Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 504-507
Nikhat Kaura and Roopali Sharma (AIPS, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh)

Achievement motivation is relatively a new concept in the world of motivation. So it can be said that achievement is the result of what an individual has learned from some educational and family experiences. As for every individual there is a driving force. In fact, it is not just a single factor, but a combination of factors that lead people to achieve their goals. This drive is motivation and also the underlying reason for human behavior. Thus motivation refers to the driving and pulling forces which result in persistent behavior directed toward particular goal. Globally, there has been an increasing concern that how to ensure that students learn optimally at school and achieve academic excellence in their academic pursuit. Gender plays a significant role in shaping achievement motivation and is being studied in psychological andeducational research.The present research aims to study the effect of gender on achievement motivation. The sample of the study was 60 adolescents i.e. 30 girls and 30 boys. The age group was 15 to 17 years old school going adolescent. It was hypothesized that there would be a no significant difference between gender and the level of achievement motivation and girls will have high achievement motivation in comparison to boys. The tools used for the research was Achievement Motivation Scale (n-Ach). The study reported no significant difference between gender and achievement motivation and it showed that girls have high levels of achievement motivation as compared to boys.

Pages: 511-513
Nehashree Srivastava and Bareen Askari (Department of Psychology, National P.G College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of the study is to compare servicemen and businessmen on emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction have become a very much talked about topics of psychological research in recent years, especially how they affect the today's workforce. The servicemen and businessmen are the most important part of the economy as they contribute to the sustainment and upliftment of the society. However, they are essentially human beings, anything that impacts the effectiveness of their mind also has an impact on the services they perform and run. With the upcoming changes in the economic conditions and emerging new trends of employee attitudes and their ways of working, researchers focus their attention on investigating the level of emotional intelligence and pattern of life satisfaction of these servicemen and businessmen. The sample consisting of 20 servicemen and 20 businessmen (mean age=49.5) belonging to a middle class family were selected from Lucknow city. Emotional intelligence scale (eis-hpd) developed by Hyde et al. (1971) and Life Satisfaction scale (LSS-AS) developed by Alam et al. (1971) were used. Results showed no significant difference between servicemen and businessmen on emotional intelligence and life satisfaction.

Pages: 517-519
Mohammad Anas, Asiya Aijaz and Fauzia Nazam (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

The main objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being among youths. The gratitude scale and psychological well-being scale were administered on 152 students from post-graduate classes. The positive correlation coefficient was found between gratitude and psychological well-being (r= 0.438, p .01) among youths. Significant positive correlation coefficients were also found between gratitude and psychological well-being in male youths (r = .614, p <.01) and in female youths (r = .433, p <.01).

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.