Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 458-461
Manoj Kumar Rao (Department of Psychology, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, U.P.)

The present research paper deals with reactions of Indian children's to the 26/11 terrorist attacks. To assess the knowledge of terrorism to the school going children's of Eastern Uttar Pradesh who was miles away from the actual incident. The study used a survey design with a QCPT questionnaire administered to 195 students (111boys and 84 girls) in 20 public schools of standards 5-7. The questionnaire was administered within 3 week of occurrence of November, 26 terrorist attacks on the Mumbai in 2008. The mean age of the participants was 11.60 years (SD=1.42, range=9-14). The results indicate that most children's known the terrorist attack took place in Mumbai, Varanasi, Delhi, United States and all over the world. Students most frequently define terrorism as a something bad, committing crime robbery, 'the killing of innocent people' create terror and categorized terrorist as 'bandits'. They report feeling fear-horror when they hear the world 'terrorism'. This study provides preliminary information about Eastern Uttar Pradesh children's perception of terrorism in cognitive and affective domains of functioning. In general most children's in this study are knowledgeable about the terrorist attacks took place in India and around the world. It is likely that the media has had an impact on the amount of information children's receive on terrorism. Children's responses show that their definition of terrorism is akin to the original definition of terrorism.

Pages: 466-470
Vijaya U. Patil (Department of Home Science, Govt. Home Science College, Hassan, Karnatak)
Rukmini S. (Department of Psychology, Govt. Home Science College, Hassan, Karnatak)

The present study is aimed at exploring the depression anxiety and stress among middle aged male and female who are husband and wife and to study the interrelation between depression, anxiety and stress. Sample of the study consisted 30 middle aged male & 30 middle aged female who are husband & wife belong to Hassan District. They are belonging to middle & high socio-economic status. The random method was employed in the selection of the sample. The personal data sheet prepared by the investigator and DASS scale by Lovibond (1995) were used. Results indicated there is no significant difference between husband & wife regarding depression, anxiety & stress. More number of both male & female are facing severe depression. As high as 77% of male are under extremely severe anxiety and both are under mild to severe stress. The findings of the results also show positive relationship between depression, anxiety & stress.

Pages: 478-481
Sangeeta Rath (Department of Psychology, Utkal University Bhubaneswar, Odisha)
Sumitra Nanda (Department of Psychology, M.H.D. Mahavidyalaya Chhatia, Jajpur, Odisha)

An attempt was made to examine the effect of gender and academic competence on adjustment to campus of adolescents. The study adopted a 2 (academically competent adolescents versus academically less-competent adolescents) × 2 (boys versus girls) factorial design. In the present study, two hundred forty adolescents (120 academically competent adolescents securing 80% or more marks and 120 academically less-competent ones securing 50% or less marks) are randomly sampled from different urban colleges of Odisha. All the subjects were first year graduate students. The participants of all the four groups were compared with respect to their adjustment to college campus. The result indicated that academically competent adolescents scored higher in different aspects of campus adjustment like academic, social, personal-emotional, attachment to campus and overall adjustment than less-competent ones. Boys show more academic and personal-emotional adjustment where as girls show more social adjustment.

Pages: 485-486
Akancha Srivastava (TD College, Jaunpur)

The present study was designed to examine the differential effects of death anxiety in High Blood Pressure patients. 100 patients in HBP group were selected for testing. A normal group of same strength was also sampled for the purpose of comparison with patients. Death anxiety in the subjects was measured with Thakur Death Anxiety Scale developed by Thakur and Thakur (1984). The responses of the subjects were converted into scores and were subjected to suitable statistical techniques.The results obtained reveal that the HBP patients are more anxious about death anxiety in comparison to normal group. The results are thoroughly discussed and relevance of the findings are indicated.

Pages: 491-493
Narendra Kumar (Department of Education, S.G.P.G. College, Sarurpurkhurd, Meerut )
Rajive Kumar (Department of Education, N.A.S. College, Meerut )

This study attempts to assess the psychological stress and its relationship with achievement among senior secondary science students of Public Schools. A sample of students was randomly selected from different Public Schools of Meerut province. They were administered Psychological Stress Scale for Science Students developed by researcher itself which measures 12 dimensions of psychological stress. Results show that the stress dimension examination and Achievement has been emerged as the major factor causing stress, while society as the least causing factor for stress. Negative and significant correlation was observed between achievement and total psychological stress and all its dimensions. The findings from the present study would benefit various parties in the country in planning and conducting necessary programmes for the students so that stress-related factors could be reduced and better academic performance could be achieved by the students.

Pages: 497-498
Nirupama Bhuyan (Department of Psychology, Utkal University, Odisha)

This present study was designed to study the age; children develop an understanding of deception. The sample consisted of 100 participants equally distributed into five age groups (3 to 4 years, 4 to 5 years, 6 to 7 years, 8 to 9 years, and 10 to 11 years old). Again 20 subjects from each age group are collected where 10 subjects with high SES and 10 subjects with low SES are also chosen. All the participants were provided two different story comprehension and two false belief tasks. In the false-belief task, two different sub-tasks (Unknown content and Unknown location) were presented before the subjects verbally. In the unknown content subjects were asked two questions and the questions were content oriented. As well as in unknown location, they were asked two questions again, where the questions were location oriented. In the comprehension tasks children were told stories. The difference between the two tasks is that in false belief task, children were asked to respond the sub-tasks by taking into account both the content and location. But in the story comprehension task, children were asked only to evaluate the context of deception so that they would be able to explore the person being deceived in that story. Analysis of variance performed on the scores of subjects revealed that there is a significant difference noticed among the five age groups with respect to their comprehension task, unknown content and unknown location are {F(9, 90) =31.37, P<.01},{F(9,90)=38.0, P<.01}and{F(9, 90) = 2.5, P<.01} respectively. An associated result was found indicating socio economic status (SES) plays a major role in developing deception among children around their early age. The children with high SES performed better than the subjects with low SES. The specific findings obtained from this study reveal and concluded that around three to four years of age children are found to be able to understand deception in a complex way. Evaluation and exploration becomes the key objectives of children around that age.

