of 84.116% of variance. These observations suggest that increase in any of the consistent variance of the factor or measure is related to increase in rest of the variance. The second factor following Lexicon Hypothesis labeled as Typosyoga consisted of Type of Pranayama (r = .0257) and Oral Obligation (r = .018). Rest of measures explain a total of 4.566% of variance. These observations suggest that both measures are positively correlated. And the third factor consisted of Gender following Lexicon Hypothesis labeled as Genus (r = -.257) explaining a total of 4.397% of variance. In sum, all three factors emerged to explain a total of 93.080% variance, and the three factors emerged to be relatively independent. Here, some crucial observations deserve mention. The Oral Obligation measure loaded significantly on the second factor (r = .987). Pages: 1083-1087
Madnawat, A.V.S. (Department of Psychology, UOR, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Bhardwas, V.K. and Bhardwas, S. (Academy Psychologie©… |
Pages: 1088-1094 Sushmitha Amin and S. Gayatri Devi (Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu) Parenting can be a pleasurable experience despite its inherent anxieties, worries, frustrations and physical stress. Raising a child who is mentally challenged requires emotional strength and flexibility. The child has special needs in addition to the regular needs of all children and parents can find themselves overwhelmed by various medical, care-giving and educational responsibilities. Whether the special needs of the child are minimal or complex, the parents are inevitably affected. The mentally challenged show behavioural problems and deficits in their adaptive behaviour in various areas, such as communication skills, self-help skills, socialization, application of basic academic skills to daily life activities, social skills, vocational and social performance and responsibilities, which lead to lot of stress and depression in their parents. The sample comprised of Parents of Mentally Challenged (N=100). The tools used were Stress Inventory (SI) and Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI). Means, Standard Deviations and ANOVA, Post hoc analysis were used to analyze the data. Results revealed that the level of stress and depression reduced drastically after Positive Therapy and during follow-up phase among the Parents of Mentally Challenged. Pages: 1088-1094
Sushmitha Amin and S. Gayatri Devi (Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education… |
Pages: 1095-1098 Amreen Ahmad Ali and Neena Kohli (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP) Facebook or any other social networking site (SNS) is meant to have social interaction among individuals. The interaction via social networking has become an important part of an individual's life. The emergence of social networking sites has caught attention of psychologists leading them to study social capital, interpersonal relationship and motivation of facebook users. The aim of the present research was to understand the motivation for facebook use, how facebook enhances social capital, informational access and strengthens interpersonal relationship of its users. For this purpose, the most popular SNS in India was selected. 85 facebook users participated in the study out of which 62 were females and 23 were males. Data was collected online. Results indicated that motivation for using facebook is mostly maintaining offline contacts. SNS does not enhances social capital and informational access of its users. Not even it strengthens their interpersonal relationships. The correlational analysis revealed that with increase in the amount of time spent on facebook social capital and informational access also increases. And with increase in social capital informational access also increases. Pages: 1095-1098
Amreen Ahmad Ali and Neena Kohli (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP) |
Pages: 1099-1103 Aparna Bhattacharya and Archana Shukla (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, UP) The purpose of the present paper is to highlight the threats in living and loving in the times of HIV/AIDS. HIV destroys the immune system and makes the body waste away. With reduced immune functioning come several opportunistic infections resulting in AIDS. HIV outside the human body is very fragile (easily destroyable); once inside, it is there for keeps. Nothing can then be done to remove the HIV virus. Once infected, the condition can only be managed with drugs. Since HIV is behaviorally acquired, its prevention is easy. To remain healthy and sero negative all one has to do is avoid indulging in high risk behaviors. Yet surveys indicate that HIV transmission rates have been increasing with some 33.4 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. This paper reviews the changing social trends with respect to educational and economic development, permissiveness and independence, increased mobility, exposure to western egalitarian norms, inter caste/religion/regional marriages, varying sexual orientations and a preoccupation of youth with social networking sites. There are also an increasing number of live-in relationships, distant relationships, gay/lesbian