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Pages: 811-818 With an objective to understand how the print media in Assam has been covering issues revolving around HIV/AIDS to sensitize the people in general and students in particular, of the impending peril associated with a lack of awareness with regard HIV/AID, a newspaper content analysis study was undertaken by the researcher. Five prominent daily newspapers available in the region were selected for the study. The Times of India, the largest English daily of the country, three newspapers from the regional English press, viz., The Assam Tribune, The Telegraph, and The Sentinel, and one from the vernacular language press-The Asomiya Pratidin were selected for the purpose of the present study. This paper is a summary of the results of the study of the one-year time frame of news stories of the above newspapers. Coverage pattern from 1st January2005 to 31st December 2005 in Assam regarding the dimensions of HIV/AIDS issues revealed what amount of importance was accorded by the print media with respect to its role in the society as an agenda-setter. |
Pages: 819-825 The established role of caregivers is to be there for their loved one in their hard times and be able to provide for their specific needs. The task is such a tedious process that it may deplete whole lot of resources of the caregiver in every aspect like physical, emotional, financial and social. The literature aims to point out at the psychological hardships a caretaker goes through while looking after the patient, which includes, depression, anxiety, stress and so on. Lack of proper knowledge with the caregivers often leads to mismanaged guardianship which increases their stress and leaves them in despair. Hence, interventions like psycho education training and Traditional Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are being carried out to help the caregivers. Literature suggests that, Psycho education training shave empowered the lives of caregivers and 8 weeks of Traditional Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Sessions have relieved the caregivers partially from stress, anxiety and depression. Though the aim of this research is to introduce a new intervention as an aid to the caregivers which is called the fourth wave of CBT, i.e., Positive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. The biggest gaps evident from the literature are that positive CBT hasn't been used yet. It is believed that this therapy would help caregivers not only reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress but would be a positive reinforcement to their well-being. Positive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy aims at helping individual's builda more ideal future for them, where they would likely be happy to see themselves. As Bannink believes that the aim of therapy should not only be reduction of symptoms but making clients work towards a brighter future which reduces the rate of relapse. |
Pages: 826-829 Present study explored the relationship between youth problems and suicidal ideation in youth. Researchers have chosen college students in the age group of 18 to 20 years. The sample size was 400 students. The research was conducted in universities and colleges. Samples were collected from students by filling the questionnaire. Results were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation method. Results indicated the positive correlation between youth problems and suicidal ideation. Result showed the significant correlation between four areas in youth problems and suicidal ideation. The four areas are: Family problems, school/college problems, social problems and lastly the personal problems and over sensitivity have positive correlation with suicidal ideation. |
Pages: 830-836 Belongingness is the humanoid drive to form affirmative and long-term interpersonal relationships and in the long run to be a part of a social group milieu (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). Humans have an integral longing to belong in interpersonal relationships, failure to fulfill this desire outcome in mental suffering and loneliness. Lack of belonging can be encountered with terrible consequences to psychological well-being. The present study was planned to tap the role of family belongingness in subjective well-being of the participants from Uttar Pradesh (India). Family Belongingness Motive Scale (Afroz & Tiwari) and Subjective well-being scale (Nagpal) were directed on a sample of 301 male, female and third gender participants. Extreme group strategy was implemented to identify the low and high family belongingness group. Scores above Q3 and below Q1 were considered as high and low family belongingness group. Finally a data of 197 subjects was subjected to one way analysis of variance for different groups of subjects. High and low family belongingness groups were found to be significantly differed for Positive affect, Negative affect, Rootedness and Belongingness and subjective well-being overall. Furthermore, male, female and third gender participants also differed significantly for Positive affect, Density and social network and expectation achievement harmony. The insinuations of the study are also discussed in the light of existing literature. |
