The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Mina Khatibi, Razieh Sheikholeslami

In ecology, a niche is a term with a variety of meanings related to the behavior of a species living under specific environmental conditions. The ecological niche describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors. The ecological niche concept expresses the relationship of an individual or a population to all aspects of its environment. Studies on the relationship between human population and environmental resources have employed niche concept. Ecological niche comprehends all conditions necessary for an organism to exist.

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Authors: Tarlika L. Zalavadia, Harsukh G. Bhut

The study was designed to investigate the impact of certain socio personal variables on the College Student Emotional Maturity of Rajkot City. The sample consisted of 240 College Student selected randomly from Rajkot City. Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) of Romapal (1988) was used. Data were analysis by ‘t’ test. Results revealed that there exists a No significant difference was found between the College Student gender, Type of family, Family members and Education faculty their Emotional Maturity.

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Authors: Shelly Bhagat

Our Environment is growing and enriching us on the cost of its own well being. The matter of concern of environmental psychology is so much important in today’s era to save the future psychological/mental as well as physical health. The core idea of learning the cause of loneliness due to the physical changes of environment can hence change the foresightedness for the field of psychology. The few basic and the important factors which are helpful in understanding the overall health of the environment and its contribution in the loneliness of human beings are discussed in this study.

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Authors: Dr. Pranati Satapathy

The linguistic and cognitive competence of 120 children belonging to three different upper primary school (Oriya medium, English medium and Hindi medium), and equal to 40 each was studied. The results indicated that while the system of schooling was not significantly noticeable in developing cognitive and academic competence. The linguistic competence was found to be significant indicating that in and around the age 10+ and 12+ years the linguistic competence is markedly identified. Whereas the conceptual ability and other related variables like curiosity, learning and piagetian concepts are at par with the system of schooling.

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Authors: Nelofar Bashir, Humera Shafi, Usmat Yousuf, Sakeena Parveen, Kulsum Akhter

The aim of the present research was to study spiritual well-being and depression among middle aged people. 100 middle aged persons were taken for the present study. The tools used were Spiritual wellbeing Scale (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982), Beck Depression Inventory-III (Beck, Steer and Brown, 1996). The result revealed that out of 100 middle aged people, 79% showed average level, and 21% showed high level of spiritual well being. Also it was found that out of the total sample 68% fall in the minimal level of depression, 16% fall in the mild level, 10% fall in the moderate level of depression and the remaining 6% of the sample fall in the severe level of depression. Further, results of the study revealed significant negative correlations of spiritual well being with depression among middle aged people. Furthermore results did not reveal any significant differences for spiritual well-being and depression among middle aged people as far as their gender is concerned.

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Authors: Dr. Bani Narula

This paper provides an analysis of meditation as a new way of managing stress, tension and crisis. Contemporary psychology of mediation has gained worldwide significance and acceptance to seek solace and solutions for modern problems. Originally mediation was meant to help deepen understanding of the mystical and sacred forces of life. But, these days, it is commonly used for relaxation and stress reduction. Meditation is a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization or attention itself in order to increase awareness of the present moment and enhance personal and spiritual growth. It is an altered state of consciousness or altered state of mind, which is a temporary change in one’s normal mental state without being considered unconscious. Meditation provides a way for personal empowerment to become more in control of one’s thinking, emotions and behaviour. Therefore, as per the perspective of modern psychology, meditative practices hold utmost significance in augmenting the understanding of mind-body relationship.

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Authors: Mahesh M M, Dr. Johnson Alex

42 years old male patient referred from neurology department, working as a teacher, educated up to MSc, premorbidly anxious personality, family history mental illness (first degree relatives), comes from MSES with presenting complaints of difficulty in writing or copying since seven years. Disability progressed and he was unable to write even a few words legibly and could not hold object which leads to anxiety and dependency. When the patient was examined at Neurology OPD, find out that he has normal sensory and motor nerve functions. The present treatment involved the use of Bahaviour therapy. The findings in this case is very encouraging and studies with large sample sizes can be considered for further conclusive evidence on the treatment of writer’s cramp.