relationships, one night stand, and relationships with multiple partners. Some of these changes could predispose one to indulge in high risk behaviors and thus become vulnerable to HIV and STIs besides falling prey to other social, emotional, and legal problems. Social change is inevitable. It is often desirable too. The need of the hour is to develop strategies for making informed choices and indulging in healthy responsible behaviors. The transmission of HIV and STIs can be prevented by awareness building, life skills training to adolescents and young adults, enabling parents to discuss gender, sex and sexuality issues with their young children in a non threatening environment. We must remember that with freedom, power and fun comes a great deal of responsibility. We need to adapt to the social change by engaging in safer practices. Moral values, self respect, problem solving and negotiation skills and informed healthy choices should therefore be every ones concern in current lives and times. Change is the way of life. Adjusting to the changing social scenario in a healthy and responsible way is the concern of the present paper. Pages: 1099-1103
Aparna Bhattacharya and Archana Shukla (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, UP) |
Pages: 1104-1107 Arpita Acharyya (Department of Psychology, MBB College, Agartala) The present study aims to examine the relationship among Mathematics Anxiety, numerical ability and gender difference of a sample of tribal (Tripuri, Reang, chakma and Mog) male and female students of Tripura. A 10 statement math anxiety survey test by Ellen Freedman (2008) and numerical ability test, a subtest of DAT by Ojha was used to collect the data. Sample was divided into 2 groups, 50 boy and girl children and 50 male and female adolescents. The findings of the study indicate that in childhood there was no effect of gender difference in Mathematics Anxiety. But during adolescence, the Mathematics Anxiety of females became much higher than their male counterparts. It has also been found that students who have high level of Mathematics Anxiety have low level of numerical ability. It helps the present researcher to assume that the Mathematics Anxiety, as a result of social learning, hinders the tribal adolescent girls to do well in numerical Performance. Pages: 1104-1107
Arpita Acharyya (Department of Psychology, MBB College, Agartala) |
Pages: 1112-1114 Deepti Dhurandher, Priyamvada Shrivastav and Bansh Gopal Singh (SOS in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chattisgarh) The purpose of this research was to study to find out the role of personality factors in diabetes type2 management among male and female patients. Diabetes Management has been considered with respect to diet, exercise, glucose testing and medication. The summary of diabetes self care activities (SDSCA) by Toobert and Glasgow (1994) was utilized to evaluate self care practices of type 2 diabetes patients. Second order personality factor were measured, with the help of 16PFquestionnaire developed by Cattell. Second order personality factor were divided into four dimensions, which are Factor I (Adjustment vs. Anxiety), Factor II (Introversion vs. Extraversion), Factor III (Tender minded vs. Alert poise), Factor IV (Subduedness vs. Independence). Regression analysis was computed to analyze data, obtained from the sample of male (40) and female (40) diabetic patients, separately. It is observed that personality second order “Factor III” has significant role in determining the diet management among male patients. Second order “Factor II and IV” of 16PF contribute significantly role in exercise management and also “Factor III” for glucose testing management among female patients. The positive relationship on Factor III indicates that male patients who are enterprising, decisive, and resilient personality will be better diet management among male diabetic patients. The negative relationship on Factor II and positive relationship on Factor IV indicate that female patients who are shy, self sufficient, and inhibited in interpersonal contacts and an aggressive, independent, daring, incisive person will be better manage exercise and the positive relationship on Factor III indicates that female patients who are an enterprising, decisive, and resilient personality will be better manage glucose testing. Pages: 1112-1114
Deepti Dhurandher, Priyamvada Shrivastav and Bansh Gopal Singh (SOS in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla… |
