The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Ajay Chauhan1

Main objective of the present study is to examine psychological well-being among Government and Private NGO’s abled person. A sample of 80 male and female Government and Private NGO’s abled person was drawn randomly selected Bhavnagar district area’s NGO’s. The psychological well-being scale: scale development and its correlates. Developed by Bhogle and Prakash was used for data collection. This scale in which five factors major meant. Data was collected by face to face interview method. Mean, SD and ‘t’ test were calculated for the analysis of data. Results indicate that there is no significant difference among Government and Private NGO’s abled person in psychological well-being.

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Authors: Trupti Ambalal Chandalia1

The main purpose of this research was to find out the mean difference between modernization and social change of rural and urban Adolescence. The total 480 sample were taken, out of 480 sample 240 were rural Adolescence & 240 urban adolescence were taken from Rajkot and Junagadh District. The research tool for comprehensive modernization, Prof. S. P. Ahluwalia & Dr. Ashok Kalia comprehensive modernization inventory (1985) was used for social change, Dr. Rama Tiwari, Agra, Miss Romapal and Miss Radha Pandey’s social change inventory used. Here Gujarati Adaption used t-test was applied to check the difference of modernization and social change. Check relation Karl-person ‘r’ method used. Result revels that significant difference in Modernization and social change with respect both rural and urban adolescence. While the co-relation between modernization and social change reveals positive significant difference. that means modernization are more so social change are more.

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Authors: SuboohYusuf1, Dr. Kr. Sajid khan2

"Work life balance “is a person’s control over the conditions in their workplace. The concept of work-family (life) balance has emerged from the acknowledgement that an individual's work-life and personal/family life may exert conflicting demands on each other. A balance between work and life is supposed to exist when there is a proper functioning at work and at home with a minimum of role conflict. “Well-being refers to how people evaluate their lives. According to Diener (1997), these evaluations may be in the form of cognitions or in the form of affect. The cognitive part is an information based appraisal of one’s life that is when a person gives conscious evaluative judgments about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole. The affective part is a hedonic evaluation guided by emotions and feelings such as frequency with which people experience pleasant/unpleasant moods in reaction to their lives..Thus the purpose of the research was to explore the relation between work life balance and well-being among employees. Samples were selected through random sampling. 40 employees of different sectors working in Qatar participated in the research. Work life balance scale developed by Hayman(2005) and well-being scale developed by Nishi Zawa (1996). For statistical analysis Pearson correlation was used. Result showed that correlation between work life balance and well-being among non-religious employees was found to be negative and there was positive relation between work life balance and well-being among religious employees.

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Authors: Sonal D. Parmar1

Our mind is a thought factory. It is a busy factory, producing countless thoughts in one day. There are two main ways of thinking; Thinking positively and thinking negatively. Over the year’s lot of research done on the positive effects of being positive and the negative effects of being negative. The research is clear. Being positive is not just a nice way to live. It’s the way to live. A positive thinking helps you cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and to avoid worries and negative thinking. Negative thinking, for a start, makes you feel bad in the present. So it is better to think positively instead of think negatively.

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Authors: Dr. Ratika Samtani1

This article refers to the psychological consequences of hypospadias, a male congenital abnormality of the urethra. Hypospadias is defined as an abnormal opening of the urethra on the underside of the penis and is a frequently found malformation with an incidence of 1 per 300 males. The article reviews the research relating to the psychosocial aspects of Hypospadias and the outcome of surgery on psychosocial development of the affected. Due to the fact that hypospadias is a psychological condition as well as a physical one, this paper discusses the influence of the condition on the patient's psychosocial and psychosexual development. The review highlights that severity of hypospadias influences a more negative genital appraisal and increased behavioral problems. It can be suggested that early identification of Hypospadias and surgery at birth may generate a better surgical outcome and sound psychosocial and psychosexual development

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Authors: Veena Chakravarthy1, Dr. V. Chandramohan2

Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness characterized by irritability, palpitations, dry mouth, tension and a feeling of impending doom. Anxiety feels like “fear”; one might know what one is afraid of, but it is difficult to know what makes one anxious. Anxiety impairs academic performance. The aim of the present study is to find out effectiveness of Cognitive behaviour therapy in the management of anxiety among school students. One hundred thirty healthy and well motivated school students, sixty five Boys and sixty five girls, studying Higher Secondary Course at Cambridge Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Bangalore, constituted as a sample for the present study. School students were administered with 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire Form D (16 PF) to assess anxiety in their basic personality. Out of 130 school students, 50 students, twenty five Boys and twenty five Girls, who showed high anxiety in the assessment of personality (16 PF), were administered with State Trait Anxiety Index (STAI) to assess the magnitude and severity of anxiety. Fifty School students, who were identified as anxiety prone in the personality test, showed high anxiety on STAI. They were managed through Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to counteract ill-effects of anxiety for three months. Results clearly indicate that there is extremely significant difference (P > 0.0001) existing between pre and post test Trait anxiety Percentile Rank scores of school students. CBT helped in the management of anxiety among school students. CBT seems to be one of the most effective, less time consuming and more economical therapeutic techniques in the management of anxiety among school students.