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Authors: M. G. Sharma, Vandana Sharma

The present study aimed at ascertaining the effect of psychoastrotherapy (psychotherapy and astrotherapy) on phobic patients. Hundred (100) phobic patients were consisted for this study out of these 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at S. I. Mental & Physical Health Society (SIMPHS) Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range of13 to 25 years with a mean age of 15.27 years and their mean length of abnormal fear was 3.5 years. Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) was administered to ascertain mental health on six selected variables viz: free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicate that the characteristics associated with non-treated phobic patients were free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, depression and hysteria and the characteristics associated with treated phobic patients is somatization. Fifty patients were treated for six months and they were requested to attend centre for six months of follow-up. After six months of follow-up only thirty six patients were reported that they did not feel any kind of phobic symptoms.

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Authors: Dr. Mahesh Kumar Muchhal, Arun Kumar

“The destiny of India is being shaped in her classroom” has been pointed out by the education Commission (1964-66), and to that point it may be safely added that the destiny of these classrooms is being shaped by the teachers. Teacher is a flywheel of the whole educational machine. Modern school plans the best equipments, the newest of the new media and the most progressive methods; they will remain dead fossils unless there is the right use of teacher’s breath, life and spirit into them. Hence, the teacher occupies a pivotal position in all schemes of educational reconstruction.

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Authors: Muddanagouda Patil

Stress is a part of modern life, with increasing complexity of life, stress is likely to increase. Stress is built in the concept of role, which is conceived as the position a person occupies in a system. Women’s in modern global world have to play a dual role as housewife and career builder. The present investigation was conducted to examine the stress among the working and non workingwomen’s. It was hypothesized that the working women’s has more stress than the non- working women’s. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 90 women’s were taken. From which working women’s (N= 45) and non workingwomen’s (N= 45). To measure the stress, the stress scale developed by DR. M. Singh (2002) was administrated individually to the subjects. The data were subjected to ‘t’ analysis and the major findings of the study reveals that the working women’s has more stress than the non workingwomen’s.

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Authors: Dr. R. Sankar, Wani M. Amin

This research paper is an attempt to study the level of anxiety, stress and depression among flood affected people in Kashmir valley. This study is based on sample of 100 subjects divided into two equal groups (male and female) selected through sample random sampling. The level of anxiety, stress and depression were measured by anxiety, depression and stress scale (ADSS-BSPSA) developed by Pallavi Bhatnagar et al., Department of Psychology Lucknow University. Mean, S.D, SED and t-test were applied for data analysis. The results reveal that the significant difference was found between the male and female subjects in respect to anxiety, stress and depression scores. Significant difference was found at 0.05 and 0.01 levels respectively.

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Authors: Sabrina Shajeen Alam, Dilruba

The study focuses on exploring the job satisfaction and job stress of bank employees. The sample of the study comprised of respondents selected purposively. Job Satisfaction Scale (Abdul Khaleque, 1995) and Occupation Stress Index (Md. Abdul Latif and Sabina Sultana) were used for data collection. Results revealed that two-third of the participants are satisfied with their jobs and almost one-third of the bank employees have low job stress. The result also revealed that there is no significant correlation between job stress and job satisfaction.

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Authors: Jaya Bharti

Background: The present study aims to investigate the anxiety level of sports and non-sports students during board exam. It also aimed to find out the difference of anxiety among up board students on the basis of gender and the difference of anxiety among up board students on the basis of socio-economic status. These were studied with respect to different demographic variables like school type, socio-economic background, gender and academic stream. Methods: In this study, Sample included 420 randomly selected students i.e. 210 boys and 210 girls of U.P boards from various schools of Education at Uttar Pradesh. Subjects were assessed using Socio-demographic sheet and Anxiety Scale by Sinha & Sinha (1955). Result: The results of the study revealed considerable anxiety in boys than girls (p<0.01). Students from Hindi medium schools were more anxious than students from English medium schools (p<0.01). Students belonging to the middle class (middle socio-economic group) suffered more anxiety than those from both high and low socio-economic groups (p<0.01). Conclusion: conclusion is that Parent child relationship, child and teacher relationship and parent and teacher relationship and support decrease the level of anxiety. Parents and teacher emotional support drastically change the statics of anxiety in students. Parents and teacher use anxiety prevention efforts and gave lots of confidence to the child because these steps only weapon who broke the anxiety stone.