Pages: 1115-1119 Divya Narang and Sarita Saini (Department of Human Development, College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana) Women, as members of a dynamic group in society, play a crucial role in positively transforming conflict situations and in building the foundations of democratic and peaceful societies. Around the world many women are victims of cultural, direct, and structural violence. However, they rarely become carriers of that violence or perpetration rather they decide to act constructively towards building a culture of peace. But, there is limited data to back up these statements which are more rhetorical than substantive. Though a woman symbolizes essential elements of both challenges: posing at once potential threats to peace and peace building resources, yet most of the time women are underestimated as positive agents of change and key actors in peace-building. A neglect of women is short-sighted and counterproductive in terms of peace building particularly in the crucial post-harmony phase with its twin challenges of violence prevention/peace maintenance and societal reconciliation and reconstruction. Men and women may have different ways of dealing with conflict based on their ascribed societal roles. Women may be discouraged from using violence if it isn't seen as feminine, while men may be encouraged to be violent to prove their masculinity. These cultural characteristics attributed to women like being nurturing and compassionate, makes it easier for women to learn and demonstrate peace. Because women are the central caretakers of families in many cultures, everyone suffers when women are oppressed, victimized, and excluded from peace building. Their centrality to communal life makes their inclusion in peace building indispensable and their gender identities allow them to do some forms of peace building that men cannot do. In addition, some women have found it advantageous to draw on skills, assets, and capacities that are available to them in oppressive patriarchal systems and harness these for productive use in peace building. Because women are half of every community and the tasks of peace building are so great, women and men must be partners in the process of peace building. This paper explores the unique role of women as peace-builders, illustrating their exceptional power and potential to effect social change. Pages: 1115-1119
Divya Narang and Sarita Saini (Department of Human Development, College of Home Science, Punjab… |
Pages: 1120-1123 Priyanka Shukla (City College of Management, Lucknow, UP) Madhurima Pradhan (Department of Psychology, Lucknow University, Lucknow, UP) HIV among young people has become a major health problem in recent decades. Despite having been discovered in the early 1980s only, it has rapidly developed into an epidemic that has caused the death of millions of people. NFHS III data (2005-06) shows that now HIV/AIDS is not the problem of urban society only but it is spreading in rural areas as well. Recent studies of sexual, drug and alcohol outcome expectancies suggest that the beliefs and perceptions of young people play a critical role in their decisions to initiate and to maintain the high risk behaviors. This paper attempts to assess HIV risk behavior and risk beliefs of young adults and also to explore the relationship between risk beliefs and HIV risk taking behaviours across gender and locale. Sample of the present study included 200 young adults (100 urban and 100 rural) comprising of 50 males and 50 females for each group between the age range of 19-26 years. To assess the participants HIV risk behaviors and risk beliefs, checklists were developed by the researchers on the basis of HIV/AIDS related literature and opinion of experts. The findings of the present study reveal that male respondents are higher in HIV risk behaviors and risk beliefs than female respondents and urban young adults are significantly higher in HIV risk behaviors and risk beliefs than rural young adults. Moreover, present paper also reveals that risk beliefs are positively and significantly correlated with HIV risk behaviours among all the four groups. These findings suggest that cognitive behavioral interventions may be an effective way to modify the risky beliefs of young adults so as motivate them to refrain from risky behaviours for slowing down the spread of HIV infection. Pages: 1120-1123
Priyanka Shukla (City College of Management, Lucknow, UP)
Madhurima Pradhan (Department of Psychology, Lucknow University… |
Pages: 1124-1127 Mukesh Nagar (Medical Officer, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi) M. S. Punia (Community Medicine, Pt BD Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana) Anita Punia (Senior Medical Officer, Pt. BD Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana) Shweta Goswami, Amandeep Kaur, Raghvendra, H. and Anuradha (Post Graduate student, Pt BD Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana) Kiran Nagar (Post Graduate, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur) An estimated 2.39 million Indians are currently living with HIV. In 2004, the Indian government began providing free antiretroviral therapy (ART), through ART centers. Adherence to ART is the most essential component of treatment success in HIV care. ART demands a minimum of 95 percentage adherence to avoid viral resistance and treatment failure. There is limited information available from Haryana on adherence to ART and its predictors. So this study was planned to determine patient adherence to ART and associated factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the ART Centre at Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana from December 2010 to May 2011. A total of 400 patients aged 18 years and above were selected randomly and interviewed using a pretested semi-structured schedule, after taking their written informed consent. The data collected were compiled in MS Excel and analysed using appropriate statistical tests. The mean age of patients was 35.33 years. The median time on ART was 20 months. Average 7-day adherence was 94.34 per cent. 23.5% reported missed doses over the past 7 days; 65.5 per cent of them reported missing a full day's medications. Common reasons for missing doses were “traveling / away from home” (27.6 %), “simply forgot” (21.6%), “ran out of pills” (17.2%) and “busy with other things” (13.8 %). There is a need to create an understanding among patients, their families and health care providers regarding importance of adherence to ART; and develop validated low-cost interventions that optimize adherence. Pages: 1124-1127
