The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Sweta Sharadkumar Chauhan

During Examination sports and entrance tests Peer Pressure is very much common. It is experienced in human relations too. So how can we cope with everything? The Art of Living YES+(The Youth Empowerment Seminar) programme is a life skills programme. It is composed of three modules: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind and Healthy Lifestyle. The Art of Living YES+ Programme is based on- Sudarshan Kriya, Meditation and breathing techniques, Techniques for mental focus and concentration, Techniques for overcoming fear and anxiety, Interactive process, team games, Food awareness, Group discussions, Learning through fun and games, service to others, confidence building and leadership. The researcher developed a rating scale for measuring YES+ programme. Post test only experimental group design was used in this research. The students of IRMA (Institute of Rural Management), Anand made the population for the study. For content analysis X2 was found out and interpretation is derived from the result. College students have shown positive tendency about YES+ programme. It is suggested that such progammes can be implemented on various groups at colleges and in higher education to enhance the positive life skills and better living and life style.

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Authors: Aarti N Nagpal , Dr. Sr. Christine Fernandes

The value of sex education for teenagers has been emphasized by social activists, psychologists and social scientists so that they may not become a victim of Sexually Transmitted Diseases such as HIV/AIDS, sexuality related complications and to eradicate social evils such as eve-teasing, sexual harassment and also to help the young people gain knowledge on the ability to protect themselves from sexual exploitation and threats. The purpose of this study is to measure the attitude of parents of teenagers aged 13-19 years towards sex education. Thirty parents of teenagers from the metropolitan city of Hyderabad were included in the sample. Purposive sampling method was used for this research. Attitude Scale towards Sex Education developed by Dr. Usha Mishra (2008) was used to measure the attitude of parents of teenagers. The results show that the parents of today’s teenagers have a positive or a high attitude towards sex education thus supporting the hypothesis and contradicting the earlier studies. The mean difference between fathers and mothers is not noted to be very high and the t-ratio obtained is 0.448 which is not statistically significant. This shows that there is not much of gender variation in the attitude towards sex education. Since the present study contradicts the earlier studies, it comes out with a proposal stating that more studies could be established on a wider level to support the change in attitude of parents towards sex education over decades. Also, the government could make use of the change in parents’ attitudes and come up with policies for involving formal Sex Education in the educational institutions.

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Authors: Nancy Agrawal , Prof. Mahmood S. Khan

Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Education must also guide one for fast, firm and successful thinking. Educational achievement is associated with many life outcomes, including income, occupation and many health and way of life variables. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and logically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the stage in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. Vaughan (2002) states that Working as a psychotherapist, my thought is that spiritual intelligence opens the heart, illuminates the mind, and inspires the soul, connecting the individual human psyche to the underlying ground of being. Spiritual intelligence can be developed with practice and can help a person discriminate actuality from illusion.In this situation an attempt was made to ascertain therole of education on spiritual intelligence between science and arts undergraduate students. For this purpose we selected 80 students randomly from the faculty of science and faculty of arts in A.M.U. to meet the objectives and have a better idea and analysis to understand the student’s behaviour. We applied the spiritual intelligence self-report inventory developed by D. King in 2008. We analyseddata with the help of t- test. The obtained results revealed that the students of arts are more spiritual as compared to students of science. We have found the insignificant difference between both the groups on holy intelligence level.

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Authors: Md. Hassan Jafri1

Popularity and wide usage of Facebook has led some to its excessive use leading to the Facebook addiction which may results into several negative consequences. The present study aimed to investigate influence of Facebook addict on their emotional experiences (negative and positive emotions). The study also aimed to ascertain the influence of Facebook addicts on their coping strategies to deal with their stress. Survey was undertaken from 35 undergraduate students, taken randomly from commerce and business management of a college of Royal university of Bhutan, Bhutan. Results from regression analysis revealed that addicts experience negative emotions more than positive emotion. Similarly addicts adopted maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the stresses. The research has significant value for students, parents and educational institutions to understand negative side of excess use of Facebook and according control their usage behaviour.

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Authors: Dr. Shikha Sharma

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Women's health involves their emotional, social and physical well-being and is determined by the social, political and economic context of their lives, as well as by biology. Health and performance are interdependent to each other. Good health is the foundation of performance. A healthy person will do better in every aspect of life, such as professional life, family life, marital life and sexual life etc. Albeit everyone talks of women improvement today but the question is “Do we really feel concern about women and women’s health?” Undoubtedly women have more pressure of work whether they are working or non-working, women have to face more problems due to various health problems such as physical, mental, family and sexual health. Job conditions and multiple roles play an important part for women’s health at midlife, Collins (2002).

