Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 523-525
Gurpreet Kour Chhabra and Meeta Jha (School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

The aim of the present piece of research work is to examine empirically that whether or not gender and level of teaching work independently or in interaction with each other are capable of generating variance in attitudes towards comprehensive evaluation system in case of school teachers. Employing a (2)2 ex-post facto, non-experimental factorial design (fixed model) there are two levels of teaching, i.e. primary and higher secondary, and two levels of gender, i.e. male and female were manipulated in the study. Employing the stratified random sampling technique, finally 280 school teachers within the age range of 20 to 48 years were drawn randomly from different CBSE schools of Durg district of Chhattisgarh State to serve as subjects in the present study. All the two independent variables were found to be potential enough in generating variance on attitudes towards comprehensive evaluation system. Barring few exceptions, the interactions were not found significant. Theoretical interpretations have been given.

Pages: 529-533
Gunjan Sharma and Babita Tolani (Sadhana Centre for Management & Leadership Development, Pune, Maharashtra)

Subjective well being in corporate parlance is becoming very much important for the well being of the employees in an organization which has been prove to be something more than employee satisfaction. Subjective well being in an organization not only includes the cognitive aspect but also take physical fitness into the consideration. Being a secondary research we had taken two research papers which highlights different perspectives regarding the subjective well being of employees in an organization. It captures the dynamics of subjective well being in work settings on a daily basis, it suggest that optimal job performance is most likely when subjective well being is a combination of high activation and high pleasure. It has long being recognised that workplace practices like work attitude, wages and quality of work affect employees motivation and firm performance.

Pages: 536-538
Shivani (Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi)
Vinod K Sinha (Director Professor, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand)
Bharati Roy (Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi)

A headache is pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck; either both sides of head or be isolated to a particular area. Almost every mankind suffer from headaches at some point of their life and the impacts of headache can cause severe disturbance both for the sufferer and its care giver in the daily functioning. The aim of current study was to assess the impact of headache. Individuals with primary headache were divided into migraine (53) and non-migraine (53) and all the subjects were assessed on the headache impact test (HIT-6). No significant difference was found in the mean age and mean duration of illness between migraine and non-migraine. The scores on HIT were higher in migraine group (64.96 ± 4.544) than non-migraine (63.00 ± 4.739). Analyses reveals that headache does have severe impact on the physical functioning, work productivity and psychological well being. Individuals with migraine reported higher impact in comparison with non-migraine.

Pages: 541-547
Priyanka Shukla (Shree Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)
Madhurima Pradhan (Department of Psychology, Lucknow University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS has generated a global epidemic that far exceeds what was predicted even a decade ago. HIV among young people has become a major health problem in recent decades. Young people aged 1524 accounted for about 42 per cent of new adult HIV infections in 2010, and 5 million (4.4 million5.9 million) young men and women are currently living with HIV (UNAIDS, 2012). NFHS III data (2005-06) shows that now HIV/AIDS is not the problem of urban society only but it is spreading in rural areas as well. Recent studies of sexual, drug and alcohol outcome expectancies suggest that the risk beliefs and sensation seeking play a critical role to maintain the high risk behaviors. This paper attempts to assess HIV risk behavior, risk beliefs and sensation seeking of young adults and also to explore the relationship between risk beliefs and sensation seeking with HIV risk behaviours across gender and locale. Sample of the present study included 200 young adults (100 urban and 100 rural) comprising of 50 males and 50 females for each group between the age range of 19-26 years. To assess the participants HIV risk behaviors and risk beliefs, checklists were developed by the researchers on the basis of HIV/AIDS related literature and opinion of experts. To assess the Sensation seeking of the respondents, the Sensation seeking scale V originally developed by Zuckerman and his associates (1980) and standardized on Indian Population by Basu et al. (1993) was used to measure sensation seeking. The findings of the present study reveal that male respondents are higher in HIV risk behavior, risk beliefs and sensation seeking than female respondents and urban young adults are significantly higher in HIV risk behaviors and risk beliefs than rural young adults. In terms of Sensation Seeking, there is significant mean difference between Urban Males and Rural Male respondents except TAS subscale. And lastly, Urban Females are significantly higher in total SS and TAS subscale only than Rural Female respondents. Moreover, present paper also reveals that risk beliefs is positively and significantly correlated with HIV risk behaviours among all the four groups whereas overall Sensation seeking is positively correlated with HIV Risk Behaviour but significantly correlated only in Urban respondents. The present findings suggest that cognitive behavioral interventions may be an effective way to modify the risky beliefs and reducing sensation seeking among young adults so as motivate them to refrain from risky behaviours for slowing down the spread of HIV infection.

