The International Journal of Indian Psychology

06 to 14

Authors: Dr. S. M. Makvana*

Human being among living begins, has highest capacities to adapt to new situation. Man as a social animal not only adapts to physical demands but also adjusts to social pressure in society. Psychologists have interpreted adjustment from two important points of views. One, adjustment and the second lays emphasis on process by which an individual adjust in external environment. Married people need to adjust to each other, in order to live a happy life. Various factors contribute to the adjustment of the Spouses. The beliefs and religiosity level of each partner has its influence on the Marriage.

34 to 51

Authors: Ankit Patel

The present study deals with the mental health of AIDS patients. Therefore it is essential that we should have some clear ideas about the scientific nature of AIDS and mental health. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). During the initial infection, a person may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. This is typically followed by a prolonged period without symptoms. As the illness progresses, it interferes more and more with the immune system, making the person much more likely to get infections, including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not usually affect people who have working immune systems. HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse (including anal and even oral sex), contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. Some bodily fluids, such as saliva and tears, do not transmit HIV. Prevention of HIV infection, primarily through safe sex and needle-exchange programs, is a key strategy to control the spread of the disease. There is no cure or vaccine; however, antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and may lead to a near-normal life expectancy. While antiretroviral treatment reduces the risk of death and complications from the disease, these medications are expensive and may be associated with side effects.

61 to 72

Authors: Garima Gupta*, Neha Nafis**

The present study intends to examine marital adjustment and psychological well-being among working and non-working women. The study was carried out on a purposive sample of 40 participants. Marital adjustment inventory and Ruff’s Medium Form of Psychological Well-Being Scale was administered on forty working and non-working female participants. Results revealed that working and non-working women did not differ from each other on marital adjustment as well as on psychological well-being but on few dimensions of psychological wellbeing. The findings have been discussed in the light of relevant research evidences.

78 to 83

Authors: Ruhanshi Mathur*

The main aim of the study was to find out whether the locus of control of the individuals, of college going age, has any effect on their academic performances or not. The objective was to conduct a comparative study of the academic achievement and locus of control of college students. The researcher tried to gather a fair response from the total of 60 subjects between the age group of 18-21. The subjects were chosen randomly within the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. This study did not include effect of gender on the responses, as the locus of control is more of a cognitive drive which is independent from the gender specific ideology of the subjects. The research instruments used were Locus of control inventory (which reflects the way in which students feel about what happens in their academic institutions) and Life experience inventory (which reflects the experiences of life). The subjects were made to fill both the questionnaires and then the items were scored and results were analyzed. The scores were given to the subjects’ response based on the norms provided. Thereby each questionnaire response was scored and subjects were divided into two groups, namely, High on Internality (I) and Low on Internality (E). Further to this, the subjects were made to supply their overall academic performance grade, which was further analysed for each of the two groups. The two groups showed a clear indication that the group with high internality had a better Mean of their overall performance grade,7.40, whereas the latter showed a weak overall performance grade of 5.93. Also, the two groups showed a well correlation of the type of locus of control as per the locus of control inventory and life experience inventory (0.97), depicting a true locus of control that the subjects follow as per their experiences of life and the way they perceive about their academia in the college. The Mean and Standard deviation of the scores of the two groups were 30,19 and 5,6 respectively. Whereas the Life experience inventory showed a Mean of 17 and 10. Recommendations: Increase the sample size as that proved to be a limitation to this study. Further more tests could prove a better result for a larger sample size. A study across ages and socio-economic group is also possible and might give different results.

91 to 96

Authors: Mohit M. Pandya*, Dr. D. J. Bhatt**

The purpose of present study was to find out correlation between the youths‟ adjustment and their health care awareness. The said sample was 240 both males and females in equal numbers was selected through random sampling. Adjustment Inventory & Health Care Awareness Inventory are tailor-made instruments, having sufficient reliability and validity. For the purpose of analysis, The Karl-Pearans „r‟ technique was used. Present study reveals the result that there is significant positive correlation between the youths‟ Adjustment and their Health Care Awareness. The authors suggest that there is a need to explore the rural and the urban youths‟ correlation in the line of above study.

102 to 107

Authors: Ramesh O. Prajapati*

Aim of the research is to find out the depression among B.ed College students, So, investigator selected two groups one is male and other is female, both groups have 120 students. In each group has 60 male and other one groups has 60 female students. Data were collected from different collages of v.v.nagar city. Scale was use for data collection is personal datasheet and depression scale developed by A.T. Back (1967), 2x2 factorial design was used and data were analysis by ANOVA test. Result show, There is significant difference between the depression among male and female B.ed college student. There is significant difference between the depression among urban and rural B.ed college student. There is significant difference between the effect of interaction on depression among type of sex and type of area of B.ed college student.

125 to 132

Authors: Mr. Pravin A Baviskar*, Dr. N. D. Mundada**,

The present study was conducted to see the effect of violent t.v.serial on aggression level among the secondary school going students of Jalgaon city. Buss and Perrys Aggression Questionnaire was used to measure the aggression level of the adolescent. For this study a sample of 140 students of age range 14-16 years studying in 9th and 10th classes were selected from different school of Jalgaon city.

138 to 140

Authors: Kachchhi Parvati K*.

The main purpose was to find out the main difference between working and non working women in adjustment problem. The total sample consisted 200 women in working non working women. The research tool for Bell‟s adjustment inventory. Here „t„ test was applied to check the significance of difference in adjustment problem. The study revealed the working women and non working women were adjustment well especially from „social, emotional and Health adjustment. The results showing that working women are more adjustment in terms of Health, Social and Emotional adjustment than non working women.

147 to 160

Authors: Dr.Neeta Sinha*

Consistent increase in the rate of psychosomatic and mental diseases and the feeling of dissatisfaction with life in general among majority of people in present day world very well reflects the ill consequences for high psychosocial stress being experienced by the present generation. In the recent years while on one hand the quality of life has increased on the other hand the stresses involved too have gone up. Stress thus becomes inevitable in life, and with increasing problems, aspirations and uncertainties associated with socio-economic, political and cultural upheavals, it is only likely to increase. Of late we have seen that there has been a movement towards greater accountability and transparency in higher education and therefore consideration of student issues becomes imminent. Today, every university administrator is aware of the challenges that higher education faces. Some of the traditional challenges are financial and managerial while the other contemporary challenges are how to strike a balance between knowledge and information. One of the most challenging aspects for current higher education institutes thus becomes proliferation of roles that members have to undertake during their everyday educational practice. Stress has become an everyday word being used in the modern day world, yet remarkably few people use the term stress in a proper manner or even bother to attempt for a clear cut definition of the term stress. In Psychology stress refers to a „state of organism resulting from some interaction with the environment.‟ The term stress has been originally derived from Latin, where it indicates hardship, strain, adversity or afflictions. Various terms have been used synonymously with stress, anxiety, frustrations, conflicts, tension, pressure and strain.

161 to 164

Authors: Alpesh B. Kotar*

The main purpose of this research was to find out the main difference between married and unmarried women‟s mental health. The total sample consists of 60 women (30 married and 30 unmarried women). Sample was taken from Bhavnagar city. Scale was use for data collection is mental health scale by Dr. A. K. Shreevastav and Dr. Jagdish (1983). Data was analyzed by „t‟ test. Result show, there is significant difference between the married and unmarried women.