Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 130-131
Archana Shukla and Swati Pathak (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow)

The present study endeavors to assess the attitude of males and females towards homosexuality. This study was conducted on ten subjects (five males and five females) purposively selected from lucknow city. For this purpose “Homosexuality Attitude Scale” developed by Kite and Deaux (1986) was used. The results indicate that males hold a more negative attitude towards homosexuality than do females.

Pages: 136-141
Bharti Sharma and Ajay Phatak (Department of Psychology, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi)The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the level of job satisfaction as well as the relationships between job satisfaction of teachers working in university, private and government colleges of Jaipur, Rajasthan. It aimed to find the association between the individual / demographic factors of the teachers to the Job Satisfaction scores, and it identified other important factors which influenced the teachers' job satisfaction. The respondents were 150 teachers who worked in university, private college and Government College. Data was collected by questionnaire and the instrument used was the Job satisfaction survey(JSS).Responses from the survey were statistically analyzed with one way ANOVA and stepwise logistic regression analysis. Findings showed that overall satisfaction level of teachers working in all three institutes were low wherein somewhat high satisfaction scores were seen for fringe benefits and nature of work while dissatisfaction was seen with promotion and coworkers. Status and gender played a definitive role in affecting the satisfaction scores of the respondents. University teachers and females are more satisfied with their jobs than their counterparts. On the basis of the results certain measures were suggested for increasing the job satisfaction of the academicians.

Pages: 146-152
Kalpana Sahooq (Asian School of Business Management, Shiksha Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa )

In a rapidly changing business scenario wherein effective performance is becoming the key factor for individuals, teams and organizations, there is tremendous need to constantly upgrade the existing skills/attitudes/competencies as well as motivational level to achieve global benchmarks. Success is journey, never a destination. However, to achieve success, regularly in the competitive environment requires individual frame of positive mind, attitude and self-motivation under a very difficult situations and circumstances in the workplace. So health and well-being in the workplace have become major concern in contemporary life. These topics continue to dominate the pages of practitioner-oriented magazines. More recently such topics are receiving attention in scholarly research journals. For a variety of reasons, these issues occupy a much more prominent niche in mainstream organizational research. The need for regulating new business growth is usually prompted by social and psychological perception of the employees .We need to understand the key predictors and the process of well-being. This paper tries to highlight the major components of well-being and its consequences in the workplace.

Pages: 156-159
Jaishree Jain (SS Jain Subodh PG College, Jaipur)
Dinesh Jain (Mhatma Gandhi Medical College, Sitapur)
Asha Hingar (Department of Psychology, Rajasthan University, Jaipur)

Tobacco problem is a major concern of humanity that has unfortunately not been fully recognized till date. Today the problem of tobacco abuse has assumed a greater significance on account of its proliferation among youth in various socio-cultural and economic strata. This situation has been further complicated due to fast pace social transformation brought in the society by rapid industrialization, urbanization and migration. With materialization, consumerism and individualism going ascendancy, the modern youth is drifting away from his traditional roots and is finding it difficult to cope with ever increasing social pressure, which brings in him stress and frustration. Under these conditions, they turn to activities promising relief and thus seek the solace of drugs which enables people to slip away from oppression of reality and find a refuge in a world of their own where painful feelings do not enter.The purpose of the study is to arouse the level of consciousness of clinicians and researchers to the possibility of the non genetic influence in tobacco users and to investigate the causes that are feeling of insecurity, failure, unemployment, parental attitudes, Companionship that can cause stress, anxiety and strain which might make the person prone to tobacco use. (Students above 18 years), 72 tobacco users and 72 non-tobacco users were selected from different colleges in Rajasthan state, India. They were administered the Raven's Progressive Matrices Ravens, (1988) and Academic Stress Scale, Lal, Misra and Pandey (1985). 't' test was used to find out the significant difference in intelligence and stress level between tobacco users and non-users. Intelligence remained to be a non-significant measure in differentiating between Tobacco users and Non-users. Relationship exists between academic stress and intelligence among tobacco users and non users college students. However there is a significant difference in mean scores on stress between users and non users.

