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Pages: 761-764 Modern life has been not unequivocally technology driven. Technological presence is in every sphere of life, be it in the classroom of management studies, learning a new recipe for exotic meal, searching location while caught in traffic, or product launch discussion in the board room meeting. Usage of technical gadgets has been rampant in the digitally connected world. People across all age group are using electronic gadgets and technical devices round the clock. Living in virtual world has become a new fascination. People find it as an easy escape route to be oblivious about daily grind. On the screen-time is rising across the world because the image or graphic on screen is more alluring than mundane objects of the world. Since the time person gets up with alarm clock on mobile, he gets busy entire day in sending texts, reading mails, downloading songs, capturing images and watching movies to stay entertained and finding real meaning in smart phone or tablet based activity. This habit is resonating across all geographies. Rather than meeting in person and having a conversation over a cup of coffee sitting across the table, people are connecting through social networking sites or messenger type application on mobile. Due to digital dominance in our daily lives, people are ignoring simple joy of regular activities. Tech-reliance is growing as it is amazingly useful for education, entertainment and exploration of ideas and information. At the same time, tech addiction can be detrimental if the viewers get obsessed with alluring sequences on screen all through the day. Indiscriminate use of TV, laptop, smart phone, tablet causes headache, eye irritation to major psychological disorders. Radiation from electronic gadgets might cause cancer also. So, digital detoxification is highly necessary for mental and physical well being of tech obsessed people. Old habits such as gardening, painting, and making visit to library can be useful to divert mind from electronic devices. If tech dependence is chronic, expert advice can be adhered to restore balance in human life. |
Pages: 765-768 Incivility is a behavior that induces adverse affective, cognitive, and behavioral results to its targeted victims and even to witnesses, and provocateurs. Workplace incivility is a phenomenon being studied to a good extent at the global levels and it has been proved to be adversely impacting individual's health as well as the organizational health. It is causing distress to the target employees' and harming the organization as well as the employees. Often, incivility seems to be too weak to form a configuration of mistreatment and that is why it is not possible to diagnose the issue and help targets. This paper is an as say to inquire the existing literature related to the phenomenon to provide the better understanding of the concept of workplace incivility along with its forms, characteristics, prevalence, causal factors, and consequences of uncivil behaviors. |
Pages: 769-771 Living in complex world is a tough task to accomplish. The complexity comes from different areas of life. They could be external or internal or both. They increase problems in individual life. Some out of the many individuals seek to solution by taking their lives that is called suicide. When someone intentional takes his own life, then it is called suicide. It was legally described as unlawful act in most Western countries. In the social atmosphere such kind of actions are considered as necessary to be taken care off. Many individuals lost their life by committing suicide. There is a keen need to understand all the aspects that said to be reason for such action that could prove to be fruitful to save a person from this act of ending his/her life. Present paper is a small review to understand suicide and related factors with psychological perspective. |
Pages: 772-774 The purpose of the study was to see the effects of employment status on depression and desire for social freedom. In modern times two social issues is very challenging for our society; one is unemployment another is depression 100 females (50 educated employed females & 50 educated unemployed females) was selected for the study. Depression scale byKarim and Tiwari and women social freedom scale by Bhusan was chosen for the collection of data. Results declared that employment status affect the level of depression and also desire for social freedom. Significant difference was found between educated employed and educated unemployed females on the depression and women social freedom's level. And the correlation between depression and women social freedom was 0.14 which is negligible positive correlation. |
Pages: 775-778 Out of Pocket expenditure on medicines constitutes more than 50% of healthcare expenditure in India. The poor are most affected as branded medicines are expensive and treatments involving use of such medicines pushes them further into poverty. To address this issue government central government started Jan Aushadhi (Medicine for the masses) programme in 2008 with the objective of providing quality medicines at affordable prices. The programme envisaged sale of generic medicines through stores to be called “Pradhan Mantri Janaushadhi Kendras” in various districts of the country. This paper seeks to examine and assess the successes and failures of the government initiatives so far, impact on the beneficiaries, challenges in execution and the way ahead. |
Pages: 779-782 The present research endeavor was aimed to investigate the connection between life satisfaction and emotional maturity of adult participants. The sample consisted of 200 participants (100 male & 100 female) taken from Rohtak, Gohana, Behadurgrah, and Jind (cities of Haryana) by using purposive random sampling technique. The sample varies from 40 to 50 years (adults) of age. The partakers are administered with Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh & Bhargava, 1984) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985). The data was analysed to observe the relationship and differences between the variables of both the groups. Results showed that emotional maturity and life satisfaction strongly associated with each other. Moreover, there are found significant gender differences on both the variables. Female participants are having high level of life satisfaction and emotional maturity as compared to male participants Implications of the study are also discussed. |
