Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 586-587
S. Robinson (Department of Psychology, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Govt.College of Education, Karaikal, U.T of Puducherry)
In this study the investigator attempts to estimate the different components of emotional intelligence of school teachers in Karaikal region of U.T of Puducherry. A sample of 43 female teachers who are working in different schools of that region. The background variables such as age, teaching experience and various dimensions of emotional intelligence have been statistically analysed. The study reveals that age, teaching experience and components of emotional intelligence are not statistically significant. Inter-correlation of components of emotional intelligence showed significant relationship with the dimensions of self-awareness, Empathy, self-motivation, emotional stability, managing relations, integrity, self-development, value orientation, commitment and altruistic behaviour. Regarding the relationship among the co-domain commitment is least influenced and emotional stability is more influenced among the school teachers irrespective of their age and years of experience.

Pages: 592-596
Sumith K. Sridharan and Baby Shari (Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala)

All people have 'behaviours' in order to function in this world aptly. Sometimes it is behaviour that moves us towards our goals and sometimes the behaviour itself may become a problem and interferes with the proper functioning of an individual. The children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder are quite different from normal children both in behavioural as well as learning aspects. As AD/HD children are very energetic and the symptoms of AD/HD are most often present from the age of three, and sometimes last into adult life, the burden of carrying and handling them are more readily felt by the mothers. Mothers of AD/HD children are challenged and frustrated from time to time by the noncompliance and misbehavior of their children which makes them react negatively to such behaviours of their children. They were found to have more stress, less parenting satisfaction, lower self-confidence, less warmth and involvement with their children, used corporal punishment and higher levels of authoritarian parenting styles. These were seen to be more significant than the mothers of non problematic children. It was found that mothers' behaviour and disciplinary practices itself made the child more prone to express symptoms like non-responsiveness, over-reaction, behaviour problem etc. The paper explores multi-dimensional parenting behaviour and parenting stress of mothers of AD/HD children and tries to see whether there is significant difference in parenting stress amongst the mothers of AD/HD children who adopt non-deviant, fully deviant and partially deviant mothering. Results show that Mothers of AD/HD children adopt positive as well as negative dimensions of parenting behavior, to a great extent and belong to a partially deviant parenting. Mothers of AD/HD children adopt different styles of parenting behavior and it differs significantly in the parenting stress and its sub-factors, which they experience.

Pages: 609-614
P. Don Bosco and V.D. Swaminathan (Department of Psychology, University of Madras, Chennai)

“Mathematics anxiety” was first detected in the late 1950's. Dreger and Aiken (1957) noticed undergraduate students reacting emotionally to arithmetic and mathematics. They introduced for the first time a new term 'Mathematics Anxiety' to describe students' attitudinal difficulties with mathematics. It was recognized as a problem as early as 1970, since then it has become a global problem among students. Mathematics anxiety has become most researched topic among psychologists and educationists for almost 40 years. The long school administrative experience of the researcher and the class 10 Nagaland Board of School Education results (2007-2011) are self explanatory to show that mathematics anxiety among school students are on the rise. A study on “Predictors of Mathematics Anxiety among Naga Adolescent Students in Kohima” Nagaland (2011) was a felt need to find out whether Numerical Ability, Study Skills and General Anxiety be the predictors of mathematics anxiety among Naga adolescent students in Kohima. The study was also intended to find out whether there would be gender difference on Numerical Ability, Study Skills, General Anxiety and Mathematics Anxiety. Random Sampling method was used to choose the institutions and also sections of class 9 and class 10 to avoid bias and disparity. The sample selected for the present study included 584 students (291 girls and 293 boys of classes 9 and 10) from six private unaided co-educational Higher Secondary Schools in Kohima Nagaland. Multiple Regressions, Path Analysis, 2X2 factorial ANOVA was used for the analysis of the data. Numerical ability and Study skills had significant inverse relationship with cognitive dimension of mathematical anxiety. This proved the fact that the greater the numerical ability and study skills the lesser the cognitive component of mathematics anxiety. Both Numerical ability and Study skills contributed inversely to the behavioural aspect of mathematics anxiety. Numerical ability and Study skills showed significant negative correlation with somatic manifestations of anxiety. Numerical ability as well as study skills showed significant inverse relationship with social aspect of mathematics anxiety. All the predictors such as Numerical Ability, Study Skills, and General Anxiety have significantly contributed to mathematics anxiety. Though there was no significant gender difference with regard to Numerical Ability but boys differed significantly from girls on mathematics anxiety. The common belief that boys are superior to girls on numerical ability was not accepted and there was no significant gender difference on numerical ability. Mathematics anxiety is real, and is present in all age levels regardless of their mathematical ability (Betz, 1978). It is a 'learned' emotional response to one or more of the following: participating in a mathematics class, listening to lecture, working through a mathematics problem, and discussing mathematics therefore this learned behaviour could be 'unlearned'. Naga Adolescent students in Kohima found to be having moderate mathematics anxiety, added to that general anxiety and mathematics anxiety were more among girls than boys.