Pages: 162-165
Sandeep Singh, Sunil Saini and Neelam Goyal (Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana)

The present study examines the factor structure of Peer Pressure Scale (PPS) for a group of 446 adolescents in the age group of 16-19. Initially 53 items were selected and item analyses, item discrimination and factor analysis was conducted. Based on experts' comments, primary analysis and factor analysis, few inappropriate items were discarded and 29 items were retained for final version of the scale. The reliability co-efficient Cronbach's alpha was calculated .82 for the final version of the Peer Pressure Scale. The final version of the scale comprised of four factors with 55% of variance. More future researches are suggested on different sample for reliability and improvement of the factor structure of the scale.

Pages: 170-173
Nupur Ahuja (Department of Human Development Smt.I.M.S.N. Pilani, Rajasthan)
Poonam (Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar)

Stress can have a significant effect on an adolescent's long-term physical and mental well-being. An understanding of the role of unmanaged stress during early adolescence is critical for the prevention of chronic diseases such as depression. The purpose of the study was to explore levels of stress, and use of coping strategies among adolescent's urban residential and non-residential schools of Pilani.200 adolescents, 100 from residential and 100 from non-residential schools constituted the sample. Independent variables considered were age, sex, ordinal position of child, socio-economic status of the family and type of school. Adolescents stress and coping styles were the dependent variables. In the process of investigation. “A life stress scale” by Agarwal and Naidu (1986) and coping questionnaire by Folkman and Lazarus (1985) were used. Results revealed that majority of adolescents in both settings experienced moderate levels of stress and reflected moderate adoption of coping styles. Further, comparative distribution on stress and coping styles reflects that adolescents of residential school experienced higher levels of stress and coping styles than adolescents of non-residential schools.

Pages: 179-183
Sachin (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)

The present study assesses the emotional intelligence and burnout among female teachers of private schools. The sample was comprised of 150 teachers from different English medium Private schools of Hisar, Haryana. This study provided the evidence that confirmed the relationship between emotional intelligence and burnout. In addition, the role of emotional intelligence as moderator in the stress and burnout relationship was explored and partially confirmed. Understanding emotion external also makes an indirect reference to interpersonal relationship in terms of the understandimg of emotions that others experience and express in the workplace. Furthermore, training on emotional intelligence will address aspects such as the management of positive and negative emotions and control of extreme emotion such as anger, stress and anxiety which in turn would both have a positive impact on both the professional and personal relationship in that where individual process the ability to deal effectively with these types of emotions, it will result in less conflicit within the workplace and home environment.

Pages: 187-189
Archana Shukla and Shilpa Chauhan (Department of Psychology, Lucknow University, Lucknow)

This research study is an attempt made to explore the level of quality of life among elderly males and females. The sample consisted of 20 elderly subjects (10 males, 10 females) from urban population in a family setting. The WHO Quality of Life Scale-Brief Version (WHO QOL BREF)(1996) was applied on the subjects to evaluate their quality of life on 4 domains (physical, psychological, social and environmental). T-testing of the scores indicates that there are gender differences in the quality of life of elderly on Physical and Social domains. No gender difference was found on the psychological and environmental domains. Females showed slightly better scores than males on all QOL domains (except the physical domain), though the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant. Overall, no significant gender difference was found in the quality of life among elderly.

Pages: 195-197
Radhika Soundararajan (Education Department, Saveetha University, Chennai)

Emotional intelligence (EI) is internal composure, which makes objectivity possible. EI is the answer to most of the painful issues that we are grappling with. This investigation explores the importance of EI, the skills hypothesized to contribute to the general well being of the individual in their social, emotional, and intellectual areas. The objective of the present investigation is to assess the awareness of the concept of EQ among school teachers (N=40), working (N= 34) and non-working (N=31) mothers and their perspectives regarding the need for EI training program as part of the curriculum; the age at which training should begin; and the necessity for specialized personnel to do the job was investigated with the help of a structured interview which allowed clarifications from people who were more eager to respond. Some of the commonalities and differences between the two groups are discussed

Pages: 201-203
Rajesh Kumar Lohchab (Department of Environmental Science & Engineering Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Untreated or inadequately treated municipal sewage is a major source of groundwater and surface water pollution in the developing countries and lack of sanitary waste disposal and of clean and adequate water for personal hygiene is responsible for water-borne diseases. These diseases are more prevalent in areas with poor sanitary conditions. This study was carried out to assess the condition of water resources and their associated health effects at Bhimtal. The main sources of water contaminations are poor management and disposal of sewage and solid wastes in addition to open defecation which are responsible for health problems mainly water-borne diseases at Bhimtal. Most prominent diseases reported during the survey at Bhimtal are jaundice, dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid, skin disorders, cholera, round worm, scabies, amoebiasis, and stomach problems.

