The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Richa Varshney1, Dr. Uma Joshi2

Children are the building blocks of the nation and home is the first and most important school for the child, will ever have. Parental involvement has been recognized as the most important factor to influence the childhood and adulthood. Any enrichment programme, for maximizing the potentials of all the children has to have active parent-child interaction. The role of parents in bringing up their children is quite important both in terms of their devotion with respect to time spent with them, money and other consideration. Parents transmit the culture and custom of society to the incoming generation. Parent involvement implies how the parents involve themselves in developing overall personality of the child. It may be described as the allocation of resources to the child‟s school behavior. Parents‟ involvement in education either in school or at home, will create a partnership between school and parents. The resulting partnership between parents and school will develop effective communication from home to school and school to home. The main objective of the present study was to compare the parent knowledge, attitude and involvement towards school education between boys and girls children. Data was collected with the help of standardized tool „Parent Involvement Scale‟ by Dr. Rita Chopra and Surbala Sahoo. Sample size was 100 boys and girls of IVth and Vth Standards, will be selected from Agra city. Analysis of data was done by percentile technique. Findings of the study indicate that involvement of parents towards boy is more than girls. Although they support both of them but in some areas like tours from schools, outdoor group study, financial matter etc, they still ignore girls.

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Authors: S. Mohamad Moosavi1, Mahshid Ahmadi2, Javad Setareh3, Mani B.Monajemi4

Objectives: Sleep has been one of God’s most precious blessings since human’s existence and it is vital for both body and soul. External and internal factors like age, sex, drug, illness, psychological pressure, job, life style and Earth's magnetic field influence quality of sleep drastically. In this study we tended to find the relationship between geographical direction during sleeping process and quality of sleep. Methods: In a cross-sectional descriptive study, 200 students from university of Iran, Mazandaran province were selected arbitrarily. After exclusion, based on exclusion criteria, the number of research’s samples reached to 153. Tools used regarding collecting data were standard Pittsburg sleep quality inventory (PSQI) in order to assess the quality of the sleep. Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL- 90-R) was used in order to study psychiatric symptoms and an anonymous demographic questionnaire was used to record personal information, filled by individuals. Software Spss17 with chi-square were used for statistical analysis procedure. Results: 30.7%(47cases) slept in north-south direction, 22.8%(35) in south north, 26.2%(40) in east west and 20.3%(31) in west east. Among PSQI sleep scales, there was a strong relationship between difficulties in falling asleep with geographical directions of sleep (p<0.001). No significant relationship between sleep directions and other scales has been found. Conclusion: Considering the high prevalence of sleep difficulties and strong relationship between geographical directions and quality of sleep. With respect to this study, sleep in north-south position can be advised to improve sleep quality and it necessary in order to maintain sleep hygiene.

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Authors: Dr. Archana Shukla1, Deepti Mehrotra2

Context / background: The present study endeavourers to cast a glance at HIV/AIDS awareness among Female Sex Workers in CREATE (Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical Education) at Lucknow. Aim: To explore HIV/AIDS awareness among female sex workers. Methods: An ex post facto research with an exploratory orientation was conducted, on 50 female sex workers selected on the basis of purposive sampling (age ranged 20-30 years). An effort was made to identify the level of awareness among female sex workers through self devised questions. Percentage analysis was done. Results: Results revealed that majority of female sex workers were aware of HIV/AIDS, STD, there causes and preventive aspects. Conclusions: Though the picture seemed somewhat positive yet it is pathetic that almost half of the sample seemed either confused or unaware of the essential concepts regarding HIV/AIDS.

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Authors: Abdul Raffie Naik1

The current study focuses on locus of control and the difference in it among different demographic variables such as gender (male and female), course of study (science and arts) and locality (urban and rural) among college students. It is a promising area of inquiry. The age of college students is the age of developing their personality and is a critical context for studying personality. The study was conducted on 171 college student of Gulbarga city who were selected by a random sampling method (lottery method). The questionnaire consisted of personal data sheet, and Rotter’s locus of control scale. Descriptive Statistics and non-parametric statistics as Mann-Witney test (U) were used to analyze the data. The results could not find significant difference on locus of control among males & females, science & arts and urban & rural college students.

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Authors: Vandana Sharma1, M.G. Sharma2

The present study examines the effectiveness of psych-astrotherapy on pathological gamblers.75-Pre-treated and 75Post-treated pathological gamblers were evaluated at S. I. Mental and Physical Health Society (SIMPHS) Varanasi district in India. These groups were matched on age (range 19 to 44years with a mean age of 29.6 years and they had gambled for an average of 12.5 years with a mean length of uncontrollable gambling of 9.7 years). Indian adaptation of T.A.T. (Seven cards) 1, 3B, 4, 6BM, 7BM, 13MF was used to ascertain personality characteristics on the four selected dimensions viz: need, press, interpersonal relations and outcome. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicated that the characteristics associated with Post- treated pathological gamblers were cognizance, dominance, autonomy, achievement, counteraction, affiliation, sex capacity, interpersonal relations and outcome whereas the characteristics associated with Pre-treated pathological gamblers were aggression, rejection, passivity, acquisition, and press.