Sexual abuse, sexuality and desire of daughters: A reflection on the changing familial relationships Pages: 837-841 Psychoanalysis and Feminism have been concerned with questions of femininity and sexuality in women. In India, having a daughter is particularly fraught with anxieties of dependence, sexuality and legitimacy of her needs. The unwantedness of a girl child coupled with sexual abuse make the phenomenon of sexuality and selfhood traumatic. Often in cases of childhood sexual abuse (with its subsequent emotional neglect) leads to states of dissociation, frozen self-states (Bromberg, 2001) and a tumultuous relationship with one's body. The body becomes the site at which traumatic memories get enacted. Questions of sexuality become intertwined with questions of existence. Often these women survivors require relational and interpersonal spaces within and outside families where the shame, pain and confusion of the abuse and sexual development can be mentalised. In this paper, the complex weave of care and desire in parenting is examined, where care without an acknowledgments of the sexual parts of the young woman only leads to more oppression and violence. Sexual development without an affective care points towards the psychological poverty of the Indian family. Withdrawal of affection post puberty and emotional distancing from the daughter often become traumatic markers in the life of the young woman. What are the spaces a young daughter can access in India to find a home for her desire? Psychotherapeutic work can be used to create a gender identity and bring into language the unconscious gendered experience. The paper charts the psychological changes and changing familial relationships with a daughter. Sexual abuse and emotional neglect have been mindfully twinned to locate the experience of the young daughter and her psychological place in the family. |
Pages: 842-844 The present study aims to understanding patterns of stress, home and environmental adjustment of soldier's wives. This study is based on 25 semi urban and 15 rural females (age range 22-35). For exploring the present phenomenon, open ended interview has been conducted. The data revealed and unique pattern of stress, home and emotional adjustment among such females. The absence of continuous proximity with husband makes such women's life experience quite distinct from others. The reported almost no conflict with their husbands. The experienced sexual arousal, seeking other couples in the family or neighbourhood. it generated stress and consequent feeling of irritability. These women were found to be experiencing alone, overburdened with responsibilities, in secured and unable to rear their children properly. The social relationship in the family was found to be guided by economic factor. In case of any conflict among with the husband and the family members, she openly turned out to be loser. Thus it is a continuous process of repression and miss fortune for the wives of soldiers and also for their children. |
Pages: 845-848 Livelihood activities are applied strategy for coping with environmental, economic, social shocks and instrumental in the reduction of poverty. In this study, we have assessed the effect of Self-help Group members livelihood activities on the decision making ability of Bhiwani district of Haryana. It was observed after joining the Self-help Groups by the women respondents have increased their decision making ability due to increasing of self-confidence, self-reliance, enthusiasm and women em-powerments. The maximum respondents were belonging from Schedule Caste (SC) caste (52.2%) followed by Other Backward Caste (OBC) caste. The decision making ability was significantly increased after the joining of SHGs by the women respondents in the field of expenditure of family consumer goods, religious functions, children's education, working outside the home and social aspects areas. The primary data were collected on the bases of simple random sampling for the selection of location and the Self-help Groups selected through convenience sampling. The sample size for this study is 160 women's of different Self-help Groups. The data are analysis through SPSS 20.0 software. ANOVA (Analysis of variance) was used to test the variations among the respondents in relation to participation in the decision-making process. |
Pages: 849-851 Socio economic development in the country along with various indicators of knowledge as gained through various systems of education have played a very significant role in each socio-economic group. The society has gained knowledge through various systems of education prevailing in various fields of specialization, i.e., education, technological, scientific, agricultural and many more. In the recent past it is being observed that in the field of education especially in the educational institutions there is an exponential growth in the habit of absenteeism amongst various groups of pupil teachers. The literature on the absenteeism characteristics and socio-economic indicators of the pupil teacher is very scanty. In order to meet the gap in knowledge, the researcher has tried to establish relationship between the socio-economic status and absenteeism amongst a group of pupil teachers studying in various colleges of education in Haryana. |
Pages: 852-857 The basic goal of the study was to understand the role of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness dimensions of Big Five personality in impacting the nature and extent of children's forgiveness. The study chooses three hundred children with equal number of males (M = 10.01, SD = 0.85) and females (M = 10.00, SD = 0.90) with age ranging from 7 years to 11 years. The Big Five Questionnaire-Children (Barbaranelli, Caprara, Rabasca, & Pastorelli, 2003) and forgiveness vignette of children (Goss, 2002) were used to measure personality and forgiveness of the children, respectively. The findings exhibited that the female children significantly achieved higher mean scores on conscientiousness and emotional stability dimensions of personality as compared to the males while no gender differences were observed in the extraversion, agreeableness and openness personality traits. Conversely, the male children showed significantly higher achievement in the mean score of forgiveness as compared to their female counterparts. The extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability dimensions of personality showed significant positive correlations with the scores of forgiveness of the male children while significant as well as non-significant negative correlations were recorded among these scores for the female children. Irrespective of gender, non-significant positive correlations were recorded among these scores for children. Gender and, extraversion and conscientiousness personality dimensions contributed significantly to the scores of forgiveness of children. The study observed a significant role of personality in understanding forgiveness of children. The findings have theoretical and practical implications for researchers, parents, teachers and educational policymakers. Directions for future research and limitations of the study have been presented. |