Pages: 207-210
Dharmender Kumar (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, DCRUST, Murthal, Sonipat)

The contribution of information and communication technology in the field of business, health, education, social services and of course banking are growing day by day because of its wide reach and lower cost per transaction. In the present study an attempt has been made to find out the influence of contextual variables on the adoption of electronic banking in India. An empirical survey has been conducted with the help of a structured questionnaire containing a number of close ended questions. Data has been gathered covering places of North India. Further the data was analyzed using statistical methods. It has been observed in the findings that contextual variables i.e., age, gender, locality, and qualification influence in the adoption of new technology in banking sector. Urban consumers are more confident than their rural counterpart in accepting the new technology. Further younger consumers reveal more openness to change and more familiar with the technology. Male consumers use technology more than the female and well educated consumers use technology more easily than those with lower educational status.

Pages: 214-217
Anil Gupta (Department of Gastroenterology, Delhi Heart Institute and Research Centre, Bathinda, Punjab)

Sodium is an essential mineral of human body.It plays an important and diversified role in various physiological and metabolic functions of body. Disturbances in serum sodim level are generally seen in many disorders. Therefore its level would be a valuable aid to the diagnosis, severity and prognosis of the disease. The study was conducted on total 28 patients comprised of 14 patients, all male, mean age (37.36±12.4y), age group (25y-58y), with hepatitis as group-I and another 14 patients, all male, mean age (46.7±12y), age group (28y-76y) with ascitic cirrhosis as group-2 in the department of gastroenterology at Delhi Heart Institute and Research Centre - Bathinda (Pb). Diagnosis was made by case history, physical examination and confirmed by lab. investigations. Two samples independent t- test to compare sample means of group-1 and group-2, pearson's correlation coefficient and probable Error of correlation coefficient & scatter plot utilized to analyse data. group-1 showed 3 out of 14 patients (21.4%) with HCV and remaining 11 out of 14 patients (78.5%) with HAV. Group-2 showed 1 out of 14 patients (7%) with HCV ascites cirrhosis and remaining 13 out of 14 patients (92.8%) with alcoholic ascitic cirrhosis. Further results showed mean serum sodium con. (138 ± 2.36meq/L) of group-1 significantly (p < 002) higher than normal lower most value of serum sodium conc. (135meq/L). Group-2 exhibited a mean serum sodium level (127.79±3.9meq/L) significantly (p<.001) lower then the normal reference value (135meq/L) as well as with group 1. Pearson's inverse correlation coefficient (r = - 0.725) highly significant (p=.003) with probable error of coefficient of correlation (r = 0.085) observed between serum sodium and serum creatinine in ascitic cirrhotic group-2 whereas a highly weak inverse correlation (r=.009) not significant (p=0.97 ) 0btained in group -1hepatitis patients.

Pages: 221-224
Abdolmajid Bahreinian (Department of Psychology Beheshti Uneversity, Tehran, Iran)
Maryam Yavari Kermani (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
Hakimeh Aghaei (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India)

This study investigates correlation between sports and self-esteem, control source and academic progress of sportsperson and non- sportsperson school girls in groups of 35, 1. Individual sports person 2. Team member sportsperson 3. Non-sportsperson. The instrument for assessment of self-esteem was Cooper Smiths' statement of self-esteem and for assessment of internal and external control source, Rater's statement of control source was used. The research is of causative comparative type. For data analysis, descriptive statistics including mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistics including t-test for comparing the mean score of the two groups and correlation coefficient of Pearson was used for determining the correlation of the variables, and X2 Test was used to investigate the correlation between parents' level of education and employment status, and tendency of children to sport. It showed that sportsperson had a better self-esteem, control source, and academic progress as compared to non-sportsperson.