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Authors: Ms. Alvita de Souza, Dr. Shanmukh V. Kamble

The present study was designed to: (a) determine whether there is empirical support for a relationship between Gratitude and Spirituality in Quality of Life, (b) provide an estimate of the strength of this relationship, and (c) examine whether Spirituality and Gratitude is a predictor of quality of life. Stage 1 and Stage 2 Cancer patients were employed for this study. The sample for the study consisted of 397 Cancer patients aged between 36 to 67 years. The Spirituality Scale, Gratitude Scale and the Quality of Life for Adult Cancer Survivors were administered on the participants. Results supported previous research that Spirituality and Gratitude were positively correlated to Quality of life. It was also was a significant predictor in Quality of Life in Cancer Patients. The implication of this study is that Spirituality and Gratitude as a paradigm can be used to improve the Quality of life particularly for those who report very poor health while suffering from Cancer or are at the end of their life with disease

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Authors: Dr. T. Gopi, Dr. K. Saidireddy

In formal education teacher has a very important place in improvement of education. Teachers’ role in society, in general and in higher education in particular has been changing with time but the importance of this position remains the same. The teacher is the pre-requisite of the success of all educational programmes. He/ She must have the ability to get satisfaction from his/her job. All educational programmes should inculcate good qualities in teacher so that he/she is in the best position to impart quality education to students. Development of the country requires a high rate of production and fullest possible utilization of both human as well as material resources. Nowadays, there is, however, a general feeling that the teachers do not have satisfaction in their job. There seems to be growing discontentment towards their job as a result of which standard of education is falling. Teachers are dissatisfied in spite of different plans and programs, which have been implemented to improve their job. Higher academic and professional qualification of the teachers, no doubt, can raise the standard of education as well as that of nation, but dissatisfied teachers, in spite of having a good and sound academic career and professional training, will do much harm than good because they will neither work whole heartedly nor will they try to contribute anything towards higher education. This paper is devoted to tracing out satisfaction and dissatisfaction of contractual teacher in Telangana aria.

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Authors: Ms. Shefeena Jacob, Dr. Milu Maria Anto

The present study is an attempt to examine the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety and depression among adults. The rising prevalence of mental illness in today’s world is mainly due to stress, tension or negative life experiences in our day to day life. In this regard, the way in which one’s response to stress and negative life events may be more directly connected to mental health and psychopathology than the nature of stressful experience itself. A representative sample of 30 males and 30 females from Kottayam and Thrissur Districts of Kerala, of 20 – 40 years of age were selected. Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire was administered to find out the cognitive emotion regulation strategies that participants use in response to the experience of stressful events. The inventory of Beck Depression Inventory -11 was distributed to find out the different symptoms of depression and State – Trait Anxiety Test was used to measure their state and trait anxiety levels. The results of Student t- test showed that, both males and females show significant differences in certain cognitive emotion regulation dimensions like positive appraisal, putting into perspective and other – blame and in depressive symptoms and in one of the anxietal symptom called Tension. And Co–efficient Correlation revealed that, self blame, catastrophizing, rumination and other blame were related with high level of depression and anxiety and subscales like acceptance, positive appraisal and putting into perspective were related with low levels of depression and anxiety. So the study concluded that there is relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety and depression among adults. And also Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) has fit psychometric properties and could be used for clinical and investigative purposes.

