The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Sonal D. Parmar1

Everyone wants to be well and they also want healthy mind and body because healthy mind and body is the way to being healthy. To be healthy one’s should be positive toward their self-worth and doing yoga and meditation regularly. Meditation is a creative process that relaxes the taut nerves and muscles of our body and rejuvenates our dissipated mental and physical energies. Meditation makes you aware - that your inner attitude determines your happiness. Meditation has two important benefits:1) physical health 2) mental health. Today studies suggest that meditation can also help improve mental disorders such as the desire to self-harm. A study at the University of Melbourne showed that meditation helped improve the brain's activity to patterns associated with positive emotions. To experience the benefits of meditation, regular practice is necessary. It takes only a few minutes every day. Once imbibed into the daily routine, meditation becomes the best part of your day! Thus, meditation help us lot.

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Authors: J. Parameswari1

Developing and maintaining interpersonal relationship is important for success in life. Interpersonal relationship serves as a base for social support that plays a crucial role particularly in emotionally charged situations. It is also noted that interpersonal relationship enhances overall wellbeing of man. The present study is done to find out how students behave and what kind of behavior they expect from others. For this purpose, FIRO – B questionnaire developed by Schultz (1958) was used with a sample of 200 college students who were selected through stratified random sampling method from two colleges in Salem city. The strata used in this study are gender, discipline and order of birth. The collected data were analyzed using t-test that revealed significant gender difference in expressed inclusion and wanted control dimensions of interpersonal relationship. Further, arts discipline students significantly differed from science discipline students in wanted control. There was a significant difference in expressed inclusion and wanted affection based on order of birth of the students.

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Authors: Rizwan Hassan Bhat1, Dr. Syed Ahmad Shah2

This study was conducted to evaluate the mental health status of Hostlers and Non- Hostlers in relation to their academic achievement.. Sample random sampling method was used in this study to obtain applicable and clear-cut information. The sample of the study includes 160 students selected by sample random sampling from the Aligarh Muslim university .The mental health was measured by means of the Mental Health inventory (MHI),developed by jadish and srivastav,1995.The participants „previous two years academic achievement scores were used for assessing their academic achievement. The first finding of the study showed that academic achievement appeared as a significant predictor of mental health among hostlers .It means that there is a significant positive correlation „R‟= .931 between academic achievement and mental health among hostlers ,The second finding also showed that academic achievement appeared as a significant predictor of mental health among non- hostlers, It means that there is a significant positive correlation „R‟=.491 between academic achievement and mental health among non-hostlers. The results also reveal that hostlers showed significantly better academic achievement and mental health when compared with non- hostlers. For the analysis of the obtained data, simple linear regression analysis and t-test was used.

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Authors: Mohammad Ashraf Malik1

Background: In the Muslim world Madrasa is the main source of education. Throughout the world Madrasas are imparting education to Muslim students. Due to lack of modern education and Urdu medium system in the Madrasa, the students enrolled in these Madrasa could not compete with the other students. So, they face lot of problems in making their psychological and social adjustment. They get alienated from themselves and their society because their degree‟s are not recognized anywhere. This creates lot of difficulties in getting jobs. Objective: The main objective of paper is to assess the level of alienation among male and female madrasa students. Method: The present study was conducted on the sample of 120 male and female Madrasa students. The data was collected from the Kashmir (India). For the purpose of data collection from different Madrasa students, alienation scale developed by Kureshi and Dutt (1979) was administered on subjects. The subjects were randomly selected. For the result purposes Mean, S.D. and t -test were calculated. Results: The results showed that both male and female madrasa students are experience the level of alienation. However, on the basis of mean score male students shows high mean score (M=48.98) as compared to female students (M=44.98).While as no siginificant difference were found in their alienation scores. Conclusion: Alienation was found to be common in madrasa students especially in male as compared to female students. There is need of further research in this area. So that this problem could be highlighted and addressed in order to prepare and to generate the coping ability among them.

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Authors: Farisha. A. T. P1, Sakkeel. K. P2

Lying is a part of communication and a form of social behavior which is involved in interacting with others. Lying means saying a statement that he/she knows themselves as false to others to whom he/she want to perceive it as true. It can be explained by different psychological principles of psychodynamic theory, humanistic theory, behavior theory etc. Lying arises from hedonistic nature of humans that to avoid pain and to increase pleasure. It can be also seen that we lies not only for personal gains but also for others gain too. That is to avoid harm affecting ourselves and to avoid hurting others. Lying can be accepted if it saves someone’s life-ourselves or of others.

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Authors: Krishna Kumar Mishra1, Jay Singh2

The present paper discusses the association of power and approval motives with adolescent altruistic behaviour. Gender difference was also tried to calculate. The present study comprised of 140 students (70 boys and 70 girls) of age range 13-19 years. Participants were given Self-report Altruism Scale, Power Motive Scale, and Approval Motive Scale. Results indicate that altruism is positively correlated with approval motive and negatively correlated with power motives. Results also revealed significant negative prediction of altruism by Power motive and significantly positively predicted by Approval motive. No gender difference was found in all three variables. Results of the present study will be empirically discussed.

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Authors: Dr. Thiyam Kiran Singh1, Arya Arvind2

There are limited numbers of studies which have evaluated mental retardation in a complete way. This article reviews the existing literature and electronic searches available regarding mental retardation. This article deals with mental retardation, definitions, types, brain defects causing retardation, some organic syndromes associated with retardation, screening tools used and a brief view on treatment methods used by Psychologist.

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Authors: Sandeep1, Lubna Siddiqui2, Aruna Paarcha3,Masood Ahsan Siddiqui4

In the present paper, we have analyzed the living arrangement of elderly in district Rohtak, Haryana. We have interviewed 500 elderly of different age groups in 2012. The study found that elderly is cared as about 90 per cent elderly stay in joint families. Not a single respondent male was living alone whereas 0.5 percent females in rural areas and 2.5 per cent in urban areas are living alone. The poor elderly are more satisfied than the rich elderly.

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Authors: Mohd. Ahamar Khan1

The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of spiritual practices on wellbeing among Madarsa and University students. The sample consisted of 100 (n=50 Madarsa and n=50 University students) participants. Spiritual Practices Scale (M) and Well Being Scale, was used to collect the data. Simple Linear Regression, Correlation and t-test were used for data analyses. The findings of this study revealed that, there is positive and significant influence of spiritual practices on overall wellbeing of students. There was also significant influence of spiritual practices on wellbeing of Madarsa as well as University students. Further t-test was applied and significant difference was found between spiritual practices as well as wellbeing of Madarsa and University students. This study has good significance in practical life; it could serve as a guide to increase student‟s spiritual practices to maximize wellbeing.