Pages: 620-623
Fatima Bi and Shamim A. Ansari (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)

The objective of the present investigation was to study organizational identification and job-tenure as a function of organizational commitment. Data were collected from a sample of 287 teachers teaching in Aligarh Muslim University. For collecting data on 'organizational commitment' scale developed by Shah and Ansari (2000) were used having three dimensions namely, 'affective', 'continuance' and 'normative' commitment and for 'organizational identification' scale developed by researchers (Bi & Ansari, 2011) was used, having seven facets viz., 'organizational prestige', 'organizational belongingness', 'autonomy in organization', 'employee-centered management', 'promotional opportunities', 'supervisory behaviour' and 'transparency'. Job-tenure was assessed the number of years spent in his/her professional career. Results of regression analysis revealed that 'organizational identification' is significantly and positively predicting three criterion variables viz., 'organizational commitment', 'continuance commitment', and 'normative commitment' while 'organizational belongingness' emerged as significant and positive predictor of 'organizational commitment' and 'normative commitment'. 'Organizational prestige' only predict positively to 'affective commitment' while 'transparency' predict negatively to 'normative commitment'. It is to mention that job-tenure has not been found instrumental in predicting 'organizational commitment' and its various dimensions. The findings are discussed in the light of supporting studies and their conclusions are given.

Pages: 627-629
Zarine Immanuel (Mother Teresas Womens University, Tamilnadu)
Kalyani Kenneth (Rajiv Gandhi National Institute for Youth Development, Tamilnadu)

This study is aiming to bring about changes in the attitude of today's adolescents and to get their opinion on sensitive topics like dating and pre-marital counselling which is a taboo and unheard of in certain places in India. The survey was conducted among 200 college boys and girls from the college in Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu. Seventy-five and seventy- three percentage of boys and girls respectively opined against taking dowry for various reasons while the remaining were in favour of it. About eighty nine percent of boys and seventy percent of girls expressed the need of having premarital counselling for making their prospective marriage successful. Around seventy-five percent of boys and fifty- five percent of girls were ready to date their prospective spouses before marriage to get to know them well. It can be seen in the study that the number of adolescent boys who are against taking dowry is seventy-five percent and for the adolescent girls it is seventy three percent. However the fact that the dowry system is still widely practical contradicts these views. There was a positive feedback for the need of pre-marital counselling.

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Pages: 6-11
Arab Naz (Department of Sociology University of Malakand, Pakistan)
Qaisar Khan (Department of English University of Malakand, Pakistan)
Waseem Khan (Department of Sociology University of Malakand, Pakistan)

The Development of a child's personality owes much to the value transmitted to him/her from parents. This paper deals with such transmission in a traditional joint family system in Pukhtoon society of the N-W.F.P. in order to conduct the study, the researcher purposively selected 100 respondents including both male and female parents aged 25 and above.

Pages: 36-41
Sunil Saini and Neelam Goyal (Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana) Narender Kumar (Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab)

The study examined the psychological aggression in marital relationship and its association with physical aggression, negotiation skills, positive feelings, physical health in a sample of 196 heterosexual couples. The results indicated that psychological aggression was associated with physical aggression, negotiated skills, and positive physical and emotional feelings.