The International Journal of Indian Psychology

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Authors: Dr. Indrajitsinh. D. Thakor1*

Educational psychology is considered as an important branch of modern psychology. In it the study of behavior of a child to an old man is done scientifically in context of his learning environment. Psychiatrists study behavior of individuals with the aim of alleviating mental disorders. Anthropologists study the behavior of men in different cultures. All seek to understand and predict behavior. Psychology is only one of many areas of science which are concerned with the study of behavior and psychologists study many aspects of behavior that are also studied by other disciplines. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between Arts and Commerce college student on his achievement motivation in this research paper. Achievement Motivation inventory was used. The random sample (N=133) was taken from college. (69 Arts And 64 Commerce). “t” Test was calculated to find out the result. The “t” value of Achievement Motivation between Arts and Commerce college student comes to 1.30 which is in significant at 0.05 levels. This shows that, there is no significant difference between Arts and Commerce College students On Achievement Motivation. The detail results are indicating in the paper.

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Authors: Bani Narula1*

The present paper is an attempt to study gratitude and forgiveness in unison in order to better understand their conceptual links and to confirm the query that how might combining two or more strengths produce additive effects in the pursuit of well-being and happiness in one’s life. Most importantly, the population for whom a strengths-based approach seems particularly invaluable is adolescents, who are at a critical development stage of making key choices about their future. Hence, identifying gratitude and forgiveness as a complete ‘package’ during this stage of life will equip adolescents with both intrapersonal and interpersonal resources which would aid at facilitating adaptive negotiations of the complex adult world.

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Authors: Dr. Bobinder1*

The objective of this study was to compare of attitudinal difference in boys girls, rural & urban and poor & rich family towards English as a medium of instruction. A random sample consisted of 100 subjects from five senior secondary schools of Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. In the present research work Baghpat was the field of study. Survey method was used in the present research work. Attitude scale has been used for this research work. The arithmetic mean, S.D. and f-ratio were used for statistical analysis. Some study of abroad and some studies in Indian were selected for this research work. The results show that the rural students have more positive attitude than urban students towards English as a medium of instruction.

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Authors: Prof. H.K. Chhabra1*, Ms. Heena Parveen2

The study probed the effect of cognitive and emotional Stroop on the performance of students from different levels of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal and healthy reaction to perceived danger that triggers a variety of physical, mental and behavioral changes in order to facilitate a speedy response (WHO, 2004). Again, anxiety has also been found to have an important role to play in situations of cognitive conflict. The Stroop effect has often been widely used for assessing conflict (Stroop, 1935; MacLeod, 1991). In the present study, a mixed sample of 89 students from the Government schools of Chandigarh in the age range of 14-18 years (mean age= 15.9 years) was taken, for the purpose. The repeated measures ANOVA and other analysis of the data brought out performance differences with regard to how different groups of anxiety perform during cognitive and emotional Stroop task situations. The study revealed that anxiety significantly interacts with Stroop performance. Further, high anxiety damages emotional Stroop performance more than it damages the cognitive Stroop performance i.e., high anxiety individuals show more reactive control (Braver, 2012). On the other hand, low and moderate anxiety seems to lead to more errors on cognitive Stroop as compared to the emotional Stroop.

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Authors: Anusha Bhandari1*, Smriti. R. Sethi1

Every individual faces lot of hurdles in there day to day life, whether working, non-working or even those who are studying. The only factor that sets apart a winner from the others is how they respond to the situation that presents itself in front of them. Disability is considered to be a major problem in today's scenario and is also one major responsibility for those who have or are the care givers for those who have any kind of disability. Quality of life is the Individuals satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which they live. Quality of life not only consists of self satisfaction but also consists of two other factors as well, parenting and Family Adjustment and Psychological Distress. It is very important and a study also proves that involvement of a parent with their child is considered important when it comes to relationship between them and other family members. It helps in understanding the child well and also the similarities and dissimilarities between each other which helps in resolving various parenting and family issues. The study was done on 80 mothers, 40 working and 40 non-working mothers of differentially disabled children. The age group of mothers varied from 30 - 50 years. And for Children it was 5 - 10 years, which was studied using 3 different questionnaires. The study conducted shows that there is significant different between quality of life of Working and non-working mothers of differentially abled children, there is a significant Difference in psychological distress of working and non-working mothers of differentially abled children and it also reveals that there is no significant difference between parenting and Family adjustment of working and non-working mothers of differentially abled children.