Pages: 858-862 Bullying is one of the important issues faced by adolescents worldwide. Attachment theory provides an explanation to study such externalizing behaviors among adolescents and to explore the role of attachment in the development of bullying behavior. Along with mother and father attachment, peer attachment during adolescence becomes more important since the object of attachment expands to individuals beyond family. Based on this theoretical foundation, the present study was conducted to assess the relationship between bullying, mother attachment, father attachment and peer attachment. The sample comprised of 614 adolescents of age 12-18 years drawn from various schools of Jammu, J & K. The required data was collected using Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) and Illinois Bully Scale (Espelage & Holt, 2001). The data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analyses. It was found that mother attachment and peer attachment were significantly negatively correlated with bullying perpetration. Multiple regression analyses reveal that mother attachment and peer attachment significantly negatively predict bullying perpetration among adolescents. The results are discussed in the light of theoretical rationale. |
Pages: 863-866 Social support is very essential to overcome difficulties of life. Human as social creatures, they prefer to live in groups and help each other. In Maslow's theory need for love and belongingness is an important component. It is associated with human social need such as acceptance by society and making relationships. This is a condition in which chronic underline anxiety and unresolved conflicts are evident in patient such as numbness, paralysis, or seizures. These symptoms have no neurological explanations. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based interventions has been proved as an effective treatment for treatment of conversion disorder. Medicine like sertraline was also recommended to reduce symptom associated with disorder. Aim of current research was to see the 'effect of CBT combined with medicine on social support in conversion disorder patients'. Quasi experimental research design is followed for the study. A sample of 15 female patients with conversion disorder selected from Delhi NCR region. P.G.I. Social Support Questionnaire Nehra, Kulhara, and Verma (1998)were administered on patients suffering from conversion disorder to measure the level of pre and post intervention level of social support. Intervention was provided to them with CBT combined with medicine. On pre and post treatment assessment significant difference is find in social support (t = 4.92; p<.001). CBT combined with medicine improves the social support in Conversion disorder patients. |
Pages: 867-870 Change is inevitable and with time everything changes at its own pace. None of the factors, be it psychological or social can be prevented from change. One of the most influential factors in child's life is parenting. Parenting can be defined as a process through which parents nourish their children with care, love values and other factors. In the last decades, parenting and parenting style have gone through a tremendous amount of change. Along with parenting style, the parent-child relationship has also transformed. Keeping this in mind, the present paper has tried to explore what is parenting, different styles of parenting and how parenting and parent child-relationship has changed over time. This paper has been done by reviewing different papers and articles and it was found that the family structure, expansion in the opportunities and choices available to parents as well as children have influenced parenting to a great extent. The advent of technology has brought everything in the immediate reach of children which has resulted in decreased level of patience in children and has made parenting a burdensome task. Besides the differences, the paper also indicates towards the evidences in support of the notion that similarities transmit from one generation parents to the next one. |
Pages: 871-873 The Honour killing have assumed dangerous and in-human acts. The term honour killing is a contradictory word, honour means a person or an institution for spreading his or her name and worth before the nation or world. suppose specific community appreciates any cruel activity, in this situation we used to say such practice should not be continued in modern scenario. So how can we add the term honour with the murder or killing. On one hand we talk about women empowerment equal right, growth and bring the millennia to our glorious country and on the other hand we take the initiative of wearing our society with such a heinous crime like honour killing. It Not only the crime but the name itself of the crime that discussed the learn'd and the rational human being of the Indian society. The lose on applies to killing of both males and females in culture that practice it. |
Pages: 874-878 Environmentalism in the context of psychological science is a behavioral toned proclivity to take actions with pre-environmental intent. The preliminary footstep towards understanding the intricacies between human psyche and environmental consequence is to examine on the axiom that behavior is predominantly a function of the organism and its environment Change of mind which is in the form of actionable behavior often entail contravention old habits and becomes established by making new. This emerging field of interface between psychology and environmental science is presently looking for robust models that can incorporate variables from more than one of the above broad domains. They should be able to propose interactions from both the disciplines, and channelize its scope for explaining one or more types of environmentally significant behavior so as to foster sustain ability and social wellness. This scholastic work has visited the psychological aspect focusing on individual's belief, drives, and so forth in order to understand and change the target behavior that stands detrimental to the living environment. The conceptual review has also tried to state a broad fame-work that can increase theoretical rationale of both psychology and environmental economics domain in humanities and social science. |