Mukesh Nagar (Medical Officer, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi)
M. S. Punia (Community Medicine… |
Pages: 1128-1131 Geetika Patnaik (Department of Psychology, BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar) The field of global mental health has recently emerged, which has been defined as “the area of study, research and practice that places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide”. Moreover, people who are mentally healthy can deal with difficult situations in a better manner (Smith & Segel, 2011) and they remain focused, flexible and creative at all times. The period of adolescence is a time of redefining and developing relationships with parents, peers and society. Biological changes interact with psychological characteristics of the person and the changes in the social environment influence the adolescent's mental health that affects psychological wellbeing to a great extent. Psychological wellbeing is characterized by self acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, environmental mastery, autonomy and positive emotions. Teenagers of today are a pressurized lot. The fear of humiliation because of below par performance, lack of self confidence to confront the ever changing challenges and the need to work like robots are all pervasive. The present paper enumerates the problems of stress, depression, academic achievement and life skills in general of adolescents in the present socio-cultural scenario. Mental health is not an end in itself but it should be treated as a means to achieve and enhance psychological wellbeing to lead a goal-directed meaningful life, which in turn nurtures good mental health. Pages: 1128-1131
Geetika Patnaik (Department of Psychology, BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar) |
Pages: 1132-1136 Atanu Das (Rabindra Mahavidyalaya Champadanga, Hooghly, West Bengal) Gopal Chandra Saha (AFC C license Coach, Department of Physical Education, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal) Resistance running has also proven to be a safe and effective method of conditioning for individuals with various needs, goal and abilities. The research scholar was very much interested to learn that the effectiveness of resistance running out of many available training techniques for scientific and systematic manifestation of specific strength endurance potentialities which were admired as the prerequisites factor for top sports performance and that too on tribals as well as non-tribals school boys and thereby such study was being undertaken. The purpose of the study was to find out the comparative effect of resistance running on vital capacity between untrained tribal and non-tribal school boys. To facilitated the study, twenty tribal and twenty non-tribal school boys of 8th and 9th standard were randomly selected from each categories as the subjects for this study. Subjects were randomly assigned to experimental and control group selected from each category as the subjects for this study (N=20). The Resistance running training was executed in the evening session on three alternative days (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) in a week for twelve weeks. In this study, the variable under taken were Vital Capacity measured by Wet-Spirometer, which was recorded to the nearest in liters. In order to find out the existence of significant differences between the experimental group and control group in each category as well as between tribal and non-tribal school boys on vital capacity undertaken in this study in pre, post and adjusted post-test phases, the analysis of co-variance statistics was applied. Further, in order to find out the existence of significant difference between tribal and non-tribal school boys in vital capacity, the Post hoc-test was used between the paired group means in tribal as well as non-tribal school boys categories. The level of significant was set at 0.05 level of confidence. Based on the findings it was concluded that resistance running was best to be used in developing vital capacity of human body and also suggested that due to the effect of Resistance running training, untrained tribal school boys showed better performance in Vital capacity than untrained non-tribal school boys. Pages: 1132-1136
Atanu Das (Rabindra Mahavidyalaya Champadanga, Hooghly, West Bengal)
Gopal Chandra Saha (AFC C license Coach… |
