Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 488-492
Pankaj Singh, Nilofer Mujawar, Rupali Moharkar and Harshdeep Kaur (NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Digdoh Hills, Nagpur, Maharashtra)

The Present study to examine the effect of video, mobile games on children's behavior. 160, school going children's, age range from 7 to 10 were recruited based on random sampling. They were administered the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Behavioural Rating Scale, in the sample group. The data were analyzed with the help of compared “t” test, an analysis of variance showed a Mean of boy's Child and Adolescent Inpatient Behavioural Rating Scale 102.97 and girls Child and Adolescent Inpatient Behavioural Rating Scale Mean 72.5, and t-value is 13.11, significant at 0.05 levels. In present study show that most of the bad effects of video games are blamed on the violence and other behaviour issues. Children who play more video, and mobile games are more likely to have increased Anxiety , communication problem , psychomotor activity, conduct disorder/ disruptive behaviour, social skills, attention and hyperactive behaviour , aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and decreased prosocial helping.

Pages: 500-504
Subhash Chandra Chouhan, Paramjeet Singh and Sunil Kumar (Department of Psychiatry, S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The presence, upbringing and looking after of a mentally retarded child in the family, can become a threat to the mental health of its parents and is the main predisposing factor of stress for the parents. Present hospital based cross sectional analytical type of observational study was carried out at outpatient department (OPD) of Psychiatric Centre, S.M.S. Medical College Jaipur with the specific aims to assess and compare daily parenting stress and anxiety among parents of children with intellectual disability. Total 90 randomly selected subjects {both parents of mentally retarded (MR) children} were evaluated separately for daily parenting stress and anxiety using the Family Interview for Stress and Coping (FISC-MR) and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A). According to Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of children, three groups were created: Group A (30 parents of moderate to profound MR children), group B (30 parents of mild to borderline MR children) and control group C (30 parents of children normal intelligence).IQ of the children was assessed by trained clinical psychologist and diagnosis was made as per ICD-10 criteria. Controls were taken from healthy volunteer and screened by two psychiatrists. A self designed, pre-tested & semi-structured detailed Performa was used for socio-demographical and clinical profile. The data was analyzed using by using SPSS. Parents in group A had significantly higher level of daily parenting stress and anxiety than groups B and C, group B parents had higher level of anxiety and daily parenting stress than group C. Mothers experienced greater anxiety and daily parenting stress compared to fathers. A positive correlation was found between daily parenting stress and anxiety.

Pages: 510-513
Shyama C. Ogre and Moyna Chakravarty (S.O.S in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)
Priyamvada Shrivastava, and Gaukaran Janghel (S.O.S in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

Out of total sample of the study 72.7 % adolescents were homozygous and 76.7 % were heterozygous. Male and females of Age group 14-16 years were maximum number. Percentage of heterozygous males complaining somatic problems is higher, whereas percentage of homozygous females complaining somatic problems is high. There is significant positive relationship between Maladaptive coping style and somatic problems. Somatic problems emerge as significant predictor in variation of criterion variable somatic problems. The t values explain significant difference in somatic complaints among sickle cell adolescents with respect to gender and zygosity.

Pages: 518-521
Komal Rai and Gurpreet Gill (Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Panjab)

Human beings always need someone, with whom they can talk and share their problems and feelings. And when there is a lack of communication between family and friends, the individual start feeling lonely. But now through internet based networking sites facility, people are more able to connect to one another than ever before in the history .But still despite of having the facilities to connect with others easily,18-to 35-year-olds are more likely to feel lonely often or feel depressed because of loneliness than people aged over 50. Late teens to early 30s have reported feeling loner that those in old age. Despite of having the positive side of social networking sites, there is a danger of replacing real-life relationships with superficial, online communication. It is a great concern because loneliness leads to depression and other psychological problems. Now in India we have more cases of depression, suicide ideation, negative thoughts etc in youths as compared to previous times. This research aim was to find out relation between social networking site usage and loneliness and also the role of gender in social networking sites usage and in loneliness. To assess loneliness, UCLA Loneliness Scale was used and for social networking sites usage, Facebook intensity scale was applied, because youngsters are using more facebook than other social sites. Sample was comprised of total 160 undergraduate's students (80 males and 80 females with age range of 18 to 25) from Lovely Professional University. Taking in consideration our objectives and hypotheses, data collection was analyzed by Independent sample t-test and Pearson's product moment correlation. The result revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between loneliness and social networking sites. The correlation value between loneliness and social networking sites was 0.247**. Through t-test we found that in loneliness (t (160) = 2.247*, p < 0.05) males were more lonely (X = 45.21) than the female (X = 41.93). In social networking sites (t (160) = 5.009**, p < 0.01), males (X = 26.86) were using more social networking site i.e. Facebook than the females (X = 21.86).

