The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Dr. Ramyashilpa. D. Nayak1

Modern day life is truing towards more and more devices and internet fever is just spreading like wild fire. For young people the life is just meaningless without internet, for some it’s just like oxygen without which it’s impossible for them to survive. According to the researches that have been carried out few years back Internet addiction is a psychological disorder proposed for inclusion in DSM-V (the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth revision), which was scheduled for publication in 2011. Korean researchers are developing a standard psychological tool called the K-scale to diagnose Internet addiction and measure its severity. According to Dr. Jerald Block, who recommends Internet addiction for inclusion in the manual, the proposed disorder exhibits four common characteristics of addiction: Excessive use, which may be accompanied by impaired sense of the passage of time and/or neglecting basic drives (such as hunger or the need for sleep).Withdrawal (when prevented from going online), which may be manifested as anger, tension or depression, Tolerance which in the case of internet addiction may be indicated by longer use or a perceived need for upgrades or new software. Negative consequences to the behavior, which may include arguments, fatigue, problems at school or work, lying, lack of achievement and social isolation. According to research from Stanford University School of Medicine in Silicon Valley in 2006one in eight people in the U.S. is addicted to the Internet. The typical Internet addict is "a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use." 14 percent of study respondents had difficulty abstaining for several days. 5.9 percent admitted that their Internet use impacted their relationships. 8.2 percent admitted that they used the Internet to escape reality. 3.7 percent were preoccupied by thoughts of going online when offline. In the present research an effort is made to understand the addiction effect among undergraduate students of India and Malaysia. The objective in the present research is to provide better intervention to the students if any students have high level of internet addiction. It has been hypothesized that compared to Indian students Malaysian students will significantly have high Internet addiction than Indian students. To assess the level of internet addiction among the undergraduate students Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Dr. Kimberly Youngis used. The sample for the research has been chosen from USM-KLE International Medical College Belagavi and KLE Institute of Nursing Sciences Belagavi. The total sample includes 200 undergraduate students from India and Malaysia (100-Indian students and 100 Malaysian students’ male and female); the age of the students is between 18 to 23 years.

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Authors: Tehseen Nazir, Dr. Metin Piskin

By the very time parents are trying to protect their children’s from the very atrocious situations that their children’s were going through. These deteriorating situations involve one of the gruesome acts of bullying. The paper tries to define this act of bullying in relation to the mental health of children’s affected with bullying. How their mental, social, physical and cognitive development has been affected. The paper also tries to explore various measures that can help children’s to cope up with such difficult problem.

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Authors: Dr. G. Sarvani

The present study is aimed at developing organizational care and support inventory with six dimensions viz. physical facilities, Educational facilities, Health problems, Social support, Peer group support and Moral support. After consulting experts 55 items were selected. A purposive sample 444 sheltered street children (government 176, non government 268) was selected various shelters in Hyderabad and Vijayawada cities of Telagana and Andhra Pradesh. The items of organizational care and support inventory were tested into two steps. In the first step, the discriminative ability of each statement was examined by comparing the mean scores of the first and last quartiles on each statement. The second step of testing involved the computation of inter correlation among the variables. It was also observed that numbers of clusters are found in correlation matrix of organizational care and support determinants. Hence, it was decided that a factor analysis, using principle of component solutions and rotated to a varimax criterion (Kaiser 1958) with an Eigen value of 1. After the factor analysis, 46 items are loaded into seven factors, remaining items are deleted and an inter correlation of the seven factors was performed.

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Authors: Dr. L. Umadevi, V. Kavitha Kiran

Case study method was employed to study the issues and challenges of older women in old age homes. The study reveals that most of respondents were having average physical health condition. The results of study further reveal that they have less satisfaction with life, they display negative emotions like depression, lonliness.

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Authors: K. Janardhan Reddy1, K. Viswanath1, S. Viswanatha Reddy2

The objective of this research is to examine the effect of gender, locality and class of study on Non Verbal creativity among 600 high school students. Creativity Scale developed by Venkatarami Reddy was used to assess the Non verbal creativity of the students. Results revealed that there is significant impact of gender, locality of residence and class of study on Non verbal creativity among high school students. Boys are high in their non verbal creativity than girls; students hailing from urban areas are secured higher non verbal creativity scores when compared with rural students and the students studying different classes differed in their non verbal creativity. X class students possess high non verbal creativity than VIII and IX class students and IX class students fall in between.

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Authors: Jaya Bharti

This is a cross-sectional comparative study with the aim to compare two patient groups of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder and their respective caregivers with the objectives to quantify and compare the burden in caregivers of person with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder and to study the relationship between them. In this study, 40 patients schizophrenia, 40 patients of schizoaffective disorder, along with their 80 respective caregivers were taken on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects were assessed using Socio-demographic and clinical sheet &BAS. Appropriate statistics such as mean, standard deviation, chi-square test, unpaired t test, Pearson’s correlation were applied to analyze the data. The results of the study revealed considerable burden of care in families of the patients and a significantly greater burden of care in caregivers of patients with schizoaffective especially in the following domains: spouse related, caregivers’ routine, physical and mental health, taking responsibility, patient’s behaviour and caregiver’s strategy. Some of the demographic variables like age and education etc. were also found to have significant correlation with burden of care.

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Authors: Dr. Malik Roshan Ara

Beliefs happen to be the most significant indicators of a person’s overall personality and provide us a window on his mental constructs. The study of the paranormal activities and phenomena has been riddled with controversy since its conception and previous researches revealed mixed and contradictory findings. The present study focuses to study correlation between Religious beliefs, paranormal beliefs and the personality factors across different religious groups, among individuals of different age groups and socio-economic status. Significant positive correlation was found between religiosity and paranormal beliefs as well as between religiosity and the traditional religious beliefs, psi and witchcraft subscales of the paranormal beliefs scale. Results also report a negative correlation between religious beliefs and the spiritualism, extraordinary-life-forms and precognition subscales of the paranormal beliefs scale. Neuroticism was found to be the only personality factor significantly predicting paranormal beliefs. Muslims scored higher on the traditional religious beliefs subscale in comparison with the Hindus. On the other hand, among the Hindus a higher degree of endorsement of witch-craft was observed. However, so far as the Christians are concerned no significant differences were observed either on global paranormal beliefs or any of the subscales of the paranormal beliefs. Socially marginal groups were found to be more susceptible to paranormal beliefs. They scored higher on psi, witchcraft, superstition, spiritualism, precognition as well as the total- paranormal beliefs scale.