Pages: 1137-1140 Damanjit Sandhu, Haroon Shafiq and Bikramjeet Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab) Physical activity is any form of movement that causes our body to use energy. Physical activity can not only help individuals maintain a healthy weight and therefore reduce the risk for obesity, but also associated with a lowered risk for developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis. It has also been suggested that physical activity may improve mental health and quality of life. Physical activity can promote mental well- being, prevent mental health problems and improve the quality of life of those experiencing mental health problems and illnesses. The present investigation aimed to study physical activity in relation to mental health. Adult physical activity was studied in relation to mental health. A representative sample of 200 males, of age range 40 to 45 years was drawn from Malerkotla City. The subjects were administered International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) - Long Forms (Craig, et al., 2003) and General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ) (Goldberg & Williams, 1991). Pearsons' Product Moment Correlational Analysis reveals that Physical Activity is inversely correlated with somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia , social dysfunction, & severe depression. Better Mental Health is evident when adult males are physically active. Pages: 1137-1140
Damanjit Sandhu, Haroon Shafiq and Bikramjeet Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab) |
Pages: 1141-1145 Nunu Heryanto (Faculty of Education, Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia) The primary objective of this research is to establish a dynamic group-based farmers' empowerment model that aims to increase self-reliance among farmers, hence an empowerment model of education in improving farmer abilities in regard to farming. The importance of groups in farm management are, among others, to overcome institutional barriers, to make use of irrigation systems optimally, to enable the utilization of goods, capital, and ecosystem management are emphasized. Empowerment is providing an opportunity to freely choose various alternatives and make decisions according to the level of consciousness, ability, and desire, and providing an opportunity to learn from successes and failures in response to changes, to be able to control the future. In this study, scenarios such as farmer empowerment not being able to address the needs of farmer groups, agri-business efforts conducted by farmer groups being merely theory-based rather than experience-based, and independent farmer groups still constrained from business networking and capital for starting agribusinesses will be addressed. This research was also based on community empowerment, self-reliance, entrepreneurship concepts and counselling program. The methods used are mixed-methods approach with the qualitative approach being used to describe the conditions of the actual implementation; and a quantitative approach was used to test the effectiveness of the actual developed model using a pre-test and post-test experimental design applied to a single experimental group with no control group. Results of this research showed that the development of a dynamic group-based farmer empowerment model is of impact for the self-reliance of the farmers and it can be the basis to achieve autonomy and sustainability if well implemented. Pages: 1141-1145
Nunu Heryanto (Faculty of Education, Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia) |
Pages: 1146-1148 Jagdish R. Bhatt and Anjana S. Chauhan (Department of Psychology, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat) The present study has been designed to investigate the locus of control of college students and also to see their differences on gender, area of residence and education stream with locus of control. The study was conducted over a sample of 240 (120 males and 120 females) who were belong to urban and rural area. Roma Pal's locus of control scale was used. The result reported that there exists a significant relationship between locus of control of male students and female students. No significant relationship observed between locus of control of urban and rural area students. And also no significant difference was found between science and commerce students' locus of control whereas science and arts students differ significantly in their locus of control, same way commerce and arts students also differ significantly in their locus of control Pages: 1146-1148
Jagdish R. Bhatt and Anjana S. Chauhan (Department of Psychology, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat) |
Pages: 1149-1152 Thiyam Kiran Singh (Amity Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan) Rehabilitation describes specialized healthcare dedicated to improving, maintaining or restoring physical strength, cognition and mobility with maximized results. Typically, rehabilitation helps people gain greater independence after illness, injury or surgery. Rehabilitation plays a critical role in healing, repair and recovery in a wide range of injuries, illnesses and conditions: Improves speech, everyday skills and mobility in stroke, head injury and other neurological disorders, strengthens bones and promotes muscular healing after total joint replacement surgery and other orthopedic surgery and many others. (Understanding the Art and Science of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2010). This study focus on rehabilitation approaches, models, legal rights, empowerment issues, social benefits and supports from government to strengthen in the services of disability. Pages: 1149-1152