Pages: 527-530
Swati Gupta (Clinical Psychology, AIPS, Amity Univesrity, Noida, U.P.)
Roopali Sharma (AIPS, Amity University, Noida, U.P.)

Nowadays Internet has become a part of life in all age groups but it has prominently playing a role in the life of youngsters and affecting their Quality of Life .Internet has both the positive as well as negative effects on the life style of young adults and to the level they are engaging in internet activities can influence their life style .The present study explores the relationship between the impact of internet usage (excessive and average) on quality of life among young adults. A sample of 60 young adults has been selected out of 100 and was selected from Delhi/NCR region, to identify the relationship. A screening test, the Internet Addiction Test (1998), developed by Dr. Kimberly Young to assess the level of internet usage and Quality of Life Scale BREF (2004) developed by World Health Organization. There was no correlation found between the average level of internet usage and quality of life and people who excessively use internet has no effect on their quality of life. But difference was found between the quality of life of average and excessive internet users. The quality of life of average internet users is comparatively better than excessive internet users.

Pages: 535-539
Priyanka Behrani and Priyanka Shah (Department of Psychology, The M.S. University of Baroda, Gujrat)

In the present study, researcher aims to study the difference between coping pattern of fathers and mothers of children with Intellectual disability, Autism and Down syndrome. The sample comprised of 15 fathers and 15 mothers of children with disability. The data was collected using three tools, the demographic details, COPE and Parental Questionnaire. Data available through Parental Questionnaire was analysed through qualitative analysis; specifically content analyses, whereas data analysis of COPE questionnaire was analysed through SPSS for t test. Differences were found on coping pattern of fathers and mothers of children with disability where Positive reinterpretation and growth coping pattern were used more frequently by fathers and behavioural disengagement coping pattern were used more frequently by mothers of children with disability. Based on content analyses of parental questionnaire it was found that mothers were turning more towards to religious coping whereas fathers are adopting more accepting coping pattern.

Pages: 543-545
Dhiksha. J and Suresh A. (Department of Psychology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Montessori Method of education focuses on students overall development. Montessori Method of education is designed not only to focus on academic skills of the students but also it gives importance for the development of the student's social and behavioral skills. Hence the present study aimed to assess the self-esteem and academic anxiety of students with Montessori and traditional method of education. It was hypothesized that the students of Montessori Method of education have higher self-esteem and lower academic anxiety compared to traditional method of education. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 124 students were selected from the schools which offer education with Montessori (N=60) and traditional method (N=64). Tools used for the study were the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Academic Anxiety Scale for Children developed by Singh and Sen Gupta. The collected data were subjected to `t` analysis and the major findings of the study revealed that the students of Montessori Method of education has significantly higher self-esteem and significantly lower academic anxiety compared to traditional school students.

Pages: 550-552
Aya Abd Allah Gouda Mohammed (Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, Helwan University, Egypt)

Cognition plays a critical role in the occurrence of neurotic disorders and affects individual self-esteem (Salama,1989). Individuals' beliefs about themselves, other people and the world are formed during childhood. One of the deepest beliefs are core beliefs which are basic, fixed and mostly generalized concepts viewed by the individual as absolute fact. Moreover, core beliefs affect the intermediate layer consisting of hypothesis, attitudes and rules thus affecting individuals' view of the situation which in turn affects their way of thinking, feelings and behaviors (Beck & Beck, 2007). Accordingly, these cognitive levels are the cognitive structure by which individuals interpret the coming information and perceive and appraise situations. Therefore, they affect individuals' self-esteem as self esteem includes both positive and negative attitudes toward the self as an assessment for the self based on the individuals' attitudes and beliefs. Accordingly, if the individuals have negative cognitive structure (beliefs and attitudes), they will have low self-esteem and become more vulnerable to neurotic disorders such as anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder characterized with cognitive structures representing negative subjects towards the self. (Basha & Abd El-Satar, 2015) This research aims to clarify the theoretical relationship between negative cognitive schemata, self-esteem and some neurotic disorders ( e.g., anxiety).

