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.