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Authors: Karanam Mahaboobvali, Dr. S. Vijaya Vardhini

Social intelligence is the ability to compromise so as to understand and manage the people and engage in adaptive social situations. Though everyone needs intelligence in general and Social intelligence in particular. Especially it is essential for the Teachers to interact with the students effectively and for better understanding the students in the school environment. Hence in this context the investigators made an attempt to study the Social intelligence of Secondary school teachers. The objectives of the study are (i) to assess the social intelligence of Secondary school teachers and (ii) to find out the significance difference if any in the Social intelligence of Secondary school teachers due to variations in their Gender and Age. In this study 700 Secondary school teachers were selected from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh by employing simple random sampling technique. In this study the researchers analyzed the Social intelligence of Secondary school teachers in relation to their Gender and Age and found that, there is no significant difference between the male and female sample in their Social intelligence. On the other hand findings revealed that, there is significance difference among the age group of Secondary school teachers in their Social intelligence in general and Patience, Cooperativeness, Confidence, Sensitivity, Recognition of Social Environment, Tactfulness and Memory dimensions of Social intelligence in specific. Findings of the study are (i) both the male and female Secondary school teachers expressed equal level of Social intelligence and (ii) significant variation exists among the age groups of the Secondary school teachers towards the Social intelligence in Toto.

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Authors: Radha Vibhuti, Shradha Sakatkar

A present study investigated the correlation between experienced sexual harassment and anxiety, depression among working unmarried women. A purposive sample of 100 working unmarried women (25 to 35 years) was selected. Sample was collected from Mumbai. Sample involves unmarried women working in private sectors with same occupational background. The Sexual harassment experiences questionnaire, Beck depression inventory II, IPAT anxiety scale along with the personal data sheet were administered on the sample. The obtained score does not follow the normal distribution curve hence for correlation Spearman rho correlation method was used. Spearman non parametric test used to find out correlation between all variables. Result shows that there is positive correlation between experienced sexual harassment and depression. Also result shows that there is no correlation between experienced sexual harassment and anxiety.

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Authors: Pankaj Singh

This research is carried out on 60 students of IX Standard, Kendriya Vidalaya. Students were selected for the therapy on the basis of their SUD score. After taking math autobiography it was revealed that anxiety in mathematics for the students was developed due to various causes and the students were not dyslexic. Student’s average score in the recent mathematics exam was noted. Mathematics anxiety was assessed by using suri, monroe and koc’s (2012) short mathematics anxiety rating scale and their hemispheric dominance of the brain was measured by using Taggart and Torrance’s Human Information Processing Survey (1984). Students were treated with behaviour modification techniques and super brain yoga for six weeks. Interventions used are: I. Reduction of Rate of Breathing (Ganesan, 2012). II. Laughter Technique (Ganesan, 2008b). III. Develpoment of Alternate Emotional Responses to the Threatening Stimulus (Ganesan, 2008a). IV. Super Brain Yoga (Sui, 2005). The anxiety level and performance in mathematics exam was reassessed after six weeks. Results showed that mathematics anxiety and mathematics SUDs were significantly reduced, which improved the group performance in mathematics exam. This shows that behaviour modification techniques and super brain yoga are efficient in treating mathematics anxiety.

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Authors: Dr. Humera Shafi, Nelofar Bashir, Usmat Yousuf, Sakeena Parveen, Kulsum Akhter

The aim of the present study was to study spiritual well-being, life satisfaction and depression among middle aged people. 100 middle aged persons were taken for the present study. The Spiritual wellbeing Scale (SWB) developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982), Life Satisfaction Scale by Singh and Joseph and Beck Depression Inventory (2nd edition, 1996) were used to examine spiritual well-being, life satisfaction and depression respectively. It was revealed from the study that out of 100 middle aged people, 79% showed average level, and 21% showed high level of spiritual well being. In terms of life satisfaction, of the total sample 43% fall in average level and 57% fall in high level of life satisfaction. Also it was found that out of the total sample 68% fall in the minimal level of depression, 16% fall in the mild level, 10% fall in the moderate level of depression and the remaining 6% of the sample fall in the severe level of depression. Further, results of the study revealed significant negative correlations of spiritual well being and life satisfaction with depression among middle aged people. Also significant positive correlation of spiritual well being with life satisfaction was found among them. Furthermore results did not reveal any significant differences for spiritual well-being, life satisfaction and depression among middle aged people as far as their gender is concerned.

