Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 108-111
Akanksha Tripathi (Department of Psychology, GCG, Sector-11,Chandigarh)

lPlanning and organi1zing are among various executive features that many organizations look for. Moreover, Emotional Intelligence which is a set of characteristics is also seen to be fundamentally important, as it is unrealistic to set aside our emotion sand feelings in workplace.

Pages: 131-133
Rajesh Kmar Lohchab (Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

It provides for the generation of income, wealth and employment, and help sin the development of remote area. The economy of the Himalayas as a whole is poor with low per capita income. Development of tourism on one hand leads to socio-economic upliftment of local population and on other hand it leads to adverse environment and social problems.

Pages: 904-908
Shradha Mathur (Postdoctoral Research Associate (on a joint research project), Department of Social Work (UGC Centre of Advanced Study), Faculty of Social Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India and School of Public Health, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus), Minneapolis, MN, USA)

This paper investigates the dynamics of relationship between the constructs of social network and Snyder’s concept of hope in relation with life satisfaction in the Indian elderly. Based on a sample of 84 elderly, categorized on the basis of their retirement status into retired (N=40) and post retired (N=44), empirical findings are discussed. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that both social network size and hope combined significantly predict life satisfaction in greater degree compared to the network size alone, although the individual contribution of network size exceeds the predictive power of hope. The study also indicates significantly positive and greater association of life satisfaction with network size compared to perceived satisfaction obtained from social support in the post retired years. The limitations and suggestions for future research are given along with the implications for the Indian elderly.

Pages: 913-917
Harprit Kaur and Kavneet Kaur (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India)

Behavior is governed by some kind of motivation or regulation which is broadly categorized as intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Every individual regardless of gender has some strength and some difficulties in regulating behavior. The present piece of research has been conducted to study gender differences in adolescents in relation to their perceived strengths and difficulties, as well as their capacity for academic self-regulation. For this, a sample of 54 boys and 46 girls was taken. They all belonged to the age group of 11-13 and were studying in an urban English medium public school. They were administered the strengths and difficulties questionnaire by Goodman (2002) and the academic self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ-A) by Ryan and Connell (1989). The strength and difficulty questionnaire has four scales namely the emotional symptoms scale, conduct problems scale, hyperactivity scale and peer problems scale that comprise the total difficulty score, and the prosocial scale that signifies the strength score. The SRQ-A has four sub-scales that represent four different regulatory styles namely external regulation, introjected regulation, identified regulation, and intrinsic motivation. The data were collected and were further rendered to statistical analysis. T-test was applied to find out the differences between the two groups on various dimensions.

Pages: 931-935
Shilpi Nanglu (Defence Institute of Psychological Research Defence R&D Organization, Timarpur, New Delhi, India)

The study explored the link between Indian adolescents’ television viewing and parent adolescent conflict. The sample consisted of male and female children (N=400) aged 12-15 years. It was hypothesized that heavy viewers of TV (watching >3 h of television) would be significantly higher on intensity and frequency of conflicts with their parents. The respondents were divided in to heavy (>3 h/day) and light viewers (<3 h/day) on the basis of the reported daily television viewing time in the questionnaire by Nanglu and Banth (2006) and Prinz et al. checklist was used to measure the intensity and frequency of conflict. Data was analyzed by t-ratio and regression analysis. Heavy viewers reported a significantly higher intensity and greater frequency of conflict with their parents as compared to the light viewers. The intensity and frequency of parents-adolescents’ conflict reported a significant positive correlation with viewing of informative, entertainment, and horror/violent programs. This is indicative of the fact that the extent of television viewing and content of television viewing influences the parent adolescents’ relationship quality.

