Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 1383-1385
Touseef Rizvi, Nasirah Hamid and Shams Un Nisa (Department of Psychology, University of Kashmir, Kashmir)

The present study was undertaken with the purpose to investigate the correlation of Depression and Religious Orientation (Intrinsic & Extrinsic) among Kashmir University students. The sample consisted of 200 students studying in various departments of the university. The findings of the study indicate that there exists a negative correlation between depression and intrinsic religious orientation. It was also found that students differ significantly on religious orientation (intrinsic & extrinsic) as far as their gender is concerned. Females were found to be more intrinsically oriented and males were found to be more extrinsically oriented. No significant differences were found in depression of participants as far as the gender is concerned and results also revealed that there is aninsignificantcorrelation between depression and extrinsic religious orientation.

Pages: 1391-1394
Archana Shukla (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, UP)

The present study attempts to cast a glance at the object relations of a 50 year old female leprosy patient (named M in the present study) from Jyoti Nagar Leprosy Rehabilitation Center, Mohanlal gang, Lucknow. In the present study, self object relationship has been operationally defined in terms of responses on Rorschach test, which has been analyzed in the perspective of Lerner (1991) Object Relations Theory. Results brought to fore a self image engulfed with helplessness, being consumed and eaten by the hostile world. M seems to reflect a schizoid character with sub features of depression and obsessive compulsive. Empty depression is evident. It seems to be cut and dry protocol.

Pages: 1398-1400
Muntazir Maqbool, Neharshi Shrivastava and Manju Pandey (Department of Psychology, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand)

The main purpose of present study was to find out the Mental Health of working women and Housewives. The sample consists of 100 women (50 working women and 50 housewives) randomly selected from Baramulla district of J&K state. The research tool used to assess Mental Health of working women and housewives was Mental Health Questionnaire (M.H.Q) developed and standardized by Dr. Kamlesh Sharma. Here 't' test was applied for statistical analysis of data to check the significance of difference in mental health of working women and housewives. Difference in mental health level of working women and housewives was significant at 0.05 level so null hypothesis was accepted and result shows that the housewives has better Mental Health in comparison to working women.

Pages: 1407-1413
Abdul Majeed Bhat, Vikas Sharma and S. P. K. Jena (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Intellectual disability is a developmental disorder with significant limitations in general intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour. Executive functions are adaptive, goal-directed behaviours that overthrow more automatic or established thoughts and responses (Lezak, 1995). Response inhibition is referred as the foundational component of executive functioning. Response inhibition is the ability to suppress irrelevant or interfering information or impulses. Research evidence indicates that children with intellectual disability have significant deficits in response inhibition. Recently attempts have been made to remediate deficits in response inhibition through cognitive training in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disabilities and other clinical populations. But least attention has been paid in children with intellectual disabilities. Sinu (name changed) 13year old girl was diagnosed with mild intellectual disability. On assessment of executive functions she exhibited significant deficits in sustained attention, visuo-spatial working memory, verbal response inhibition and spatial planning. In this study attempt has been made to remediate response inhibition deficits by using cognitive training. Fifteen sessions of cognitive training were given to Sinu after the gape of two days. The cognitive training activities comprised of verbal inhibition and motor inhibition task (Henry, Messer, & Nash, 2012), cued go/no-go task (Fillmore, Rush, & Hays, 2006), stop-signal task (Verbruggen, Logan, & Stevens, 2008). Sinu's responses to cognitive training and improvements in response inhibition are discussed here in this paper.

Pages: 1420-1427
Sraboni Chatterjee (Department of Psychology, Bijoy Krishna Girls College, Howrah, Kolkata)
Megha Bhattacharya (Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi)

Parenting is the bond that seals the generation together and the opportunity to pass along life experience to the next generation is what for many of us gives life its meaning. Bearing children and parenting are often the foundations around which couples have built a loving and committed relationship. The issue has been addressed within the periphery of selected psychosocial variables, where the findings established their interconnections and brought out distinctly different personality profiles of selected sub-samples namely fertile and infertile women. The study covered selected variables like well-being, anxiety, depression and narcissism. The sample consisted forty women divided equally twenty for fertile group and twenty for infertile group. Results revealed that infertile women tend to possess higher anxiety and depressive tone, whereas higher narcissism, well-being helps the fertile counterparts to bear homeostasis in their conjugal lives.

