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Pages: 1519-1524 Alcoholism has been a major issue to be addressed. Emotional intelligence and impulsivity play important role in decision making. Cognitive distortions and defense mechanisms shape the way towards decisions the person might make. The present study aimed at studying the relationship of Emotional Intelligence, Impulsivity, Cognitive Distortion and Defense Mechanism to alcohol dependence. For the study purpose, 30 Alcohol dependent and 30 healthy individuals were selected. Barrat Impulsiveness scale (BIS-11), Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory, Cognitive Distortion Scale, Defense Mechanism Inventory and General Health questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) were used for the assessment purpose in the present study. Independent sample t- test and Pearson correlation was used to analyze the data. Result showed that alcohol dependent lacked in Emotional Intelligence, had high impulsiveness, showed tendency to use cognitive distortion and immature defense mechanism more often. Emotional intelligence, impulsivity, cognitive distortion and defense mechanism plays important role in alcohol dependence. |
Pages: 1525-1529 The purpose of the study is to know the psychological disturbances in children and adolescents involved in rag-picking. The sample consisted 250 children and adolescents which is selected from the community of rag-pickers in East Delhi, Near- Seemapuri. Developmental Psychopathology check list has been used to assess the state of mind of children in different areas and to know the emotional and behavioral problems of children. Highest scores of mean 8.05 which indicates that most of the children are suffering from developmental problems and stressful life also find the correlation between emotional and behavioral problems and self- esteem of children. Most of the variables are found high self -esteem of children in general self with development a psychopathology. |
Pages: 1530-1534 The risk-taking behaviour in adolescence is a major issue in recent times which has significant consequence to the individual as well as to the society. The risk behaviour includes risky driving, cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, illegal drug abuse, risky sexual behaviour, risky eating behaviour, violence, deviant behaviour and increased suicide rate. A cross sectional study was carried out to find out the prevalence, socio demographic characteristics and gender difference in risk taking behaviour among school going adolescents of Ranchi City, Jharkhand. 1470 Students studying in class 9 to 12 from two English medium and two Hindi medium schools of Ranchi city were assessed using socio demographic Performa and adolescent risk behaviour screen. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics chi square test. Result showed that 8% of adolescents engage in multiple risk-taking behaviours and boys engage in risk Behavior more than girls (prevalence among male was 9.6% & female 5.6%).Peak age for high risk behaviour was 15 years. Gender difference was assessed by chi square test and significant difference was obtained on religion, residence, mothers' occupation, parents' marital status and scores of severity of adolescent risk behaviour. In conclusion, Prevalence of adolescent engaging in multiple high risk behaviour is 8% and male are more prone for engaging in risk behaviour and psychosocial factors such as religion, residence, family influence and severity of risk behaviour are different for male and female adolescents who engage in risk taking behaviour. Future research in this area must focus on relationship between various psychosocial factors and adolescent risk-taking behaviour. |
Pages: 1535-1538 Mindfulness refers to being aware of and attentive to the momentary occurrence of events both internally and externally by calmly observing and attending to one's thoughts, sensations and feeling at the present moment (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Yildirim & Dark, 2018). It is the state of attentiveness in which an individual becomes conscious of the present moment (Good et al., 2015). Dual-tasking is explained as the process of executing two tasks at the same time (Pashler, 2000). Multitasking refers to the shifts in attention that place the person's focus on a different tasks (Biemann & Kearney, 2010). The objective of the study was to observe the differences between mindfulness groups with regard to their performance under different task conditions. The sample comprised of 100 girl students in the age range of 15-18yrs (Mean age-16.5). ANOVA revealed interesting interplay between mindfulness and the different tasks conditions. |
Pages: 1539-1542 The Present study is an attempt in the direction of evaluating the effectiveness of PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous & Successive Processing) Model based cognitive intervention. PREP (Pass Reading Enhancement Programme), and COGENT (Cognitive Enhancement) are the two intervention programms of PASS Model. The present study has applied these two cognitive interventions on the children of class III to V, who were diagnosed as reading disabled. 20 sessions of both the types of intervention has been given to the children. Each session was of 1 hour session. Both group and individual session were given as per requirement. A pre-post research design was carried out. A significant improvement in academic achievement was found out after the successful completion of the intervention programme. Even individually in each class the effect was found to be significant. Thus the PREP and COGENT were found to be very effective cognitive enhancement programme in the sample of reading disabled children. |