Pages: 942-947
Sadananda Reddy and Prasad Reddy (Department of Social Work, Don Bosco Academy, Degree and P.G College Nalgonda, Telangana, India)
Dharma Reddy (Department of Psychiatric Social Work National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India)

College students are prone to stress due to the transitional nature of college life and academic pressure. They must adjust to being away from home for the first time, maintain a high level of academic achievement, and adjust to a new social environment. Coping deals with the way people manage those situations or conditions that are perceived as stressful. In the literature of coping, coping responses have been conceived of as structural or personality characteristics based on psychoanalytic ego-psychology. The study aimed to compare the main sources of stress and coping styles between graduation and post-graduation students. The study was taken in the Don Bosco Academy, Degree and P.G College, Nalgonda. Students enrolled for graduation and post-graduation courses (n=120) were recruited for the study. The researcher administered socio-demographic interview schedule, student stress survey to the students (40 items) and the brief cope inventory (28 items). Ethical issues have been followed while conducting the study. It was found that overall daily hassles were reported more often than major life events, with intrapersonal sources of stress being the most frequently reported source. The top five sources of stress were; change in sleeping habits, vacations/breaks, change in eating habits, increased work load, and new responsibilities. The results have generally shown that problem-focused coping, e.g., planning, is associated with positive academic and personal adjustment, and that emotion-focused coping, e.g., aggressive coping, is associated with emotional and behavioral problems. The findings from this study may be further used to examine which sources of stress and poor coping styles cause the highest levels of stress among college students, and it may be helpful in creating effective stress management programs for the student population.

Pages: 951-954
Arpita Acharya (Department of Psychology, MBB College (A College Affiliated by Tripura University), Agartala, Tripura, India)
Krishna Biswas (Tripura Council For Child Welfare, Agartala, Tripura India)

This study is an attempt to measure the amount of depression, hopelessness, and self-esteem of a group of destitute women of Tripura who lives in various destitute homes of this state. Three leading homes who work for the welfare of the destitute women are selected and data were collected from 50 women by using three psychological scales, viz. The Beck hopelessness scale, the Beck depression inventory and Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Data were also collected from 50 non-destitute women of the same age and socioeconomic status. Results showed that destitute women have a higher level of depression and hopelessness, but a lower level of self-esteem than non- destitute women. Significant positive correlation between depression and hopelessness was found, but self-esteem is negatively correlated with both depression and hopelessness.

Pages: 961-964
J. Jeffrin Margreat and N.S. Rohini (Department of Psychology, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)

The study on “management of hopelessness and coping among breast cancer patients” was conducted in Coimbatore Cancer Foundation in Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore by purposive sampling method. 75 breast cancer patients served as the sample. They were in the age range of 35-70 years under medication. The patients with high scores in Hopelessness and low in brief coping were selected for the study. The tools used for assessment were case study schedule, Beck hopelessness scale (Beck, 1978), and brief coping scale (Carver, 1997). The psychological intervention, “rational emotive behavior therapy” (REBT) was administered to the patients. After 15 days, the re-assessment was given using the same questionnaires. The results indicated a significant reduction in the mean hopelessness with increase in coping strategies. This clearly indicates the effect of REBT in coping among breast cancer patients.

Pages: 969-972
Urooj-un-nisa and Humera Shafi (Department of Psycology, University of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between spiritual well-being (SWB) and depression among adults among Type 2 diabetes. The Universe of the Study was based on 430 Type 2 diabetic adults from Endocare: Advanced centre for diabetes and endocrine care. Purposive sampling was carried out to collect the data. SWB scale developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) was used to investigate SWB among Type 2 diabetic adults and Beck’s Depression Inventory-II by Beck et al. (1996) was used to investigate depression among these diabetic adults. The results showed significant negative correlation between SWB and depression among Type 2 diabetic adults. Results also revealed that Type 2 diabetic adults differ significantly on SWB with respect to their gender but regarding rural/urban dichotomy and their educational status, Type 2 diabetic adults didn’t differ significantly. Further results also showed significant differences on depression among Type 2 diabetic adults as far as their gender and educational status is concerned but with respect to rural/urban dichotomy they didn’t differ significantly.

Pages: 976-978
Namita Shah (Department of Psychology, Government of Arts & Commerce College, Jafrabad, Amreli, Gujarat, India)

There are many internal and external factors that play very important role in psychological well-being (PWB). And it is also the fact that the PWB, it depends on every human nature. In the present time, every students suffer in academic stress, social anxiety, and sometimes depression also. And this all surrounding factors are affected on person’s well-being either mental or physical. The main aim of the present research is to find out the PWB among girls and boys student. In this study, PWB questionnaire was used which was constructed and standardized by Bhogle (1995). And t-test was applied to check the difference between the two groups. The result obtained through the study showed (t=4.63) significant difference among boys and girls.