Pages: 553-557
Priya. M and Carolyne Dariti Dkhar (Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore)

The quality of a nation depends upon the quality of its citizens. The quality of citizens depends on the quality of their education, study habits and study attitudes of the learners. Quality of education is reflected through academic achievement which is a function of study habits and study attitude of the students. Thus to enhance the quality of education, it is necessary to improve the study habits and study attitudes of the students. To improve study habits and attitudes, and those factors are needed to be identified which affect these characteristics adversely (Ch.Hussain Abid, 2006). The present study has focused on to assess the level of study habits among school students, such as private and government schools of Coimbatore city with the age group of 13-18 years through random sampling with total number of 160 students. Tests of Study Habits and Attitudes (TSHA) by Mathur. The present study measures the study habits and attitudes in 9 areas which includes attitudes towards teachers, home environment, attitude towards education, study habits, mental conflict, concentration, home assignment, self confidence, views on examination. The samples were subjected to percentile scoring and chi square. The results found that majority of the boys are poor in their study habits compared to girls. Private school students are better in their study habits rather than government school students. Regarding class wise, it has been observed that 8th standard students are better in study habits and attitudes compared to 9th and 10 standard students and it indicates that 9th and 10th standard students need more direction towards education and counseling for improving their skills. Organized Counseling programs are necessary for the students to build up their good study habits .The students need more direction and counseling with regard to study habits so that the students may recognize their strengths and weakness in the education strategies and they may become more aware about better study habits.

Pages: 563-567
Namita Mishra (Department of Psychology, Sarala Mahavidyalaya, Rahama)
Pratap K. Rath (Department of Psychology, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar)

This paper reports a study designed to develop a scale tomeasure stress of college students. Because of concerns regarding the absence of a suitable measure to study the stress of college students in Indian context, a scale is developed in a regional language. The items of the scale were generated by involving and interviewing the students themselves. Items from different domains of life were selected and a prototype testing was made after which it was administered to a sample of 74 fresher in the college with an average age of16.27 years with a SD of 0.32 years. Score variability of the items was used to select the final items of the scale. The psychometric properties of the scale were determined. The test-retest reliability of the scale was quite high i.e. r= 0.74. The concurrent validity of the scale (when related with the perceived quality of life scale) was also high (r=0.67).

Pages: 575-579
Meenakshi Chouhan and Sunita Gupta (Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab)

The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of resilience on well-being of Kashmiri Pandit migrants. A sample of 88 (44 males and 44 females) Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the age group of 35 - 45 yrs, was derived from Jammu migrant camps through incidental sampling. The participants were assessed with Friedman well-being scale and 14-item resilience scale and they were classified as high or low scorers on resilience. A 22 ANOVA was used for the analysis of data. The results revealed that the migrants having higher scores on resilience had greater emotional stability, joviality, happiness, self-esteem, sociability and total well-being than the low scorers. Gender significantly affected the three components of well-being (joviality, happiness and sociability) but had no significant effect on emotional stability and self-esteem components as well as the total well-being scores. The interactive effects of gender and resilience for all components of well-being as well as the total well-being scores were statistically nonsignificant.

Pages: 585-589
Hansika Singhal and Renu Rastogi (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand)

The present study was an attempt to examine the construct of Meaning of life among married and unmarried corporate working employees. The sample consisted of 100 subjects, subdivided equally into two groups G1 (married employees) and G2 (unmarried employees) all working in the corporate sector. Content analysis has been done to understand the concept of meaning of life of the participants. Content analysis revealed that there were five broad categories of the sources of meaning of life for the participants namely family, recreational, social, sexual and spiritual. Further, frequency analysis revealed that 96% of the married and 42% of the unmarried employees derived their meaning of life from their Family domain and 48% of the married and 70% of the unmarried employees derived their meaning of life from the Recreational domain.