Pages: 503-506
Nidhi Singh (IHBAS, New Delhi)
Lovika P. Shikhu (Trainee, New Delhi)
Ruchi Varma (Clinical Psychologist, New Delhi)
Vibha Sharma (Department of Clinical Psychology. Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences, Delhi)

The present study is an attempt to study the caregiver burden, and level of general well-being being among the primary caregivers of the persons diagnosed with epilepsy for more than one year. Study was exploratory in nature. A sample of 30 primary caregivers of patients with epilepsy was selected. Both males and females between age ranges of 25 to 55 years were selected from neurology OPD of IHBAS, Delhi by using purposive technique. Zarit Burden interview, and PGI general well-being measure were administered on the sample to study their caregiver burden and general well-being. All participants were psycho educated about the illness. Results showed that caregivers had poor perceived social support and mostly they were experiencing moderate to severe level of care giving burden and low general well-being. Results are discussed in the light of the need of such studies so that professional help can be provided to caregivers also, to deal with their physical, mental and social problems.

Pages: 510-511
Sahar Javed and Naheed Nizami (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP)

Today aggression is a more common and threatening problem among children in our society. Aggression refers to behavior between members of the same species that is intended to cause pain or harm. Aggression takes a variety of forms among humans and can be physical, mental or verbal. The frequency of physical aggression in humans peaks at around 2 3 years of age. It then declines gradually on average. Behavior like aggression can be learned by watching and imitating the behavior of others. A considerable amount of evidence suggests that watching violence on television increases the likelihood of short-term aggression in children. Sometime parents oppress their children which may also lead aggression in children (Displaced aggression is really a form of oppression). A child comes into the world not only with good tendencies but with bad ones too. The education of a child should include some basic training on how to struggle against and overcome bad inclinations. Parents and other elder peoples play an important role in personality development of the child. The paper would also emphasize the parental discipline technique in developing desirable behavior from Islamic perspective. To develop desirable behavior in children through love affection and praise their children, this encourages them to behave well. Our prophet loves for his grand-children Al Hassan and Al Hussain was so great that he used to kiss them whenever he saw them , it shows that Islam also follow the same rule of love and affection from children to develop desirable behavior .Islam laid out guidelines over 1400 years ago that if you have to physically discipline any living soul, you may not hit the face , head or tender parts of the body , hit hard enough to leave a mark on the skin and only spank when you feel you may lose control . In Islam we have been instructed to have patience and be merciful to our children. Islam is the only religion who puts rules and regulations for every aspect of our lives which have greater psychological implications during the process of child development. The present paper is an attempt to highlight these issues.

Pages: 515-517
Nisha Singh (Govt. College of Education, Chandigarh)

This study aimed at ascertaining differences in family stress and well being of the parents having children with and without developmental delay. To achieve the objectives of the study, Family Stress Scale (1999) by Shanmugavela and PGI General Well Being Scale by Verma and Verma (2011) were used to measure the key variables i.e. family stress and well being. The purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of fifty parents (twenty five parents having children with developmental delay and twenty five parents having children without developmental delay). Both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for the analysis of data. The findings revealed that the parents having children with developmental delay experience higher amounts of stress and lacked in feeling of well being as compared to parents having children without developmental delay. Further, it was concluded that the parents having children with developmental delay differed significantly from the parents having children without developmental delay with respect to family stress and well being. Implications of these findings for future research and clinical practice were outlined.

Pages: 521-523
O.P. Sharma, Seema, Mahesh, and V. K. Kalwania (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)

HIV is a burning issue in Health Research. The increasing rate of HIV infection affect people in countless ways and nearly every aspect of their lives. The social stigma that surrounds HIV may have adverse repercussions not only for individuals but also for their family and thus affecting their life satisfaction. The aim of this research was to study the effect of HIV infection and gender on life satisfaction. The locale was cofined to Jaipur. The sample consisted of 20 subjects in which were 10 HIV Infected (5 Male and 5 Female) and 10 were normal (5 Males and 5 Females) 2 x 2 factroial design was used. Life satisfaction scale by Alam and Srivastana (1983) was used to collect data. Data was analyzed by using Analysis of Variance. Results showed that Life satisfaction level of HIV infected person were lower that normal individuals. No effect of gender difference on life satisfaction was found. There was no interaction effect of HIV infection and gender on life satisfaction .

Pages: 527-530
Hardeep Kaur (Department of Social Work, Punjabi University, Patiala)

Disability of any type may restricts the functional ability, space and opportunity for complete participation in society. Despite the paradigm shift from charity to right based approach followed at present to promote the empo-werment of persons with disability, a vast section of society is yet to benefit from the opportunities guaranteed under the law. There are still some significant issues common to all forms of disabilities which need to be catered too both at state and society level. This paper not only outlines general frame work on disabilities but also discusses some significant issues of concern common to all disabilities.