Pages: 783-788 Epidemiological transition illustrates that changing patterns of population distribution in relation to changing patterns of mortality, fertility, life expectancy and that leading to causes to death. Hypertension is one of the most common and crucial health problems in both developed and under developed countries. Currently, there are more than 970 million population who have been affected and elevated under blood pressure which is so called hypertension in the world wide. It is also estimated that, there are about 330 million people have elevated hypertension in the developed countries whereas about 640 million people affected hypertension in the under developed and developing countries in the world. According to the latest report of World Health Organisation (WHO), hypertension is one of the most serious causes of premature death in both the developed and developing countries across the world and continuously increasing its percentage. In this context, the current study has found that, it is one of the major contributor to the global burden of disease. It is also estimated that, more than 1.56 billion people especially adults above the age group of above 15 years to 35 years will be highly affected under the blood presser as a result, the large scale of morbidity and mortality may be directly or indirectly affect the people across the world. Blood pressure or hypertension is one of the major health problem not only for the youth but also the other age group due to its ambiguity especially in its detective symptoms. As a result, more than 9.4 million deaths each year leads globally according to the latest report. Hypertension is one of the risk factor of CVD. Thus, it makes and give remedial measures to give concrete action against the hypertension which is one of the most and important cause of both mortality as well as mortality not only in the local but also in the global. In this regard, this particular disease is being addressed and given the terminology as a “double burden” of diseases. The main objectives of the study are to identify towards the risk factors of hypertension and its relation to socio-demographic and to indentify stroke, heart and kidney failure in the tribal hamlet of Koraput district in Odisha. A cross sectional study has been conducted from the age of 15 years and above. The proposed study area is situated amidst primitive grandiosity of Eastern Ghats and it is also native to numerous tribal people. However, the changes in lifestyle of these people are highly affected by the risk factor of hypertension therefore, it is pertinent to take concrete measures for their betterment life later than sooner. |
Pages: 789-794 In India, school-based counselling is still to develop with regard to counsellor practice guidelines and frameworks. It is essential to examine the role of a counsellor and the nature of their work for developing clear professional identities to take it toward the future of an integrated and regulated space. The aim of this qualitative and exploratory study, was to explore the role of counsellors as experienced by the nine school counsellors (average work experience of 3.5 years) who participated in the study, in the absence of a national model in the field of school counselling. Purposive sampling was used to identify the participants. The unstructured open-ended interviews were subjected to thematic analysis for study. The findings indicate that counsellors work with stakeholders, primarily the students across a range of presenting needs. An understanding of what counselling is in schools and the emergent finding that counsellors experienced counselling as separate from the overall school functions of a school is discussed. The results have implications for clarification and integration of the counsellor role based on a deeper understanding of school-based counselling. |
Pages: 795-798 This study examines the role of public and private insurers in microinsurance in India using secondary data for the year 2016-17, which has been collected from the IRDAI annual reports. The nature of the research is descriptive cum analytical. The major findings of the study are public sector is leading in both policies issued, a number of lives covered in both individual and group business. However, their claims services need to be improved. The private insurers are relying on other micro insurance agents for business, and have a less significant share in the group insurance business. The claims services are efficient but they may be resorted to accepting the less risky subject matter of microinsurance. |
Pages: 799-804 Even in academia, the long-established 'East-West' dichotomy is typically taken for granted in the production of new knowledge on ultimately old and outdated terms. Due to its unprecedented rise out of poverty and to economic, military, and not least cultural power, the People's Republic of China (PR-China; PRC) has been subjected to the 'East vs. West' discourse more than any other political entity during the last two decades. In fact, many publications seem to disregard the fact that there is an 'East' other than the PRC these days. The present article employs an analysis of the geo-political triangle EU-Europe, US-America and PR-China in terms of politics and perceptions to display that the alleged ontological stability ascribed to the 'East-West' divide is to be seen as an 'Othering' mechanism that 'Western' political structures employ to strengthen their own unity. In fact, PR-China employs essentially 'Western' politics and perceives the political world through 'Western' patterns of sense-making as much as the European Union and the United States fundamentally diverge from each other in what each of them defines as 'Western' values. |