Pages: 1543-1546 This study was conducted to assess the anxiety among diamond workers with respect to their job task. Three hundred forty-two diamond workers have been enrolled from Ahmedabad, Gujarat ranging between 18 to 60 years belonging to five different job tasks - Ghattarasi (n=37), Table cutting (n=35), Talia bottom (n=123), Athpel (n=78) and Mathala (n=69). Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) has been used to assess the level of anxiety among diamond workers. Results showed a moderate level of anxiety (M=11.69, SD=6.5) among diamond workers. One-way ANOVA revealed no significant difference in anxiety scores across different job tasks except Ghattarasi workers. Ghattarasi workers did not show the presence of anxiety. Hence, the level of anxiety among diamond workers has not been significantly influenced by their job task a part from Ghattarasi workers. |
Pages: 1547-1549 The objective of this article is to study the performance of Purvanchal Urban Co-operative bank on the basis of ratio analysis. The basic parameter to that determines the success of any organization is how effectively they utilize their financial resources. Ratio analysis is the best way to determine the performance of any banking institution, which further generates return for stakeholders. In banks there should be proper management of resources, if not properly managed will lead to reduction in benefits through short term investments and over burden of unnecessary expenses. A balanced capital management is said when there is not neither excessive allocation of funds nor too low allocation of funds, so that banks may miss the opportunity of profitable investments as well as short term liquidity crisis. Profitability and liquidity is the two basic objective of any bank, which can only be obtained by adequate management of working capital. On the other hand, every bank has to fallow fixed norms of central banks in order to safeguard the interest of common people as well as nation. Hence from the above prospective the study is important. |
Pages: 1550-1555 During the past few decades, a considerable number of research attempts have been made to study the nature of Type-A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and its relationship with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), stress and certain personality dispositions. Although attempts have been made to find relationship between TABP and personality traits, a number of well - established dimensions have been ignored completely. The present study is an effort in this direction with the objective to examine the relationship of TABP with normal and pathological dimensions. A total of 150 male subjects were drawn randomly from the teaching departments of KUK and they were given Clinical Analysis Questionnaire and Jenkins activity Survey (Form-C). These two tests provided scores on 31 variables in total. The scores on all 31 measures were subjected to required statistical analysis, viz., Mean, Standard Deviation, Skewness, Kurtosis, Correlation and Principal Component Factor Analysis. Principal Component Factor Analysis yielded ten factors with Eigen value greater than 1.00. The study has found that Type A Behavior correlated significantly with normal personality dimensions of G (Super Ego Strength), H-(Shyness) and M (Imaginative) , and pathological dimensions of D4-(High Anxious Depression) PS (High General Psychosis). Speed and Impatience Scale of Jenkins Activity Survey has correlated significantly with normal personality dimensions N-(Artlessness), Q3-(Low Self Sentiment Integration) and Q4 (High Ergic Tension), and pathological dimensions of D1 (High Hypochondriasis), D4 (High Anxious Depression), etc. |
Pages: 1556-1561 Hand writing analysis is the analysis of different characteristics present in the letters or any writing. Characteristics of handwriting mainly formed on the basis of mental conception of the writer. The study is examining whether the artistic mental conception is more in female or male. For this study investigator collected twenty hand writing samples from male population and twenty from female population and found the artistic formation of letters and their percentage of both letters in each data, and samples out of forty. The hand writing data is comprised of 'London Letters'. |
Pages: 1562-1564 To observe rural-urban differences in somatometric parameters among the migrated Poundra caste population. A cross sectional study method was conducted with the total of 251 adults (148 rural &103 migrated urban both males & females) were taken from the Poundra population. Somatometric measurements like height, weight and BMI were considered for this present study. From the findings of the present study it can be concluded that there is a significant differences of height and weight between males and females. It is observed that the values for urban male weight and BMI parameters are significantly greater when compared with rural females and when compared with urban female and rural female the weight and BMI parameters were found to be greater in urban females. With the age wise differences the weight and height was found to be significantly different in female category. The changes in economic conditions, dietary intakes, physical activity and lifestyles, which may be responsible for increase in weight as well as BMI among urban individuals. |