Pages: 879-888 The study tried to understand the relation between multiple intelligences and academic achievement in second language (L2) English among Madhyamik Pariksha (M.P.) passed out class XI standard learners. Sample: 605 learners (male: 298, female: 307, 16+ years old) from 13 co-educational higher secondary schools/madrasah in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. Tools used: i. Multiple Intelligences Test (MIT), and ii. Information Schedule. Findings indicated that out of eight intelligences, high achievers and low achievers under study differed significantly in linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences whereas the two groups did not differ with respect to bodily-kinesthetic and naturalist intelligences. Besides, eight intelligences, as measured with MIT, were not found as correlates of academic achievement in L2 English in case of both the respondent groups. |
Pages: 889-892 The present study examined how menopausal symptoms severity and self-compassion shape well-being among middle-aged employed women. Menopausal symptoms are related negatively to well-being but self-compassion is expected to wane the effect of the symptoms and positively shape the well-being. A sample of 60 employed females in between the age range of 50-60 years and in their post-menopausal stage were selected using purposive sampling technique for the study. The tools used for the study included Menopause Symptom Severity Inventory given by Pimenta, Leal, Maroco, and Ramos (2012); Self-compassion scale by Neff (2003); and Psychological Well-being Scale by Ryff (1995). A 2*2 factorial design was applied and the results revealed that the menopausal symptoms had a significant impact on psychological well-being and some of its domains whereas the effect of self-compassion and interaction of both the independent variables was non-significant on well-being or any of its domain. |
Pages: 893-897 Driving is a complex and dynamic information-processing task which requires coordination of various visual, motor and cognitive abilities (Haring, Ragni, & Konieczny, 2012). For a safe driving, a driver has to constantly update the information of the situations he is driving in, cognitively process, and accordingly act on that information without any delay. The cognitive processes that are required for driving includes attention, WM, visuospatial abilities, visual search and the knowledge associated with the details of vehicle operation. The current study engaged 30 drivers to participate in a naturalistic driving study. This study investigated the correlation between the measures of gaze behavior (in terms of fixation duration, fixation counts, visit duration & visit counts on direction signboards) of drivers and driving performance (in terms of slips & lapses). The paper discusses the role of working memory (WM) processes in distracted driving and the effects thereof on driving performance and gaze behavior of drivers. |
Pages: 898-904 We as society are always focused on the negatives, i.e., we always point out and talk about anti-social behaviour but rarely do we talk about or point out the small good actions that we do everyday which leads to the thriving of this society lie following traffic rules, helping elderly, etc. The aim of this research was to have an in-depth understanding of prosocial behaviour. The relationship of prosocial behaviour with emotional intelligence and personality traits was assessed along with studying the gender differences, differences on emotional intelligence and personality variables between slow and high scorers of prosociality and media influences on the same. For the purpose of the study 100 young adults aged 18-25 years were asked to complete a questionnaire compiled using the Helping Attitude Scale, NEO-FFI and HEXACO, and TEIQue-SF and further two self-constructed movies were shown. Results indicated that emotional intelligence and personality traits except extraversion and openness to experiences were significantly and positively correlated with prosocial behaviour. Further no significant gender differences were found. The low and high scorers of posocial behaviour differed significantly on emotional intelligence and personality variables except extraversion and openness to experiences. Lastly it was found that media has a very direct and specific influence on prosocial behaviour with positive media film significantly affecting participants with low scores on prosocial behaviour and negative media film influencing those with high scores. Thus the study was concluded with a broadened understanding about prosocial behaviour and also with the knowledge of how to use media efficiently to foster prosocial behaviour. |
Pages: 905-911 The unemployment rate in Jammu & Kashmir is higher than the national average and also happens to be highest in North India. Moreover, amongst the gender category wise unemployment rates, there is a sizeable wide margin, female unemployment being on the far upper end (NSSO, 68th Round). This, coupled with the fact that Jammu & Kashmir is a conflict affected state. It thus, becomes imperative to engage the economically active populations of the state in meaningful livelihood pursuits. This paper is an analytical review of the Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY) from a gender perspective using the prescribed International Labour Organisation (ILO) framework. A critical analysis of the policy and associated schemes seeks to establish a disconnect between the policy framework and gender concerns. If gender considerations remain dissociated from employment policy, the unemployment problem will continue to be one of the gravest maladies hindering the development of Kashmir. |