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Authors: Mina Khatibi , Dr. Farideh Yousefi

One of life's great challenges is successfully regulating emotions (Gross, 2002). The topic of emotion regulation has been of interest since Freud (1923) began to examine the relationship between the control of affective impulses and psychic health ( Krohne et al., 2002) . The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. Emotion regulation is defined and distinguished from coping, mood regulation, defense, and affect regulation (Gross, 1998). Many studies have been conducted in the field of cognition and emotion; e.g., emotion regulation: Past, present, future (Gross, 1999), the cognitive regulation of emotions: The role of success versus failure experience and coping dispositions (Krohne et al., 2002), the cognitive control of emotion (Ochsner and Gross, 2005), relationships between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: A comparative study of five specific samples, (Garnefski and Kraaij, 2002), incorporating emotion regulation into conceptualizations and treatments of anxiety and mood disorders (Campbell-Sills et al., 2007), healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and life span development (John and Gross, 2004), emotion regulation in adulthood: Timing is everything (Gross, 2001 ),emotional states, attention, and working memory. Emotion regulation in depression: Relation to cognitive inhibition (Joormann and Gotlib, 2010), individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being (Gross and John, 2003), mindfulness and emotion regulation: The development and initial validation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R)(Laurenceau, 2007), regulation of distress and negative emotions: A developmental view (Kopp, 1989), basic emotions, relations among emotions, and emotion-cognition relations (Izard, 1992), emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation in anxious children, (Carthy, 2010), cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: differences between males and females (Garnefski et al., 2004), cognitive emotion regulation in the prediction of depression, anxiety, stress, and anger (Martin and Dahlen, 2005), academic emotions in students' self-regulated learning and achievement: A program of qualitative and quantitative research ( Pekrun et el., 2002), emotion regulation and mental health (Gross and Muñoz, 1995), specificity of cognitive emotion regulation strategies:

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Authors: Shwetha. B. C1

Resilience has been defined as “the ability of an individual to function competently in the face of adversity or stress.”(Kirby and Fraser, 1997). Life Skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individual to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life – WHO. Emotional Maturity is the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. Life skills training is used to help adolescents not only acquire knowledge, but also to develop relevant skills to enable them to reduce the risk of behaviors and negative consequences (Botvin & Griffin, 2004).This skills training is one of the best alternative strategies for the proper practice in essential abilities for managing adolescent life, particularly decision-making and critical thinking ability by considering information and behavior consequences, and ability in recognition of strong feelings in one’s self and others to modulate one’s own behavioral response, resolve disagreements, and follow rules in a productive and healthy manner (WHO,2003). The present study focuses on the impact of Life Skill Training Program on Emotional Maturity and Stress Resilience among adolescents. To examine the same the sample of 30 adolescents were given the Life Skill Training and 30 adolescents didn’t receive any Life Skill Training and both the groups were administered with Emotional Maturity Scale and The Resilience Scale. The research findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the experimental and control group; experimental group which received Life Skill Training had high Emotional Maturity and high stress resilience compared to untrained group.

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Authors: Saranya T.S , Sibnath Deb2

Paniya tribes are the vast majority tribal group of Kerala and are found mainly in the northern districts of the state. They are economically backward with low literacy rate (49.5%) comparing to the states average of 93.9%. Adolescents are the future and hope of this community because most of them are first generation learners. This study aims to understand the resilience capacity and support function of the adolescents in association with demographical variables. Resilience scale Support Function scale and Background information scale were used to obtain the information. To achieve the purpose of the study the researcher selected 108 subjects using multi-stage sampling method and collected data. The researcher found that resilience capacity and support function are positively related to each other (p<.01) and both resilience capacity and support function are found higher among females (p<.01). The study also revealed that school environment and educational status acts as protective factors for resilience capacity and support function(p<.01).The findings of the study will be useful for NGOs and governmental organization for policy implementation in the area.

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Authors: Dr. Akanksha Srivastava1

The aim of the present investigation was to study the effect of Facebook uses on life satisfaction and subjective happiness of college students. 150 {75 male and 75 female} college students age ranged 16-30 from Lucknow city of Uttar-Pradesh were selected through purposive sampling technique. In the present study only those students were participated who are using Facebook. Intensity of Facebook Usage, life satisfaction scale and subjective happiness scale were emailed to all participants. Online information was received by the researcher. Results showed that Females scored highest on both scales, recording higher levels of Facebook usage and happiness than their male counterparts. Older age group students were found to be more intense Facebook users, more satisfied with their lives and happiest than younger age group students. Positive and significant correlation was observed between Facebook usage, life satisfaction and happiness of older age group college students. The bivariate correlations between the participants groups, happiness and life satisfaction were positive. The study was found to be very useful for college students.

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Authors: Maryam Farhang1, Dr. H. Sam SanandaRaj2

The present study has been carried out with the aim of investigating the college students mental health status (and its subscales likewise, attitude toward the self, self-actualization, integration, autonomy, perception of reality, environmental mastery), self-esteem, and subjective well-being based on their parents occupation. The sample of the study consisted of 750 college students studying in different college of Visakhapatnam city (India), selected through stratified sampling method. In order to collect data, the Mental Health status, (M.H.S. Scale) by P. Gireesan & Sananda Raj,(1988), Self-Esteem Inventory by Thomas, & Sananda Raj, and Subjective Well-Being Inventory, by Suhany, B, T &Sananda Raj, (2002) and personal information schedule, were used. The data were analyzed using One way ANOVA as well as Duncan test. The result indicated that College students, whose; their father’s Occupation comes in Semi professional category had higher level of mental health, self-actualization, integration, perception of reality, and environmental mastery than others. College students, whose; their father’s Occupation comes in High professional category had higher level of subjective well-being than others. College students, whose; their Mother’s Occupation comes in semi professional category had more mental health, self-actualization, perception of reality, than others. College students, whose; their Mother’s Occupation comes in High professional category had more integration, and environmental mastery than others.