Pages: 1565-1569 The purpose of this study was to compare the depression rate among university athletic and non-athletic students. 250 of the male (n=148) and female (n=102) who were 21-25 old students of Pondicherry University were selected randomly. Beck Depression inventory (BDI) was demonstrated to assess the depression rate comprising 21 questions. In this research study, the internal validity of the questionnaire was determined as 0.81by using the coefficient alpha and Data were explored by student's t-test and one way analysis of variance. By analyzing the designed hypotheses was showed significant difference in the rate of depression at the p≤0.01 between athletic and non -athletic university students. Further findings disclosed that students in Social Science and Arts have been found to be more depressed than science and management background students (p <.05). University first year students reported experiencing more depression (p<.05) and there is no significant difference observed between gender. The findings of this study speak in support or favor of institution-based physical as well as psychological well-being support services for the university students to facilitate them to overcome the depression. |
Pages: 1570-1573 Having parents with mental illness negatively affects children's social, psychological, and physical health than children are whose parents not having any mental illness. Researches also show a greater rate of behavioral, developmental, and emotional problems in these children when compared with the general population. Families who are having apparent with mental illness are at enlarged risk of financial crisis, housing problems, family interruption, decline of social and leisure activities, interference of children's schooling and segregation because of parent's mental illness. Children who are having parents with mental illness feel lonely, anxious about their parent health or feel they need more extra time or effort to take care of parents. The stigma for mental illness in the society also affects the lifestyle and mental health of children's who are having parents with mental illness. The present study was planned to assess the behavioral problems in the children of parents with schizophrenia and to compare with general population. A sample of 60 parents of children from 5 to 15 years was selected for the present study. In which 30 parents were fulfilling the criteria for schizophrenia and 30 children of healthy parents who meet inclusion and exclusion criteria of study. General Health Questionnaire-12 and Childhood psychopathology measurement schedule were used for evaluation. There is significant difference has been observed in the score of Childhood Psychopathology Measurement Schedule on the domains- conduct disorder, anxiety disorder, and depression disorder, psychotic and special symptoms in both the groups. Overall findings suggest that there are more behavioral problems in children of parents with schizophrenia as compare to general population. The study finding depicts there being an association between child behavioral problems and parental mental illness. |
Pages: 1574-1579 Local self-government, because of their proximity to the crisis event and awareness of the social, cultural, and economic milieu of the impacted community, can play a major part in designing, coordinating, also guiding community-based catastrophe relief efforts. An effective local self-governmental response towards disaster response and recovery is critical as it assists the impacted region in recovering from the social, political, and economic impacts at a faster pace. However, the dramatic and tragic events that unfolded soon after the 2004 tsunami once again exposed the fragility of the local, state, and national disaster management system. Research (Comfort, Ko, & Zagorecki, 2004) indicate that inadequate resources, poor communication, and lack of coordination among governmental and non-governmental agencies are some of the most recurring problems for organizational performance in disaster relief efforts. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the various social, political, and economic barriers that hindered local self-government's optimal participation in the disaster relief operations, mainly related to Alappad Panchayat in Kerala following the 2004 tsunami. Also, the study attempts to review the post-disaster activities of the various stakeholders especially PRI's about the disastrous tidal wave which hit the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu,and Andaman Nicobar Islands. Specifically, the three major underlined research objectives of the study were to: (a) analyze the formal and informal institutional mechanisms that exist for disaster management in the state, (b) examine the problems and obstacles faced by local self-government in actively managing disaster response; and (c) explore possible ways through which local self-government can be optimally involved in disaster response and recovery. The investigator used a purposive sampling method to recruit the required number of respondents for the study. An interview guide prepared which contained questions specifically intended to capture the problems encountered by local self-government in managing the crisis event. In-depth qualitative interviews conducted with 10 participants. The qualitative analysis presented in detail as major themes and the paper concludes that local self-government can play a heightened role in providing and coordinating relief efforts, particularly in natural resource-based communities. Findings imply that, in disaster contexts, development professionals have the potential to assume a leadership role and help empower local communities to respond effectively to disasters. |
Pages: 1580-1583 Prosocial behavior is an act which places others before the self where the individual is motivated to help another being and expects nothing in return. In the contemporary world, one form of prosocial behavior that is altruism is rare to be seen. Altruism or selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others. At present, the mortality rate is on a rise which could be because of many reasons among which bystander effect could be a major contributing factor. This created an interest for the researchers to study the relationship between the Big Five Personality traits and Altruism. For this purpose data has been collected from 73 young adults, using the convenience sampling method. It was found that all of the Big five personality traits except for extraversion was found to be related to Altruism and there was no gender difference among the variables except neuroticism. |
Pages: 1584-1587 The study examined the relationship between Quality of life, Depression, Anxiety and Stress. The sample (n=100) compromised of diabetic, in the age range of (30-75) years randomly chosen from the general public in Thiruvanathapuram, Kotayam, and Ernakulam districts, Kerala. Depression, Anxiety, Stress scale (DASS 21) (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) and Quality of Life scale (Warrier & Raj, 1999) were administered. A correlation design and t test was employed for the processing of data. A significant negative relationship between study variables is found and the gender difference on the basis of study variables is discussed. |
Pages: 1594-1599 The young minds of today are seen to have multiple behavioural issues which weren't so rampant in the past. Most of these problems in the daily lives of adolescents are said to be due to lack of empathetic skills and a definitive absence of being grateful for the resources they have. As psychologists, we make an attempt at enhancing empathy and gratitude among adolescents to inculcate pro-social behaviour. Empathy involves understanding, perceiving the situation from another person's perspective and these two together are essential traits in order to comprehend pro-social behavior. Gratitude is feeling thankful of what one has and feeling optimistic about what life has offered. Pro-social behavior is a voluntary behaviour to benefit others. The main objective of this study was to under stand the effect of empathy and gratitude on pro-social behaviour among Indian adolescents. The sample for the said study had 120 adolescents within the age bracket of 15-17 years. 60 out of these belonged to a nuclear family and 60 were from joint families. The tools used were Empathy Situational Test, GQ-6 and PTM-R. Scoring and statistical analysis followed and it was found that there is a significant effect of gratitude and empathy on pro-social behaviour. The results also showed that gender had a significant difference where males scored higher than females and there was no significant difference in terms of family type as a predictor of pro-social behaviour in the current study. The study emphasizes on further work in this topic and a strong need for the counsellors in schools and parents to take part in effective utilization of resources and improving positive behaviours in children. |
Pages: 1600-1604 The entrepreneur is one of the most important inputs used in the production process. Entrepreneurs are creators of new firms. They accelerate economic growth, provide job opportunities and raise the productivity by introducing new technology, products, process, methods, and service in a market economy. Women play a vital role in economic development of a country. In traditional India women were confined only to the four walls of their houses but in modern India, Women are now coming forth to the business arena to participate in growth and development activities. From traditional to modern, unorganized to organized, rural to urban, single to joint venture, small to large industries , women are spreading their wings and showing a road for the younger women to join the race of success. In a male dominant society women are making their presence felt also. This paper is dedicated to women entrepreneurs. The primary objective of this research paper is to find out the status of women entrepreneurs in India and to study the participation of women entrepreneurs in SSI (Small scale industries). This paper also highlights about the schemes of GOI for upliftment of Indian women entrepreneurs and other institutional support for women entrepreneurs. |