Pages: 912-916 This study explores the effects of “mass media” on students‟ career selection. The data will be collect through online survey method by employing Simple Random sampling technique from the sixth semester students of three leading college of New Delhi. The paper tries to understand importance of mass-media in career selection of Indian college Youth. To achieve the above purposes, focus semi structure interviews will be conducted with college students of University of Delhi. By reporting the findings from an Indian college youth, the paper provides theoretical and practical implications for career development for college going students in India. This study will be able to find that media is also playing a significant role in career selection. |
Pages: 917-921 School education in India is a challenge to policy makers, educators, families, and communities. The quest for establishing services that address school children's mental health needs is now gaining increased momentum . Individuals with higher career aspiration are likely to be hard working for the attainment of their goals which contribute towards higher academic achievement and further it results in high level of self esteem . To study the career aspiration and its relationship with academic achievement and self esteem. To carry out the research, purposive sampling was employed on 100 school adolescents including 50 boys and 50 girls. Pearson's product moment coefficient of correlation was conducted to study the correlation between career aspiration, Self-esteem and Academic achievement. Positive Correlation was found between career aspiration, academic achievement and self esteem, Results indicated that high academic achievement is positively correlated with high career aspiration and self esteem. The level of career aspiration is an expected level of achievement of an individual which is positively related to high academic achievement that together enhances the self esteem of school adolescents. The present study provides useful insight towards the relationship among career aspiration, academic achievement and self esteem. So, to some extent it will help in understanding the role of these factors to combat the challenges of education system. |
Pages: 922-926 The present study attempts to understand the changing occupational and economic status of Ravidasias. It also tries to see the social mobility and change among them by the diversification in occupations and use of modern technology in traditional occupation to develop as small entrepreneurs. This study also analysed to what extent the development programmes and better economic opportunities offered by other occupations make them more autonomous and have reinforced the motivation of Ravidasias to achievehigher social status. With these considerations present paper is presented. |
Pages: 927-932 The objective of this research paper is to study social networking (Selfie) dependency as a function of personality and gender. Social networking is the biggest event of our society. Use of social networking site we can begin socialized All over the world 50 car ore people joint together face book “Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words and pictures. Social networking gather information on user's social contacts, construct a large interconnected social network and reveal to user's how they are connected to other network. In 1995, the first social networking is innovation came in which successive years of school children have been able to connect together in a mutually virtualized manner. Social networking is an easy and fast tool to connect with society, like under the e-learning 1420 school have been included in Uttaranchal Many tasks ranging from collaboration within and between organizations. This analysis examines whether social network are structured in a way to allow effective local search. This is the survey research during this paper we describe how personality and gender dependent on social networking site selfie. |
Pages: 933-937 The evolution of technology revolutionized the whole world. The slogan of 3R- reading, writing and arithmetic changed to 3A- Anyone, Anywhere and Anytime. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are gaining very much popularity all over the world as providing the learning opportunities to hundreds of thousands of learners of their interest area. India's higher educational institutions are planning to offer these massive online courses to their students through blended learning approach. In this context, it is very much important to explore student's readiness (preparedness) for taking this opportunity. The present study explored the readiness of university students towards Massive Open Online Courses. This is a case study of Central University of Haryana, Mohendargarh. Readiness basically here means the minimum essential requirements necessary for MOOC learning. The study is descriptive-survey based in nature. A questionnaire was administered to 100 post graduation students of Central university of Haryana, who were selected through random sampling procedure. Data was collected from the selected respondents and analyzed by using frequency rate and percentage method. Results of the study showed that there is a lack of readiness among students towards successful learning of MOOCs. The study also provided the recommendations for improving the readiness for MOOC learning among students. |
Pages: 938-940 Intelligence has always been a widely researched area in psychology and the psychometric approach to intelligence testing has received much attention and importance. The aim of this paper is to understand intelligence from the point of view of critical social psychology. The ideas and assumptions of critical social psychology have been applied to the understanding of intelligence and intelligence testing. The paper is divided into two sections; the first gives an outline of critical social psychology and the next section applies the principles of critical social psychology to the understanding of intelligence. |