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Authors: Nehal B. Solanki1

The recent trends and challenges have brought dramatic changes in terms of creating virtual workplaces for both men and women. The present study aims to investigate feminine androgynous supervisors and subordinates who belong to rural and urban area and their differences in conflict management styles in work setting, research was conducted on the differences between status, residential area and preferred conflict management strategies. Identify the differences between androgynous female supervisor and subordinates and their adopted to resolve interpersonal conflict. The sample consisted of 220 Organizational androgynous female employees selected randomly from various branches of Rajkot districts. The Bem‟s Sex Role Orientation (BSRO) inventory adapted in Indian setting by Rao, Gupta and Murthy was used to measure gender role. Rahim‟s Organization Conflict Inventory (ROCI-II) was used to measure Conflict management style. The study reflects that significant effect between supervisor and subordinates conflict management styles and there was significant interactional effect of status and residential area.

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Authors: Ms. Shivani Datta1

The present research work intended to study perceived stress and coping resources in diverse workforces. Diversity in workforce has been operationalized not only at micro level in terms of relative male-female numerical strength of the workforce in the organization but also at a macro level in terms of the relative male-female composition of different occupations that has led to gender typing of these occupations. Most previous gender based studies have sought to understand perceived workplace stress narrowly in terms of impact of gender alone. The present study extends the framework of prior research work by examining stress and coping resources as a function of Gender, Occupational Gender Typing (Gender Atypical/Gender Neutral or Non Atypical) and Proportional (Male-Female) Numerical Strength at workplace (Tokens/Non Tokens), with an examination of different groups of Males and Females in Gender Atypical and Gender Neutral/Non Atypical occupations as numerical Tokens and Non Tokens respectively. Total sample size was 250. Results depict that the complex interaction of Gender, Gender typing of Occupation and Male Female proportional numerical strength impact perceived stress and coping resources.

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Authors: Kacker. P1

Rural Transformation involves creating wealth, employment, good health services, water, roads, sanitation, education etc for the betterment of the rural people. Education is one of the key approaches for rural transformation. Education for rural transformation has been given from years but still there is lack of education in many parts of India. This paper talks about some of the key approaches in education that can be used for rural transformation. For proper education proper data is required to show which area lack, which resources like schools, teachers, technologies, literacy rate etc; for these extensive surveys are required. Based on the survey further planning of education can be done like change of curriculum, use of technologies, educational/vocational training, adult education, agricultural education, health education etc.

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Authors: Nayanika Singh1, K. C. Barmola

Every student desires to perform well in schooling whether it is academic performance or others. Students’ performance gets distorted by many factors like overburden, difficulty of subject etc. Information technology has put another kind of burden on students. It is interesting on one hand while distracting on the other hand. This is mainly use of internet among adolescents due increasing literacy of computer and its uses in day today life. Observing present scenario the current study is aimed to find out the effect of internet addiction on mental health and academic performance of students. The sample consisted of 100 high school students, age ranging, 14 to 16 years drawn randomly from English medium schools of Rishikesh & Haridwar (Uttarakhand). Findings of the present study revealed that there was a significant effect of internet addiction on academic performance and mental health of students/adolescents. Results further indicated that the students who were in the severe and profound groups of internet addiction were found to have detrimental effects on both in their academic performance and mental health rather than the students who were addicted to the internet usage moderately.

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Authors: Munira. B. Punjvani1

The role of parents in socialization process has been a topic of considerable debate for decades. To elicit prosocial behavior in children is a major socialization goal for many parents. Therefore it is very necessary to study factors that bring out prosocial behaviors in adolescents. The relationship between parenting and children‟s prosocial behavior has been studied extensively; however, there have not been many such studies in India. This study focused on the role of parenting styles and the influence of the family income on the altruistic behavior of adolescents in India. Sixty participants both girls and boys under the age group of 13-19 years took part in the study, where they were divided into two groups based on the criteria of their family income, one group under the income bracket of 20,000-35,000 per month and the other, 1-1.5 lakhs per month .The influence of parenting styles on the altruistic level of adolescents was assessed by using two questionnaires, the Parental Authority Questionnaire 30-item version (PAQ) that has three subscales: permissive, authoritarian and authoritative and the Altruism Scale 30-item version (ALTS). Results show that participants with high authoritative parenting style had higher level of altruism when compared to permissive and authoritarian parenting style. Also the study found that there is no significant difference in the altruistic behavior of adolescents of the first income group (M=38.43) and the second income group (M=36.17). Therefore, the study suggests that while the difference in family income of the adolescents has a minimal effect on their altruistic behavior, parenting styles play a crucial role in their moral development.