Pages: 1605-1608 The purpose of the study is to assess whether there is a relation between personality, social adjustment and social desirability of young adults who post their selfie on social media. The individuals who frequently take and post selfie on social media and individuals who comparatively take and post less selfie on social media were also compared on the above-mentioned dimensions. A total sample of 120includes subjects of both sex who post their selfie on social media, educated upto at least secondary level, age range of 16-30 years, from urban Kolkata using purposive sampling method. All the participants were administered NEO five factor inventory, Social Adjustment Inventory and Marlow Crown Social Desirability Scale to assess their personality, social adjustment and social desirability respectively. The result showed that there is a high correlation between agreeableness and social adjustment and there is a significant difference between individuals who frequently take and post selfie on social media and individuals who comparatively take and post less selfie on social media with respect to their extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and social adjustment. |
Pages: 1609-1613 The present study is a comparative study of self-efficacy and psychological well-being among managers employed in private sector organisation and public sector organisation. The sample comprised of 100 middle level managers drawn randomly from the public and private sectors with n=50 from each sector. The Personal Efficacy scale, Singh and Kumari (1990) and Psychological Well-Being scale, Nishizawa (1996)were used. The data were analysed with the help of Mean, SD and “t-test”. Results of the present investigation indicated remarkable difference for variable of self-efficacy as well as for psychological well-being between the managers belonging to public sector organisations and private sector organisations. It was also found that self-efficacy and psychological well-being of managers in private sector have been found better as compared to public sector. |
Pages: 1614-1617 Resilience can be defined as an ability which helps the individuals to cope with the difficult situations effectively. Suicide ideation can be defined as the intention, desire to kill oneself. Suicide ideation comprised of suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior, suicidal attempts, and committing suicide. It is common among youngsters to have suicidal thoughts. The aim of the present study is to find out the resilience and suicide ideation among male and female students studying in Govt. degree colleges of Jammu. Convenience sampling technique was used to collect the data. The data for this study was collected from 200 college students, 100 are the males and other 100 are the females. The statistical techniques applied for the data analysis is t-test and pears on product moment correlation. Results revealed significant gender difference and significant correlation in resilience and suicide ideation among male and female colleges students. Empirical evidences suggest that females have higher resilience whereas male are found to have lower resilience, whereas on the scale of suicide ideation females have higher suicide ideation than males. Results would be helpful in fostering resilience among college students. There must be psychologists available in the colleges, so they can help the students in nurturing a positive view for themselves. Psychologists can figure out the problems of the students and find a way to resolve them. Psychologists can encourage mindfulness practice, resilience training programs, relaxation therapies so that it will strengthen and reorganizes the brain of students in adversities. |
Pages: 1618-1625 The purpose of the study is to decipher the Choice Criteria used by retail Bank customers while selecting a Bank arrived at through systematic literature review This study discovers, analyses and executes a systematic literature review by closely examining 16 articles, between the period 2000-2018, from leading journals studying the choice criteria used by the retail customers while selecting a Bank. The systematic literature review on one side examines various research tools used, theories adopted by various authors and the concepts studied for the selection of retail bank major findings of the previous studies and also provides research gaps for these studies and on the other side. It establishes that although research has been done in past for selection criteria for banks, however most of the studies are either done for commercial customers or Islamic bank's customers or students as subjects, which may not be the true representative of a retail consumer diverse consumer set. Further in order to validate the completeness of the variable list for the context under study, the systematic literature review discovers the absence of a repertoire of factors for the context and thus expert study gains relevance to arrive at a repertoire of factors affecting the context. This is probably the first study that amalgamates systematic literature review and expert survey to arrive at the repertoire of Choice Factors affecting a Retail Bank Customer while choosing a Bank thereby postulating a conceptual model considering both perceived switching cost and perceived trust as a moderators for intention to choose a retail bank. |