Pages: 1434-1438
Bhupendra Singh (Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak)
A.N. Verma (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi)
Amool R.Singh (Department of Clinical Psychology, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi)

Bipolar affective disorder tends to occur in episodes lasting 3-4 months, followed by complete clinical recovery. Future episode can be manic, depressive or mixed. Relapse is very common in bipolar affective disorder, level of social support reduces with the frequent relapses and expressed emotion took place in the negative form and become hurdle in readjustment of patients. 100 bipolar affective disorders with at least one hospitalization and their primary care givers were recruited from RINPAS OPD. People with more than one hospitalization get poor support from caregivers and they face high negative expressed emotion. Frequent relapse reduce the level of social support and increased the expressed emotion.

Pages: 1445-1448
Vikas Rawat, Rajesh S. K. and Raghuram Nagarathna (Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore)

The benefits of physical fitness are widely acknowledged and extend across many domains of wellness and health. Aim of this study was to investigate differences in physical fitness in healthy individuals, who regularly practice yoga and non-experienced participants. This study compared hundred and ten competitive yoga children with equal number, age, gender, weight-matched healthy yoga motivated children who were naive. Sample consists of 50 boys and 60 girls in each group. Anthropometric measurements, spinal flexibility, hand grip strength and ventilatory function were recorded. Independent-samples t-tests were performed to determine whether statistically significant between groups. Yoga practitioners scored significantly higher on all domains of Physical fitness except on Left handgrip strength when compared with non practitioners. This study has shown children who practice yoga has seem to have higher physical fitness than non practitioners. Hence we recommend that yoga be introduced at school level in order to improve physical fitness and ventilatory functions of students.

Pages: 1459-1462
Nishi Tripathi and Mahewash Hasan (Department of Psychology, Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHIATS), Allahabad, UP)

The present study in the area of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has attempted to identify core deficits associated with the cognitive functioning of the children having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as compared with their counterparts. The sample consisted of children having ADHD and children without ADHD with identical demographic information. Cognitive Assessment System was used to assess cognitive deficits in children with ADHD. The result showed that there was significant gender difference in prevalence of ADHD in children. It further depicts that ADHD is more prevalent among children belonging to age group of 12-14. Performance on cognitive assessment system revealed significant difference in performance of two scales, planning and attention whereas there was no significant difference on the performance of simultaneous processing and successive processing between the two groups. There was significant difference in the performance on full scale between children with and without ADHD. Therefore it could be concluded children with ADHD have cognitive dysfunction in planning and attention which could be strong predictors of ADHD in children.

Pages: 1468-1471
Chithra K and Jaywant Vijayakumar (Department of Psychology, Madras School of Social Work, Egmore, Chennai)
Vijayabanu, U. (Department of Counseling Psychology, Madras School of Social Work, Egmore, Chennai)

To find out the level of hope and positive attitude towards AIDS illness, among Chennai patients. Tamil Nadu has dropped from third to fifth among states with the largest number of people infected with the deadly virus. HIV positive members of the family can find themselves stigmatized and discriminated against within the home. It is found that women and non-heterosexual family members are more likely than children and men to be mistreated. In the workplace, people living with HIV may suffer stigma from their co-workers and employers, such as social isolation and ridicule, or experience discriminatory practices. People with AIDS tend become more depressed or anxious. A positive attitude towards the illness can help the patients accept or overcome the illness more effectively. Hence the present study aimed at finding out the level of hope and positive attitude towards the illness in patients. Exploratory study with ex-post facto research design was used in the present study. Random sampling strategy was used to draw the sample. The sample comprised of AIDS patients (n=30) among which 19 were male and 11 were female.Adult hope scale by Snyder (2002) was used to find out the level of hope among the patients and Silver lining questionnaire by Sodergren and Hyland, (2000)was used to assess positive attitudes towards AIDS illness. The results revealed that there is a lot of hope and better positive attitude towards illness among AIDS patients. The mean difference revealed that men and women differ in their level of hope and positive attitude. Illness makes an individual realize his/her true purpose in life and the direction in which they carry their life. From this study we can understand that AIDS patients have hope and positive attitude in life. People with illness should be given more care and counseling to help them focus in life positively.