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Authors: Dr. Zoramhmangaihzuali Khiangte

This study was designed to investigate the psychological effect of insurgency in the Mizo, caused by the 20 years insurgency in Mizoram. To meet the objectives 200 Mizo participants were randomly selected, who had experienced that stressful situations at different levels of exposures to the stressful episodes. The study examines level of anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, somatic-concern and frustration of the insurgency effected people in Mizoram. It was found that those who had experience combat at first hand and fatal episode were the most vulnerable to psychological problems.

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Authors: Auditi Pramanik

Successful decision making involves our ability to understand the intensions, emotions and beliefs of other people. An important feature of decision making in a social setting concern the interaction of areas and Social cognition is an integral part of social psychology, which deals with the psychological mechanisms that mediate the individual’s responses to the social environment. Notable to social cognitive theories are the ideas which are applied and extended to many concepts, theories, models and paradigms from cognitive psychology in social context. This approach leads to remarkable progress in understanding of social scenario, people’s decisions and also offers insights into social issues. It helps to understand reactions of people in social context. Decision making is just one of the many areas in which social cognition has an important role. Decision making is a complex cognitive skill. Social cognition attempts to explain the broad social aspects of human experience, such as how decision making are influenced by the presence of others as well as the social situations in which they find themselves. This article presents a fundamental idea of social cognitive perspective of decision making process and factors that influence our decisions.

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Authors: Brian Pacheco, Dr. Shanmukh V. Kamble

The present study was designed to study the relationship between optimism, stress and coping with stress. The sample for the study comprised of 500 undergraduate students from colleges in Goa. Three measures—‘Life Orientation Test-Revised’ by Scheier & Carver (1994), ‘Perceived Stress Scale’ by Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein (1983), and ‘COPE’ by Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub (1989) were administered to participants. The findings of the research indicate a moderate negative relationship between optimism and stress. Optimism was found to be positively related to positive reinterpretation and growth, use of instrumental social support, active coping, acceptance, suppression of competing activities, and planning, and negatively related to mental disengagement, behavioural disengagement, focus on and venting of emotions, denial, and religious coping.

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Authors: Zainab Hamid, Shawkat Ahmad Shah

The present study is based on a systematic research review. Systematic review is to identify, evaluate, and summaries the findings of all relevant studies. Systematic reviews represent one of the most important forms of research evidences upon which clinicians, their patients and policy makers rely when making decisions. The review of literature is significant constituent of the research process and should be carried out in an organized manner. It involves a systematic identification, location and analysis of documents containing information related to the research problem. The reason of reviewing literature is to determine what has already done by the scientific community related to the research problem and to gain a notion regarding different aspects of the subject matter understudy. The major objective of the current study is to conduct a systematic review on Suicidal behavior in borderline Personality disorder among adolescents. To accomplish this objective, it was very important to collect the literature on; (A). Adolescents (B). Suicidal behavior. (C). Borderline personality disorder among adolescents.

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Authors: B. Sivakumar, N. Sridhar

The nature of career maturity is influenced by number of factors. The factors like the individuals family environment, mental ability, attitude, personality, economic, political and industrial polices etc… Considering the above facts, it will be relevant to study the career maturity and career competency of students. Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale & Competency Test) originally prepared by John O, Crites, Indian Adaptation by Mrs. Nirmala Gupta (1989). The reliability of the scale was found to be 0.82. Normative survey method was used for the present study. This method was used to assess the relationship between the XI standard Students career maturity and their career competency. A random sample of 200 XI Students studying in eight Higher Secondary Schools located in Erode district of Tamil Nadu was selected for the study. The investigator was used by t and F test.

