Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 105-106
M.K. Humtose (Clinical Psychology, New Delhi)
Bharathi Kumari (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi)

The objective of the study is to assess the adjustment of drug addict s, alcoholics and normals in Nagaland State. In order to fulfill the objectives global adjustment scale adult form was used for assessing the emotional, family, health and social adjustment. A total of 90 subjects (30 drug addicts, 30 alcoholics and 30 normals) were selected from Nagaland. Accordingly four hypotheses were formulated. The results indicated significant difference among the groups in all the four areas. The drug addicts have obtained significantly higher mean in all the four areas of adjustment.

Pages: 110-112
Mridula Sharma (Meerut College, Meerut)
Suneeta Shukla (K.L.S.M.V., Meerut)
Bhavna Jaiswal (Kamla Nager, Meerut)

The objective of this research is to assess the conflict management style and emotional intelligence of bank employees and to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management style. Over 200 employees working in different private and public banks in the age group of 23-60 years with minimum qualification as graduate were administered Emotional Intelligence Scale and Conflict Management style inventory. 75 employees having high emotional intelligence and 75 having low emotional intelligence were studied. The results show that there exists a relationship between the emotional intelligence of bank employees and their conflict management style. The bank employees of high emotional intelligence use collaborating style (WIN-WIN) and low use competing style (WIN - LOSE) more for resolving their conflicts. This research paper further suggests that enhancing emotional intelligence can help in resolving conflict to facilitate better mental health.

Pages: 115-118
Neeta Gupta, Renuka Joshi and Shribuni Gogoi (Department of Psychology, D.A.V.(P.G.) College, Dehradun)

The present study has tried to explore psychophysical health among Orthopedic, Hypertensive Dermatological and Normal Adults. For this data was collected on 200 respondents; 100 males and 100 females having 50 respondents in each group; Orthopedic, Hypertensive, Dermatological patients and Normal Adults. The design which is used to conceptualize the study is 4x2 factorial design : 4 groups of respondents and Sex of the respondents. Cornell Medical Index constructed by Wig, Pershad and Verma (1998) was utilized to measure the psychophysical health of the respondents. The results of the present study have revealed that; 1.Significant gender differences were obtained only in psychological/emotional health, i.e., females have reported better Psychological Health; 2. Normal Adults have reported best physical and total psychophysical health followed by Orthopedic, Hypertensive and Dermatological patients; 3.Normal females have reported best physical, psychological as well as total psychophysical health than other groups of the respondents.

Pages: 123-125
V.Hari Lakshmi (Department of Psychology and Parapsychology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam)

Caregivers of aged Alzheimer's patients were found to be particularly vulnerable to burn out and expressed feelings of anger, anxiety, isolation and depression. The burden of care giving was therefore found to be associated with reduced quality of life. In this study the “quality of life” and “perception care giver burden” were assessed using the adapted 12 item version of the Zarit Burden Interview (AZI) and the WHO Quality of Life (BREF) instrument. The care givers coping and quality of psychological effectiveness in dealing with multi-tasking pattern of work were analyzed. 103 care givers of Alzheimer's patients in Visakhapatnam were randomly assigned into three groups. The first group of care givers were monitored to listen 20 minutes of Chakra Balancing Instrumental Music per day over a period of one month. The second group of care givers participated in a one hour 'support Alzheimer's' group discussion held a once a week for a period of one month. The third group comprised of the control group with no interventions given. Results indicated significantly lesser degree of burden and higher level of quality of life experience for the group of care givers monitored with music. The control group of subjects reported highest index of burden perceptions with lower quality of life evaluations. Findings of the study are recommending the use of music therapy as an alternative intervention technique to facilitate stress release, improve relaxation and balance, better psychosocial health and better coping techniques for care givers.

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.