Pages: 594-597
Krishna Sharma (Department of Psychology, St. Josephs College for Women, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh)
P.S.N. Tiwari (Department of Psychology, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh)

The aim of the present study was to examine the anxiety and well-being among college students. The sample consists of 80 college students, in which 40 students belonging to arts background and 40 students were science background. Anxiety measure developed by investigator (2014) and well-being measure developed by Nagpal and Sel (1978) were used. The data was analyzed using mean, SD & t-test. The findings of the study suggested that arts and science students were significantly differ on anxiety and well-being. Results also showed that the dimension of well-being namely mental mastery over self and environment & density of social life were significantly differ among arts and science students. The implications of the findings have been discussed.The aim of the present study was to examine the anxiety and well-being among college students. The sample consists of 80 college students, in which 40 students belonging to arts background and 40 students were science background. Anxiety measure developed by investigator (2014) and well-being measure developed by Nagpal and Sel (1978) were used. The data was analyzed using mean, SD & t-test. The findings of the study suggested that arts and science students were significantly differ on anxiety and well-being. Results also showed that the dimension of well-being namely mental mastery over self and environment & density of social life were significantly differ among arts and science students. The implications of the findings have been discussed.

Pages: 602-605
Ajay Kumar Chaudhary (Department of Psychology, Government Meera Girls College, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

Adolescence presents many developmental tasks to negotiate. The establishment of intimacy and the capacity for friendship, the movement toward peers, toward independence, becoming autonomous from parents and forming a personal identity are but a few examples. For a physically disabled youth who cannot venture far from care-taking adults, adolescence can be a disaster. Unrealistic academic, social, or family expectations can create a strong sense of rejection and can lead to deep disappointment. When things go wrong at school or at home, teens often overreact. Many young people feel that life is not fair or that things “never go their way”. They feel “stressed out” and confused. The study of psychological state of such Physically Challenged and Non-Physically Challenged adolescents is the main aim of the present paper. The sample of thirty Physically Challenged and thirty Non-Physically Challenged adolescents were selected from Udaipur city of Rajasthan. The Eight State Questionnaire by Cattell adapted by Kapoor and Bhargava is used for determining psychological state of Physically Challenged and Non-physically Challenged. The results are interpreted with a vision to understand the psychological state of Physically Challenged and Non-Physically Challenged adolescents in terms of anxiety, stress, depression, regression, guilt, fatigue, extraversion and arousal state. It was found that Physically Challenged adolescents have more anxiety, stress, fatigue and arousal than Non-Physically Challenged adolescents. While, non- Physically Challenged adolescents have more depression, guilt and extraversion. The paper is a step to understand the psyche of Physically Challenged and Non-Physically Challenged adolescents and to suggest need based intervention program (based on counseling) to be used for all members of society. The paper also throws light for making Physically Challenged adolescents empowered so that they pave a path for progressive nation.

Pages: 610-612
Sadaf Anjum and Shahina Maqbool (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Post-traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change experienced as a result of a struggle with challenging life circumstances that represent significant challenges to the adaptive resources of the individual and/or an individual's way of understanding the world and one's their place in it. It is an experience of improvement that for some is deeply profound (Tedeschi & Calhoun,1996). In kashmir every individual is traumatized and still they perceived posttraumatic growth in all factors of life. The main aim of the present research is to assess the level of posttraumatic growth in Kashmiri male and female youths between the age group of 18 -21 years. Posttraumatic growth inventory developed by Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996) was administered on 50 males and 50 female students. Results revealed that significant difference was found on overall score of PTGI on male and female youth of Kashmir.

Pages: 616-618
Sujata Paul (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

The present study was aimed at investigating the home environment and adjustment among adolescents. The sample consisted of 100 boys and girls school students out of which 50 were boys and 50 were girls students. For this purpose of investigation “Adjustment Inventory” by H.S. Asthana and “ Home Enviornment Inventory “ by Mishra was used. The obtained data were analyzed through' t' test to know the mean difference between boys and girls school students. The data so collected was analyzed using statistical measures of Mean, Standard deviation and t- test. The findings of the present study revealed that there exist significant differences between the male and female adolescents on home environment and adjustment.

Pages: 622-624
Sanjeev Kumar (Department of Anaesthesiology, SGT Medical College, Budhera Gurgaon, Haryana)

There is an increasing number of patients undergoing surgery. However postoperative pain is considered to be an important factor delaying the discharge of the patients, with preoperative anxiety being considered as an important factor correlated with post operative pain. The present study was conducted to find out the correlation between preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain. 80 female subjects undergoing hysterectomy were divided into 3 groups based on preoperative anxiety. Pain perception was assessed using VAS at 5hrs and 8hrs after surgery. The present study established that higher preoperative anxiety was positively correlated with increased post operative pain. Thus prediction of post operative pain based on preoperative anxiety level require better tailored preoperative counseling and perioperative management improving patient outcome.