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Authors: Yao René Yao, Saga Bernard Loba, Innocent Sylvestre Tombezoogo, Maryse Tchaboua

This study aims to show the influence of professional seniority and interpersonal relations on the performance of officials and agents of the state of Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform. It is based on a general assumption that there is a direct link between the two levels of study variables. The verification of this hypothesis required a quantitative approach. The sampling technique used is stratified probabilistic method. The survey was conducted among a sample of 103 permanent officials and agents of the state by means of a questionnaire. The counting of the data obtained and their statistical treatment using the chi-square test can isolate two results. On the one hand, the age does not determine the performance of state officials and agents of the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform. On the other hand, relationships have a significant influence on the performance of state officials and agents of that Ministry.

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Authors: Roya Sherafat, C. G. Venkatesha Murthy

The authors of this study have attempted to understand whether study habits affect academic achievement among secondary and senior secondary school students of Mysore. It is also attempted to know whether students at secondary level differ from senior secondary level on their study habits. The study was conducted on the sample of 625 students of Mysore City in India using stratified random sampling technique. Results indicated that the study habits facilitate higher academic achievement. Further, it was also found that secondary school students are significantly better than senior secondary students on study habits. The findings are analyzed and explained. Thus, study habit is found to be an important correlate of academic achievement.

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Authors: Swati Arora, Dr. Neelam Pandey

The purpose of the study is to determine the level of stress and different coping mechanisms used by parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder on pre-training and post-training tests. A researcher-developed training module was used to impart training to enhance the coping mechanisms used by parents to reduce their level of stress. A sample of 100parents of one child with Autism Spectrum Disorder was taken. They were administered on Parental Stress Index and Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales (F-COPES). The study utilized a quantitative approach, using Means, Standard Deviation and t –test in analysing data. Results reveal that parents of autistic children differed significantly on coping strategies and level of stress after the training.

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Authors: P. Ramakrishna, T. Rajini

Technology creation “INTERNET” is rapid and becoming a natural background aspect of everyone in their daily life. It is considered as a double edged weapon both giving information and even giving side effects as well which are mostly ignored. Is widely used in terms of information seeking, communication, following telegraph, telephone, radio, and television. Postal a forgotten concept after the emergence of Internet. It acts as a bridge reaching mass audience. Research has not formally identified addictive use of the Internet as a problematic behavior. This study is focusing on the impact of social skills of the individuals with internet usage. Methods: Demographic Data Sheet, Internet Addiction Test, Social Skills Test & Diagnostic Questionnaire. Data was analyzed. Conclusions: This study explores the continued prolonged usage of Internet and becoming addicted causing to the extent of impending misuse. Clinical and social inference of pathological Internet use and the future directions for research are discussed.

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Authors: Zahoor Ahmad Wagay, Dr. Arshid Hussain, Nasir Mohammad Bhat, Asiya Niyaz, Dr. Altaf Ahmad Malla, Masood Maqbool Mir

The objective of this study was to explore the emotional processing and adjustment patterns in patients with dissociative disorders. The Study was conducted at Institute of Medical Sciences and Neurosciences (IMHANS), Srinagar, India. Methods: The patients were chosen with the help of purposive sampling. A total of 30 participants (both male and female) were taken for the study. The Cross-sectional Research Design was used to collect the data. The tools used were Personal Information Schedule, Emotional Processing Scale (EPS 25) (Roger Baker 2000) and Bell’s Adjustment Inventory. Scoring of Emotional Processing Scale and Bell’s Adjustment inventory were done using the manual. Mean and Correlation was calculated by using SPSS. Results: It was found that dissociative disorder patients were plagued by intrusive and persistent emotions. In order to avoid those negative emotions, the patients tried to avoid experiencing them. Unprocessed emotional style was found to be most frequently used by the patients. Dissociative disorder patients were found to have poor adjustment in home, social, health as well as emotional areas of adjustment; with the maximum adjustment on emotional front. Further, it was found that there was no significant correlation between emotional processing and adjustment. However there was positive correlation between health and unregulated and unprocessed emotions. Conclusion: The findings of this exploratory study shed some light on the emotional processing and patterns of adjustment. This would help in the understanding and formulation of therapeutic cases and its implications on therapeutic interventions.