Pages: 317-321 The widespread use of Internet has been continuously escalating after 2000 and today almost every Indian adolescent has access to mobile phones and Internet. With easy access, the youths have the autonomy of use and misuse of Internet. A number of scholars have noticed that the excessive use of Internet adversely affects the mental health and academic performance of the adolescents. The major objective of this study is to examine the relationship between internet usage with mental health and academic performance. The sample was drawn from 8 CBSE schools of Bhopal. A total sample size of 237 from eleventh standard was utilized and the sample was randomly selected from PCM, PCB, and Commerce streams. The standardized scales were used to measure Internet addiction and mental health of the respondents. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used to analyze the data. A significant difference was found in academic grades of students in their tenth standard where PCM and PCB students exhibited higher performance followed by Commerce students. However, the ANOVA result revealed no significant difference on Internet usage and academic grades of students who were in eleventh standard. Finally, a significant difference was found with the PCM students reporting possibility of performance improvement in twelfth standard followed by students of PCB and Commerce. The correlational result indicated the high internet usage contributed positively and significantly with ADHD, ODD, Conduct and Mood Disorder. |
Pages: 322-329 The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the prediction effect of gender and self-concept on career maturity. Following the stratified random sampling technique 1000 students were drawn from different institution at Durg city, to serve as participants in the present research work. Result of the study indicated that, gender and self concept are significant predictors of career maturity. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the prediction effect of gender and self concept on career maturity. |
Pages: 330-333 This paper has investigated the principals' transformational leadership impact on the government and private school teachers of Haryana State, India. A sample of 400 teachers and 100 principals was selected for this purpose. The transformational leadership practices were assessed based on Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). The MLQ scales relevant to transformational leadership proved to be quite reliable and helped in predicting the relation between transformational leadership and teachers' satisfaction and commitment towards their jobs. Behavioral and attitudinal data was collected from both principals and teachers. The analysis illustrated that transformational leadership has a significant impact on male as well as female teachers working in different departments of private or government institutes. |
Pages: 334-341 The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of quality of work life (QWL) of professional and non-professional faculty members in educational institutions of higher learning and to investigate the relationship between the QWL and Organizational Commitment (OC) between professional and nonprofessional faculty members. The first objective of this study is to identify the significant dimensions of QWL of academic and the second objective is to compare the relationship between quality of work life and organizational commitment between the faculty members teaching professional and non -professional courses at private institutions. This study adopted descriptive research and 300 respondents were taken, out of which 150 from public institutions and 150 from private institutions. The results indicate that faculty members teaching professional courses are slightly more satisfied than the faculty teaching nonprofessional courses on the organizational factors, environmental factors and on normative commitment. On the other hand faculty members teaching nonprofessional courses are more satisfied than the faculty members teaching professional courses on the personal factors and continuance commitment. However on the affective commitment both types of faculty members are dissatisfied with the same mean score. Discussions and recommendation are provided in this study. |
Pages: 342-346 Impulsivity has been considered to play an important role in normal behavior as well as linked to several problematic behaviors that are present or arise during adolescence. The objective of the study was to investigate the Effects of Impulsivity on Aggression and Emotional Competence. Two Levels of Impulsivity (High & Low) were measured and the effects of which were studied on Aggression and Emotional Competence. The sample of the study consisted of 100 adolescents from Dehradun between the age group of 14 -18 years, recruited using Stratified Random Sampling Technique, and were equally divided into two Levels of Impulsivity (High & Low). Three questionnaires (Impulsiveness Scale (IS-RSSA) (Hindi Version) by Rai and Sharma, Aggression Inventory (AI-SMK) (Hindi Version) by Sultania, & Emotional Competence Scale by Sharma & Bhardwaj) were administered on the participants to measure their levels of Impulsivity, Aggression and Emotional Competence. Mean, Standard Deviation, and Analysis of Variance, were then calculated. In conclusion the result showed partial differences among the Impulsive participants in association with the dimensions of Emotional Competence and Aggression. Participants did not show any significant difference when compared on the dimensions of Emotional Competence. However, partial dimensional differences were observed in personality with Aggression. |