Pages: 1477-1482
Mansi Khandelwal (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Noida, Uttar Pradesh )
Smita Gupta (Indra Gandhi National Open University, Delhi)

This research examines the intention of students to engage in physical exercise based on the theory of planned behaviour. The data was collected by the semi structured interview method to suit the requirements of an exploratory and descriptive study. The respondents were in the age group of 20 to 25 years from a reputed private university in NCR involving in total 14 students (equal number of men and women). Thematic analysis was used to identify relevant themes emerging from the interview data. Students themselves expressed that physical exercise is important as it helps them perform better. The finding of the study supports that out of the three factors of theory of planned behaviour, attitude and perceived behavioural control are important factors in one’s intention to engage in physical exercise. However, subjective norms were not deemed as relevant as the other two factors.

Pages: 1487-1491
Moumita Roy (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)

Research on domestic violence on women extensively documents the harm caused by such violence as a result it is a fact that battered women experience increased levels of stress , trauma ,depression and lower self esteem added with higher levels of psychological distress when compared to non battered women. The present study tries to highlight on the psychological, emotional, social and physical effects of domestic violence on Indian women and the impact of resilience and recovery from the trauma caused by it. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 women belonging to the city of Kolkata, subjected to domestic violence for a period of 3-15 years. The results highlighted on the condition of women living with domestic violence and how they directed themselves towards the use of resilience and recovery, to put an end to the trauma caused by it. Future implications of the study highlight on the intervention programs and generation of resources to incentivize these traumatized women to face the hardships and adversity in the Indian context.

Pages: 1496-1498
Alpana Mohan (Department of Psychology, VMLG (PG) College, Ghaziabad, U.P.)

Bilateral transfer, we mean practicing an activity with a particular part of the body usually facilitates performance of the same activity with another part of the body. The problem of inter-hemispheric transfer (Bilateral transfer) is more complex. The nature of such interhemispheric problem is not clear as yet. Clinical studies indicated that bilateral transfer of skill is significantly reduced in callosectonized patients and normal controls(Lehman & Lampe,1970). Present study is examined whether bilateral transfer deficits would persist in deaf children at a perceptual level. In order to examine interhemispheric transfer among congenital deaf and normal control group, bilateral transfer of motor skill was assessed with the mirror drawing task. Bilateral transfer is indicator of interhemispheric transfer. Findings of the study revealed that congenital deaf subjects were significantly more inaccurate & committed more errors in the mirror tracing task and had significantly less bilateral transfer of motor skill is found in comparison to control subjects. The present findings allow us to accept a hypothesis of lowered bilateral organization' rather than failure to establish normal pattern of dominance in people with congenital deaf.

Pages: 1502-1504
Samriti Mona (Chandigarh College of Education Landran, Punjab)
Sushma Saini (Amity Insitute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida)

The future of any country depends on the overall development of its students. Moral development is one such aspect of this development. There are many stages of human development. From all these stages childhood stage is most important, as at this stage the mind of child is fresh and raw to perceive any kind of knowledge. Holistic development of an individual is incomplete if moral values are neglected. Moral values play an important role in shaping personality of child. Moral values are things held to be right or wrong or desirable or undesirable. While morality is something described as innate in human, the scientific view is that a capacity for morality is genetically determined in us, but the sets of moral values is acquired, through example, teaching and imprinting from parents and society. Realizing the importance of moral values among elementary school students a descriptive study was conducted using moral value scale for school children by Alpana Sen. Gupta and Arun Kumar. The result was statistically analyzed using mean, SD and t-ratio. The moral value dimensions lying, dishonesty, stealing and cheating was compared and assessed for male and female students.