Pages: 558-560
Taha Soliman and Abdelgied Soliman (Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Helwan University, Egypt)

Religious ideas and ritual life are considered important pursuits for everyone. We cannot imagine how humans can express emotions without being convinced with their real world. This world makes them have feelings of security, satisfaction, subjective well-being and other positive feelings resulting in happiness. Moreover, humans cannot stand their life without having in a doctrine or performing dogmatic activities. The sacred is a structure in human consciousness not a stage the history of this consciousness. This is because food and sex are life related secrets. We can say that to live as a human being means to be religious. (Eilade, 1986-1987, translated) The current research aims to show the effect of the relationship between religious ideas and dogmatic (doctrine) activities performance on individuals' psychological wellbeing as religious individuals are found to be happier than non religious (Basha & Abd El-Satar, 2015) participating in dogmatic or religious activities help individuals to have a meaning for life, a hope in the future, self esteem and others' acceptance. Thus individuals are able to feel happy and satisfied with life, so they become able to confront psychological stressors.

Pages: 564-570
Sivadasan Lisha and Narayanan Annalakshmi (Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu)

Physical disability is a potential risk factor for adaptation since it is a stressful condition that might thwart one's efforts for effectively functioning in life and work since physically disabled are exposed to hostility and neglect by the society. This cross-sectional study examined the predictors of life satisfaction among adults with locomotor disability using a sample of 150 adult males with locomotor disability in the age group 30 to 40 years. The findings reveal that everyday discrimination strongly negatively predicted life satisfaction among adults with physical disability. Resilience, cognitive reappraisal and perceived social support from family, but not friends positively predicted life satisfaction. The findings underscore the role of interesting agencies and pathways of resilience among adults with locomotor disability. Implications for designing psychosocial intervention programs to nurture resilience in adults with locomotor disability are discussed.

Pages: 579-584
Purnima Awasthi, Reeta Chauhan and Saroj Verma (Department of Psychology, F.S.S., B.H.U., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

The study examined the role of age and gender on life satisfaction of physical disabled and normal healthy students. Sample comprised orthopedically disabled (n=73) and normal healthy students (n=73). Multidimensional Student Life-Satisfaction Scale was administered to assess their perception regarding the various domains of life-satisfaction such as family, friends, school, living environment, and self. The results indicated that disabled students scored higher only on the measure of school life-satisfaction than normal healthy students. Female students scored significantly higher on the domains of friends, school, and global life-satisfaction as compared to their male counterparts. Findings of age and gender groups revealed that females belonging to late adolescence age group scored higher on the domain of school and global life satisfaction than the males representing the same group. The implications of the findings for disabled students are discussed.

Pages: 594-599
Niti Shukla and Nanki Monga (Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Panjab)

Adolescents have curiosity towards new behaviour and they want to experience without thinking much about consequences. During the phase of adolescence peer learning is on the peak and human behaviour is highly affected by his/her surroundings. All these aspects must have impact on adolescents' achievement of various goals in their lives. The current study attempted to investigate the risk taking behaviour of adolescents and their academic achievements during their schools. A sample of 40 adolescents including boys (20) and girls (20) in the age range of 15-17 years studying in schools at South Delhi was investigated for its academic achievement motivation by classifying them on the nature of risk taking behaviour, i.e. moderate and high risk taking behaviour. Majority of the participants (90%) were noticed with moderate risk taking tendencies. All the girl adolescents (100%) were there with moderate risk taking behaviour whereas boys (20%) were also found with high risk taking tendencies other than moderate (80%) category of risk taking behaviour. The risk taking behaviour of adolescents was significantly correlated with their academic achievements (r= -0.41). The findings suggest investigating the risk taking behaviour at school level and counselling the adolescent students in context of their immediate and long-term goals.

Pages: 604-606
Jeeshma R. and Nandha Kumara Pujam (Department of Clinical Psychology, SRM Medical College & Hospital & Research Centre, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)

Suicidal ideation and attempt are common in major depressive disorder and other psychiatric diagnosis. It is indubitable that psychiatric disorders are linked to suicide, but in what manner remains to be explained. A patient with major depression has increase risk for suicide compared with an individual without depression. Since most patients with depression do not show suicidal behavior, it has been argued that other factors than those eliciting depressive mood must operate when a person becomes suicidal. In this study, we included 30 suicide attempters with depression and 30 suicidal ideators with depression but without prior history of suicidal attempt and they were assessed using Temperament and Character Inventory. This was a hospital based cross sectional study. The analysis included descriptive statistics and Mann Whitney U test. Results show that higher Novelty Seeking, Reward Dependence and Self-Transcendence in Suicide Attempters than the Suicide Ideators. However, Suicidal Ideators were found to have higher Harm Avoidance and Self-Directedness.