Pages: 347-351 The uses and gratification scale was developed for assessing why Facebook users use Facebook and what gratifications they derive by using it. The scale was based on a media theory called the uses and the gratification theory. For this purpose, extensive literature review, focused group interviews and a survey was conducted on a sample of 400 undergraduate students from Delhi/NCR. In the first phase a sample of 400 undergraduate students was collected to establish factor structures using Maximum likelihood Method in SPSS software 21.0. Using the final scale of 12 items falling under three factors, data was collected on a sample of 400 undergraduate students again from Delhi/NCR. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed using Smart PLS software 2.0. The results reveled adequate convergent validity and discriminant validity. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the scale was a statistically sound measure. |
Pages: 352-355 The aim of the study was to investigate the Emotional Intelligence in relation to Job Stress and Job Satisfaction among nurses of government and private hospitals. The study was conducted on 200 female nurses (100 from government hospitals & 100 from private hospitals) in the age range of 24-30 years from Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali. The Emotional Intelligence Scale (Schutte et al., 1998); Job Stress Scale (Lambert et al., 2006); and Generic Job Satisfaction Scale (Macdonald &Maclntyre, 1997) were used. The results of the study revealed that the emotional intelligence and its three dimensions (i.e., managing own emotions, managing other's emotions & utilization of emotions) have significant negative correlation with job stress and significant positive correlation with job satisfaction. It was also found that nurses of government hospitals scored higher on emotional intelligence and its dimensions, i.e., perception of emotions, managing one's own emotion, managing others emotion and utilization of emotions, and job satisfaction, whereas nurses of private hospitals scored higher on job stress. Results further stated that three dimensions of emotional intelligence, i.e. managing one's own emotions, managing others emotions and utilization of emotions are significant predictors of job stress, whereas only one dimension of emotional intelligence, i.e. managing others emotions is significant predictor of job satisfaction. |
Pages: 356-362 Autism is a developmental disability impairing an individual's ability to establish meaningful conversation with others. It typically, begins at an early age and as the child grow they experience various psychosocial difficulties. The more complex and severe a child's disability is, the more it is stressful for the caregivers, also the nature of the disability majorly influences caregivers quality of life. As the primary giver is mother, this study was conducted to assess the quality of life and coping with stress of mothers of children with ASD. The present study was conducted on 40 mothers, selected purposively with definite inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results indicated that mothers perceive their quality of life as average, that is neither too good nor bad, and use a variety of coping styles to deal with the demands of caring a child with ASD. The results also indicate that use of instrumental and emotional support, acceptance, positive reframing, active coping and religion are significant predictors of quality of life. These predictors are also positively correlated with quality of life. Self blame, distraction and substance abuse are also significant predictors of quality of life. However, these were found to be inversely related with quality of life. It may be concluded that adaptive coping strategies are pertinent in maintaining healthy quality of life of mothers of children with ASD. |
Pages: 363-367 The increase in the prevalence of depression and suicide rates among children and adolescents especially in India calls for a serious evaluation of the situation. The present study aims to address this problem by studying the relationship between the personality type of adolescents and their score on the depression scale by Karim and Tiwari. The total sample of the study consisted of 100 adolescents. To get the required number of extroverts (n-50) and introverts (n=50), Neymen-Kohilstedt Diagnostic Test was used. Further, the extrovert and introvert category had an equal number of males (n=25) and females (n=25), thus a total of 50 males and 50 females and adolescents in the age group of 14 -17 were included in the study. The findings of the study suggest that introvert and extrovert adolescents differ significantly from each other on the level of depression, and its different dimensions. The introverts had a consistently significant higher depression score than the extroverts. Additionally, the correlation between personality and depression score was negative and significant (r = -0.59) suggesting that as the score on the personality test increased i.e., extroverts, the score on the depression test decreased i.e. lower level of depression. Thus, the results support the hypothesis that introvert and extrovert adolescents differ significantly from each other on depression level. |
Pages: 368-373 The present study was designed to examine the relationship of wisdom with intelligence, personality and perceived family environment among college students For the realization of the research objective, 153 college students were selected from various colleges of Karnal, Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts of Haryana, and were tested on 3D-wisdom scale, Raven's Progressive Matrics Test, Hindi Version of Hundal General Mental Ability Test and NEO-FFI. Obtained data were analyzed by using Descriptive Statistics, Pearson's Correlations and Factor Analysis. Results revealed wisdom to have significant positive relationship with crystallized intelligence, emotional stability, openness to new experiences conscientiousness, intellectual-cultural orientation, and organization. |