Thiyam Kiran Singh (Amity Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan) |
Pages: 1153-1156 Kavita Suri (Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Jammu, J&K) Yoga, the ancient Indian health tradition is changing the lives of the people worldwide. Yoga has the potential to play multi-faceted roles in strengthening the quality health care system. Though it is gaining popularity in recent times, the sages and rishis in India have been practicing it since ages at the high peaks of the Himalayas. But when part of these Himalayan ranges turn into the world's highest and coldest battlefield, it needs to be ensured that our soldiers guarding our dizzy heights remain in good health and endure extreme weather conditions. Perhaps, this is the reason why the Indian army has adopted yoga for its troops in the Himalayas. The present paper seeks to explore as to how at altitude varying between 10,000-21,000 feet and temperature dipping to -65 degree Celsius, where slight physical activity on the part of the soldiers leave them gasping for breath and a little negligence can either cause severe damage of human body, the DRDO's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS) lab and High Altitude Mountain Research Centre (HAMRC), Leh has devised a Yoga regime for the soldiers in posted to the region to make their lives better in the Ladakh region. Through the study of Yoga practices adopted by Indian army in Ladakh, the present paper would focus on the transformation of lives of the Indian army soldiers posted at Siachen Glacier, the world's highest and coldest battlefield and other parts of Ladakh. The paper would try to find out how Yoga is helping the soldiers to maintain healthy and stress-free lifestyle in Ladakh and helping in the physical extremes of high altitude and hypoxia, besides the psychological stresses of isolation, monotony, separation from the family etc. Pages: 1153-1156
Kavita Suri (Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Jammu, J&K) |
Pages: 1157-1160 Kishwar Jahan (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP) Harassment is the most widespread form of violence against women (Fitzgerald & Ormerod, 1993; Fitzgerald & Shullman, 1993; Gutek, 1985; Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. The study seeks to identify what are the actions taken in response to sexual harassment among working married and working unmarried women employees. A qualitative study was done, with the help of an open ended questionnaire constructed by the researcher. Sample size of the present study was 43 working women (19 married and 24 unmarried women) in the age range of 21 to 28. To find the result content analysis and chi squire was done and results revealed that vast majority of female worker experience sexual harassment. And there were no any differences between married and unmarried working women reaction against sexual harassment. Results shows they would rather shun the abuser rather than report him to either management or workmates. because Socio-cultural factors dictated their varying responses ranging from concealment due to fear of shame to ignorance of channel of legal redress. Pages: 1157-1160
Kishwar Jahan (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP) |
Pages: 1161-1164 Kamana Tripathi and Krishna Sharma (Department of Commerce, D.D.U. Gorakhpur, University, Gorakhpur, UP) Stress may be defined as "a state of psychological and/or physiological imbalance resulting from the disparity between situational demand and the individual's ability and / or motivation to meet those demands. There's a lot of pressure for the present generation students to learn more and more than in past generations. Just as it can be stressful to handle a heavy and challenging workload, some students can experience stress from regular academic work that isn't difficult enough. The present paper is an attempt to examine causes of academic stress among college students and its management. The first part of the paper deals with the concept of what is academic stress; its causes and effect on college students while the second part deals with common barriers and academic stress management strategies. Pages: 1161-1164
Kamana Tripathi and Krishna Sharma (Department of Commerce, D.D.U. Gorakhpur, University, Gorakhpur, UP) |