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Authors: Ritu, Madhu Anand

Parental Modernity is an important aspect for the psycho-social development of the child. The present study aims to study the effect of parental modernity on rejection sensitivity and self-esteem of adolescents and the relationship between rejection sensitivity and self-esteem. The research is carried out on a sample of 240 parents (including 120 fathers and 120 mothers) and their 120 children. For observing the impact of modernity of parents on their children, Individual Modernity Scale was used and administered on father and mother. Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire and Self-Esteem Inventory were used to measure the rejection sensitivity and self-esteem of children (age ranges from 14 to 19 years). The results suggest that parental modernity has an effect on the rejection sensitivity and personally perceived self of the self – esteem of adolescents. Furthermore, the rejection sensitivity has been found negatively associated with self-esteem.

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Authors: Sarla Devi, Dr. Jyotsana

The term identity is very important for adolescents. Adolescence is a time to sum up one’s past and current experience to arrive at a sense of identity, which in turn will guide one’s future plans. Adolescence has been considered as a period marked with identity crisis. Who am I all about? What am I going to do with my life? What is different about me? How can I make it on my own? These questions are usually considered in adolescence. Adolescents are keen for solutions to questions of identity. Identity has been called a “sense” an “attitude” a “resolution” and so on. The term social support means the person seeks help and support from friends, the term self esteem means the belief about their own self. Self-esteem is a socio psychological construct that assesses an individual’s attitudes and perceptions of self-worth. For this purpose a sample of 150 adolescents (75 boys and 75 girls) ranging in age from of 14 to18 years, were selected from various schools of Hisar, Haryana (India).They were administered (EOMEIS-2; Bennion and Adams, 1986), Perceived Social Support Assessment (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988), Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). The result has been discussed and shown in tables.

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Authors: Reeta Dar

This paper draws a parallel of Maslow hierarchy of needs with organ donation and transplantation and illustrates how these needs i.e., physiological, security, love and belongingness, self-esteem and self-actualization are inter-dependent, interlinked and entrenched in both living as well as deceased organ donation and transplantation. The paper illustrates the nuances of inter-linkages of need satisfaction of people and professionals in organ donation and transplantation. With some case studies, it draws attention to the plight of impoverished people and insecure women who are exploited or intimidated into donating organs for meeting their physiological and security needs in class stratified and gender insensitive social milieu respectively. It however, reveres the acts of donation of organs by relatives of deceased donors who allow donation of organs from Brain Stem Dead donors in India and illustrates how security needs of these families are met through the most powerful and altruistic act of organ donation that gives life to a number of people fighting end stage organ failures. The paper traces new expectations of love and belongingness in the form of organ donation and discusses role reversal of females even on Rakshabandan, a Hindu festival that celebrates love and affection between a sister and a brother. The sisters risk their lives and gift their organs to give a fresh lease of life to their brothers. Drawing attention to the forth level of needs, the paper discusses the plight of some vulnerable people who end up donating organs for gratification of their self-esteem needs in contrast to transplantation community who seek gratification of the same need through transplantation and influencing law making process in context of both living and deceased donation. It admires the gratification of self-actualization needs of a number of people who pledge to donate tissues, organs as well as the bodies after death/Brain Stem Death. India being a progressive country in organ donation and transplantation, this paper reveals how some professionals having satisfied all other basic needs, spend their own money and work tirelessly for pushing ahead the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) under the aegis of National Organ Transplant Programme(NOTP ) in the country.

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Authors: Ankit Patel

Melanie Klein was born on March 30, 1882, in Vienna, Austria. In 1903, she married Arthur Klein and relocated to Budapest. They had three children, born in 1904, 1907, and 1914. Klein's first personal experience in the field of psychoanalysis began when she sought treatment for herself after her mother died in 1914. Earlier in her youth, Klein’s siblings died: her brother died when she was 20, and her sister died when Klein was 4 years old. Klein was in treatment with Sandor Ferenczi between 1914 and 1917.