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Authors: Bhadkamkar M.1, Rejani T.G.2, Arvind A.3

Introduction: The relation between criminal behavior and different dimensions of personality features were studied extensively and available literature on offenders has described different personality traits observed in them. However very few literature is available on Indian population. Aim: To find the prominent personality traits, attribution styles used and level of sensation seeking among prisoners. Method: the study design used was cross-sectional design. 30 offenders from Sabarmati Central Jail were selected using purposive sampling. Tools: To assess attribution style, personality traits and sensation seeking behavior, following tool were used. Attribution Style Questionnaire, Eysenck‘s Personality Questionnaire, Brief Sensation Seeking Scale Result:43% prisoners scored high on neuroticism trait. 55% prisoners showed extraversion and 60 % females showed neuroticism as a predominant personality trait. 66.67 % prisoners had internal locus of control. 76.67 % prisoners had low level of sensation seeking. Implication: this study will throw light upon the criminal behavior and personality of prisoners which will be beneficial for future therapy work.

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Authors: Siti Nuzulia1

Work value refers to an individual‟s perception about work and relates to the meaning an individual assign to work. The brilliance of an organization very much depends on an individual‟s work value, as work value affects organizational behavior, performance, productivity, and organizational commitment. Work value also has its foundation on the cultural background that someone is exposed to, as different cultural values/norms have different influence on an individual‟s cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior. Therefore, a cross-cultural study that compares relationships between work attitude and aptitude at various cultural levels is required. This research is aimed at finding out the definitions work values hold by Javanese employees, because Javanese is one of the ethnics in Indonesia with its unique and typical custom. This research uses Indigenous Psychology. The participants were 700 employees of Javanese descent. The sampling method used was snowball sampling, in which the researcher randomly sample respondents that met the criteria, and they were then given the questionnaires. Research findings suggest that respondents define work as activities to fulfill family welfare, do something meaningful, carry out religious teaching, apply knowledge and add new insight. The research found seven main Javanese work values, which are discipline, loyalty, honesty, responsibility, totality, good relationship with co-workers, and enthusiasm. Furthermore, the results showed that the most attainable values through working are keeping busy, gaining status and gaining freedom.

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Authors: Dr. Ritu Sekhri1

Suicide Ideation has been considered as an important antecedent of attempted suicide. It refers to the cognitive aspect of suicide, and may be considered an early detection of more serious suicidal behaviour. When people view their lives from negative perspective filled with emotional pain and distress, they inflate the consequences of their mistakes, start believing that they will continue to fail and should give up altogether. Police officers are almost under stress to meet the demands of the public and works under high stressful conditions as they have to keep the crime rate under control. They have no breaks, no vacations, no weekends and have to work in all weather conditions providing public with all comforts. The paper focuses on the psychological variables and demographic factors such as anxiety, depression, alcohol, age, gender, socio-economic status, rank, years of service, years of current position, educational qualifications, marital status, presence of health-related problems that seems to play an important role in understanding the predictors of suicide ideation and suicide among Indian Police officers.

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Authors: Mohammd Kianbakht1, Shiva Nematpour Kapourchal2, Sedigheh Naghel3

Stress is perhaps the most common pain with which we are faced. None of other physical symptoms are general as pain. Accordingly, since the beginning of the recorded history, trying to control the pain has been the main goal of human beings. The present study examined the relationship between coping strategies, perfectionism, pain beliefs, and chronic pain among firefighters suffering from chronic pain after controlling the age factor. The study employed a descriptive-correlational method to examine 405 firefighters suffering from chronic pain. The sample was selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The participants completed the chronic pain, coping strategies, perfectionism, and pain beliefs questionnaires. Data were analyzed by Pearson's correlation and partial correlation. There was a significant positive relationship between firefighters’ age and the duration of pain, chronic pain disorder severity, emotion-focused coping strategies, pain beliefs and maladaptive perfectionism. Moreover, there was a significant negative relationship between firefighters’ age and problem-focused coping strategies and adaptive perfectionism. After controlling the age factor, high levels of pain duration and chronic pain disorder severity were related to high levels of emotion-focused coping strategies, maladaptive perfectionism, pain beliefs and low levels of problem-focused coping strategies and adaptive perfectionism. Zero-order correlation revealed that, the age of subjects had little impact on the strength of the relationships between the variables of the duration of pain and chronic pain disorder severity. The results indicated that, participants’ age had little impact on the strength of the relationship between the variables. It implies that young firefighters have urgent need for psychological interventions pertinent to the chronic pain for reducing chronic pain disorder severity and its duration.