Pages: 1165-1166 Manjit Kumar and Poonam Sheoran (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology Murthal, Sonepat) It has been observed that there is a difference and loss of complexity in the human body between male and female. This is more prominent in the muscle strength and activity. Surface Electromyogram (sEMG) reflects the strength of muscle contraction. This gender related changes in sEMG have been associated with a reduction in the number of muscle fibers and a drop in the ratio of type II muscle fibers. In this study, we have modified our existing EMG model by populating lifelike parameters which is related to the changes in the muscle due to gender. In order to verify and identify the reasons for these changes, experiments were conducted on subjects male and female groups. Fractal dimension of sEMG, a measure of complexity was computed for both experimental and simulated sEMG signal. Results show that there was significant change in the fractal dimension of sEMG and this change was observed in both experimental and simulated sEMG. Pages: 1165-1166
Manjit Kumar and Poonam Sheoran (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of… |
Pages: 1167-1170 Masood ul Hassan and S.A. Ansari (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP) The study was intended to examine the effect of organisation's human resource development practices on employee's perceived quality working life and work identification of Engineers of Kashmir division. The sample consists of 120 Engineers whose age ranged from 24-58 years. Work identification was measured through a questionnaire developed by Shrivastava and Dolke (1978). Quality of working life and Human resource development was measured through the questionnaires developed by Shah (2000). The data was analysed by the Multiple Regression method. Pages: 1167-1170
Masood ul Hassan and S.A. Ansari (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP) |
Pages: 1171-1173 Matloob Ahmed Khan (Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) Muzamil Ahmed (Department of Psychology, Government Degree Collage, Ganderbal, Kashmir, J&K) Md. Jasimuddin Khan (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) The present study aims to study mental health of students between Sistan and Baluchestan University (Iran) and Aligarh Muslim University (India). A sample of 800 individuals was selected for this project, 400 students from Sistan and Baluchistan University Iran and 400 students from Aligarh Muslim University' India. One scale namely General Health Questionairre-28 were administered to all subjects. The obtained scores were analyzed by independent sample t-test and ANOVA. The results of independent t-test showed that there are no significant differences between two groups' i.e. Indian students have higher mean scores and showed lower mental health in comparison to their Iranian counterparts. The results of two-way ANOVA on mental health showed that there is not a statistically significant main effect for gender and also, interaction effect of gender and country in mental health is not statistically significant Pages: 1171-1173
Matloob Ahmed Khan (Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Muzamil Ahmed… |
Pages: 1174-1176 Kr. Sajid Ali Khan, Yasmeen Kausar and Md. Ali Imam (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP) Alcohol addiction is simply defined as a compulsive need for an intoxicating liquid that is obtained from fermented grain or fruit. These liquids include beer, wine, and other hard liquors. One misconception that many alcoholic and addicts seem to have is that their drinking is not affecting anyone else. Many times they make statements like, “I am not hurting anyone but myself”. There is a great deal of research and a vast amount of anecdotal evidence that the behavior of addicts and alcoholics can affect everyone around them, including family, friends, employers and coworkers. Addicted family members are more likely to be violent or emotionally abusive, and when abuse is not a factor; households affected by addiction can be highly disordered, unstable and unloving. If one have a drinking problem and have children in home, they are being affected, sometimes so profoundly that the effects last their entire life time. The most vulnerable effects of alcoholism or addiction are the children. The children of people with alcohol problems usually suffer greatly. Children of alcoholics have deep-seated psychological and emotional reactions to growing up with an addicted parent. Children of addicts often grow up socially isolated and they tend to develop emotional difficulties and behavioral problems. As they grow up, these type of issues can lead to antisocial behavior, mood disorders, and drug and alcohol abuse. Children of addicts often develop feeling of anger and resentment towards their parents. Therefore alcohol addiction is recognized as significant barriers of the empowerment of children, with the consequences of child's health, their health-seeking behavior and their adaptation of the family norms. Studies have shown that a child may be more likely to follow in footsteps of his parents and have the same addictive behaviors. It is vital that children have a positive and honest relationship with their parents. Those who suffer from alcohol abuse need to seek help immediately in order to restore and improve the family relationship. There are many supportive groups and programs available to help those families that are dealing with addiction. The first step is realizing that one' drinking has become a problem, and the second step is willing to do something about the problem. Pages: 1174-1176
Kr. Sajid Ali Khan, Yasmeen Kausar and Md. Ali Imam (Department of Psychology, Aligarh… |