Pages: 1626-1631 Despite a large variety of technological channels offered by the banks there are only limited takers for it. Most of the customers are either apprehensive to use it or do not want to use it. Security and privacy have been one major concern. However, making the customer adopt or switch over from branch transactions to self-service technology is a major challenge for the banks. This reduces the cost for the banks and saves it from setting up huge infrastructure. With the growth of self-service technologies, it has become imperative to focus on research in this area and shift focus from inter-personal to technology interface especially in banking. Banks have invested heavily in these electronic channels but only ATM has picked up. Other channels like Internet banking, mobile banking and tele-banking are yet to pick up. This paper examines the factors responsible for customers' behavioral intentions to use banking self-service technologies like ATM, Mobile banking and Internet banking besides branch banking. Multiple regression model was used to identify these factors. Behavioral intentions was taken as a dependent variable while trust, the ease of use, convenience, social norms, attitude, satisfaction, compatibility, facilitating conditions, behavioral control and usefulness as explanatory variables. A comparison of Public and Private sector banks has been done. The study reveals that customers' behavioral intentions have a positive effect on adoption. In case of Internet banking, Social Norms and trust are common significant contributors of behavioral intentions. |
Pages: 1632-1636 Alcohol addiction affects people from all walks of life. Many studies attempted and conducted for checking and studying the psychiatric symptoms of alcohol dependence resulting in different losses. Various researchers tried to find out reasons such as socio-cultural aspects, geographical factors to biological one. Present study is an attempt to see psychological aspects involved in addiction. Present study tried to compare and correlate the influence of personality traits: neuroticism, conscientiousness and factors such as anger expression, and impulsivity on addictive behavior. Tools such as NEO-FFI by Costa and McCrae, STAXI by Charles Spielberger and Impulsivity scale by Barrett were administered to a sample of 60 participants combined with clinical and non clinical group. Male participants within age group of 30 to50 years were taken into consideration belonging to urban Nasik region. It was found that alcoholic group and non-alcoholic group differed onall the four dimensions: neuroticism ('t'=4.15) conscientiousness ('t'=3.71) anger expression ('t'=4.81) and impulsivity ('t'=8.06). As a part of co relational findings neuroticism and conscientiousness are negatively correlated with each other for alcoholic group with('r'=-0.29). Thus with an attempt to focus on psychological causal factors it has been significantly proved the difference and relationship though for the limited sample size and comparatively covering smaller geographical area. This study may try to focus in near future on assessing and examining the remedies of intervention and rehabilitation as a major part of the society at present involved in alcohol dependence. |
Pages: 1637-1641 The study was intended to investigate aspects related with future prospects influencing the choice for English medium school. Data was collected with the help of a self-developed scale. Reliability of the scale is 0.738 (Cronbach's Alpha). 900 respondents of class 6th to 8th standard from the nine English medium schools selected from the various parts of Delhi constituted the sample of the study. Factor analysis and chi square tests were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed a higher level of agreement among students for various aspects related to future that influence the choice for English medium school. School's ability to shape the future of students is major factor to influence the choice for English Medium School. |
Pages: 1642-1645 The present investigation was conducted to explore the behavioural problems found to be associated with Bal -Sanskar Kendra (BSK) of Swadhyaya Pariwar and Non-Bal Sanskar Kendra (Non-BSK) of Non- Swadhyaya Pariwar on a total sample of 240 of BSK and Non BSK children including both girls and boys, between the age range of 11 to 14 years old by employing two-group design to measure behavioural problems. Therefore, Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) for age 6-18 by Achenbech and Resocria (2001) was used. The mean scores on the sample of Bal Sanskar (BSK) and Non Bal Sanskar Kendra (Non BSK) children along with factors such as anxiety/depressed, withdrawn behaviour, somatic complaints, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule breaking behaviour and, aggressive behaviour found to be significant on BSK children of Swadhyaya Pariwar than that of Non- BSK children of Non- Swadhyaya Pariwar The obtained F ratio was significant at .01 level. |