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Authors: M. Vinothkumar, Kousalya, Vindya. V. Rai

Academic procrastination is common among students and is due to various reasons. One of the reasons can be difficulty level of the task. To involve in the task and experience a deep sense of enjoyment, there should be balance between students’ skills and task challenges which is a characteristic of flow. The present study aimed to find out the moderating role of Hardiness and Self-efficacy in the relationship between Flow and Academic Procrastination on Academic Performance. For that 170 undergraduate students were taken from different streams using stratified random sampling method. Procrastination Scale, Dispositional Flow Scale, Hardiness Scale and Self-efficacy scales were used to measure the proposed variable in the model. Results showed a significant negative relation between academic performance and procrastination and a positive relation between Academic Performance, flow, and Self-efficacy. However, there seems no significant relationship between academic performance and hardiness. Structural equation modeling results reveal that procrastination has a significant direct effect on performance and that self-efficacy plays a moderating role in the relationship between flow and procrastination on academic performance, whereas hardiness is non-significant. Hence, it can be concluded from the SEM analysis result that model can be partially accepted. The implications of the study suggest designing the syllabus to match the abilities of all the students, training to elude procrastination and to increase a student’s level of self-efficacy.

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Authors: Akshara Goel, Dr. Roopali Sharma

The current study aimed at comparing the Quality of Life and Stress among Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers and General population. It was hypothesised that the Quality of Life will be poor in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers and their level of Stress will be high in comparison with General population. There would be a significant relationship in the Quality of Life and Stress in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers. The study proves that the Quality of Life is superior in General population than Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers, whereas the level of Stress is higher in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers. There is also a significant relationship between Quality of Life and Stress in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder caregivers.

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Authors: Anjali Gupta, Roopali Sharma

The present study focuses on determining the difference between adults with and without substance abuse in their attachment style, emotional maturity and self-esteem and also whether there is gender difference in them. For the study, sample comprised of 80 participants, i.e. 40 substance abusers and 40 substance non abusers in which 20 males and 20 females of 18 – 30 years from both the group were taken as sample. The primary reason of the study was that substance abuse is a persistent problem that many people suffer from and it is inexorably a growing issue that leads to social and economic influences. The results showed that there was significant difference among adults who abuse substances and who did not abuse substances. Participants who did not abuse substances showed secure attachment pattern, high emotional stability and high self-esteem as compared to participants who abuse substances. Also there was a significant gender difference in secure attachment pattern in non-abusers and in insecure attachment pattern in substance abusers. Females in comparison to males were more emotional stable in both the groups. No significant difference was seen in the self-esteem of males and females. The study provides an opportunity for further research across age and sub-divisions of the variables to uncover the possible differences or similarities that may be present.

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Authors: Dr. Veenaben Patel, Pro. Dinesh Patel

The literary interest is to be measured and an inventory is prepared for that. In the present inventory students point out whether they like the activity, like it strongly, dislike or strongly dislike. To construct and standardize literary interest inventory for higher secondary school students. To investigate the significant difference in the literary interest of the students between the sub-groups on gender, area, stream, type of school, standard and components of interest inventory. 3119 higher secondary school students is population. Hence survey method was suitable for the present study. The steps of the construction of the inventory are as follows. Items having t- value more than 1.96 and r-value more than 0.20 were selected. Thus, out of the 100 items, 80 items were selected in the final form of the inventory. The reliability of the inventory was established via test-retest method and split-half method. For establishing criterion validity The Teacher Criterion scale that depict various literary activities that can be carried out in higher secondary schools. The null hypotheses were tested using t-test and f-test. Significant difference is observed in the literary interest of the students with reference to gender. Girls are more inclined towards the literary interest than the boys. Rural students show more interest in literature than the urban students. Students of arts stream show more interest in literature than the students of commerce students and students of science stream show more interest in literature than the students of both streams. Significant difference is students with reference to type of school. Students of grant-in-aid schools show more interest in literature than the students of non-grant-in aid schools.