Pages: 374-376 In the present investigation, the researcher has made an attempt to study the trends of dropout rate after the implementation of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme in the Govt. schools of UT Chandigarh at the elementary level. To achieve the laid down objectives, the present study was based on the primary and secondary data. The study was conducted in a total of 27 Government schools of UT Chandigarh at elementary Level. The sample comprised of 27 schools, selected randomly. A proforma was prepared to collect factual information regarding the implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan schemes, from the session 2006-07 to the session 2016-17. The data was converted into tabular form year-wise, class-wise and objective-wise and analyzed. |
Pages: 377-380 Present was designed to explore the relationship between dimensions of creativity and intellectual styles. For this, Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking With Pictures (Torrance, 1966) and Thinking Styles Inventory (Sternberg & Wagner, 1992) were administered on 250 female students of 11th and 12th grades with age ranging from 16 to 20 years. Four scores of creativity and thirteen of intellectual styles scored following the rules prescribed in respective manuals. Obtained data was analyzed by applying Descriptive Statistics (Mean, SD, SK, KU) and Pearson's correlation. Descriptive statistics reveal the normalcy of data distribution. Coefficients of correlations depicted that Fluency has positive correlations with legislative, executive, judicial, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic, anarchic, local and conservative styles. Flexibility has marked significant positive association with legislative, executive, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic, anarchic, local, and conservative styles. Originality has correlated positively with legislative, executive, judicial hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negatively with oligarchic, anarchic, local, and conservative styles. Elaboration has marked positive association with legislative, executive, judicial, monarchic, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic and anarchic styles. In conclusion, both the measures of creativity and intellectual styles share variance with each other. Review of literature also clearly supports the findings of present study. |
Pages: 381-384 The cultivation of gratitude has a long history in Eastern spiritual traditions, particularly Buddhism. In the Mangala Sutta, Gautam Buddha declared gratitude to be one of the highest blessings and a sign of ethical and spiritual progress in human beings. Modern research has also suggested that feelings of gratitude may be beneficial to one’s well being. However, much of this research has taken place in Western settings. This study was an attempt to experimentally assess the efficacy of a gratitude-based exercise for increasing the subjective well-being of Indian college going females (n= 204). The participants were randomly divided into three groups. The ‘gratitude group’ was asked to list five things they felt grateful about, everyday for one week. The ‘hassles group’ had to list five things that they felt bothered about while the ‘control group’ had to write five things they did during the day. The impact of engaging in these exercises was statistically assessed by comparing the pre-intervention and post-intervention means of each group on three variables constituting subjective well-being namely negative affect, positive affect and life satisfaction. It was found that the gratitude group experienced beneficial outcomes for all three variables. The hassles and control groups did not experience such benefits. The results indicate that this intervention provides a cost and resource effective means for increasing feelings of well-being among young women. |
Pages: 385-387 Solid waste management is a system that covers all processes from collection to disposal for all types of refuse. It is essential but often neglected part of urban environment management of towns. It includes waste generated from residential, commercial, institutional, hospital, construction site, demolition process and municipal services. Improper solid waste management gives rise to problems of health, sanitation and environmental degradation which can affect the sustainability of life in the town. This is indeed a matter of serious concern. The objective of this paper is to highlight the status of solid waste management practices in Narnaul town. A survey of 23 wards has been done to understand the prevailing solid waste management mechanism. The total of 26 ton of solid waste is generated everyday within the administration jurisdiction of Narnaul Municipal Council. 8 ton domestic solid waste 14 ton non-domestic solid waste is generated per day in Narnaul town. Scientific and systematic storage of waste at source is not in practice. |
Pages: 388-392 In present day society individuals linger by being uncertain about the usefulness of internet gaming which created the emergency to study that in what extend its uses remain beneficial for the mankind. The study aims at examining how excessive internet gaming behavior influences the development of anxiety and depression among college students. Data were collected from undergraduate college students (100 males &100 females with 18-22 years of age) of Kolkata city. Anxiety, depression and internet gaming use were assessed with the help of Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), and Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGD-20 Test). Results indicated that difference between two genders (boys vs girls) and two groups (high & low gamers) were significant in case of both anxiety and depression but their interaction (gender*group) was significant only in case of anxiety. Excessive internet gaming exerts harmful effect in psychological functioning as anxiety and depression were higher among high gamers. Females were more affected than males. |