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Authors: Mrs. Aarti Kaiwart1*, Mr. Manish Gupta1, Dr. Hemadri Sao2, Dr. Santosh Vishvakarma3

Today Stress is a part of our daily life work. Stress free life is nearly impossible to all people. But management of stress can be life easeful to live. Spiritual counseling can be one of the best tools for stress management. This research explores the effectiveness of spiritual counseling on stress level among college going students. Two group pre-post designs were used on Sample of 50 (25 in experimental and 25 in control group) college students. They were selected by incidental sampling method from the various colleges of Chhattisgarh. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 22 years. The experimental group was regularly exposed to Therapeutic intervention for 45 days. During this intervention the researcher discussed the problems with students & suggested them with solution through the reference of “Amritwani” heard every day. Data were collected through the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) by “Cohen”. For Statistical analysis of data “t-test.” Used. Results indicate highly significant effect of spiritual counseling on stress of college going students at 0.01 level of confidence.

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Authors: Nilosmita Banerjee1*

Socializing in today’s world is considered as one of the most important things. With the growing concept of social media and many other such aspects, socialization has now gained an even more predominant status. This phenomenon is of most importance among the younger generation, especially the adolescents. This study focuses on the concept of social phobia, also commonly known as social anxiety, among adolescents. This study tries to explore the prevalence of social phobia amongst the adolescent girls belonging to different types of institutions which include a co-ed college and a girls college. The samples for the study were in the age range of 15-17 years, 30 samples from each college. They belonged to eleventh grade. The other variable which was different was that the samples who belonged from the co-ed college belonged to the arts stream, and the samples from the girls college were from the science stream. The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (1987;Micheal Liebowitz) was administered on the students to measure the social anxiety, and they were given five open-ended questions which asked them, what would they do in certain social situations and what measures they would take to resolve them if they have any problem in the situations mentioned. The results showed an interesting aspect in respect to the prevalence of social anxiety among adolescent samples belonging to the different set ups of college. There was a difference of 13.34% in the prevalence of the social anxiety levels among the students. The samples from the co-ed college fell in the category of the 13.34%, wherein they showed levels of social anxiety as compared to the social anxiety levels of the samples in the girls’ college. It was also interesting to notice the differences and similarities in the responses the students from the two types of institutions provided. The study focuses on understanding whether the levels of social phobia or anxiety differ among the same gender of females in differing contexts, such as the nature of the institution or the type of stream they choose to study.

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Authors: Costică Lupu1*

The “Ion Borcea” Technical College from Buhuşi is a school unit that aims to provide opportunities for theoretical and practical training, with real chances of insertion on the job market, in the domains: textile and leather industry, public constructions and tendering, trade, by taking into account the aspirations professional of students. The students’ attraction for the enumerated domains has found the appropriate environment to lay the bases for a prospective improvement/ passion and addresses young persons with ages between 14 and 18 years. During the 2014/2015 school year, at the “Ion Borcea” Technical College, there were enrolled 744 students, divided into 28 classes. The article presents applicative research the impact of socio-economic background on educational outcomes and their training. There is a close link between the economic status of parents and school children. In our research there were used the following research methods: the observation and conversation; the analysis of school documents, questionnaire and the statistical methods.

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Authors: Megha Sharma1*, Dr. Aradhana Balodi Bhardwaj2

Introduction: Dancing is a powerful impulse and helps in channelizing ones energy. It serves different purposes for different individuals. Some seek entertainment with help of dancing whereas someone else might indulge in dancing because of the health benefits that come along. Various emotional can be attached to dancing and in turn it also caters to emotional needs of individuals. The purpose of this study was to study the impact of contemporary and western dancing styles on the well being levels of young females. Methodology: A sample of 80 females between 17-21 years of age was taken up for this particular study. The sample was divided equally into two groups of contemporary and western dancing styles. The Ryff Psychological Well Being Scale was used for administering the well being levels of participants’ pre and post the dance training. Results and Implications: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the well being levels of individuals on pre and post dance training measures. There was no significant difference between the overall well being levels of contemporary and western dance training groups. Also, there was no increase in the well being levels of young females post the dance training.

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Authors: Ahmed Mohammed Saleh Alduais1*

Purpose: To account for the rise and fall of transformational generative grammar (TGG). Method: The researcher followed a descriptive research approach where the presentation of this paper is totally based on previous studies accounting for TGG. Results: There were many reasons for the rise of TGG including: innovativeness of this approach, its presentation in relation to other fields like mathematics a logic, providing more reasonable answers for controversial issue in regard to language, etc.. On the other hand, there were many reason that have lead to the fall of this approach including: ambiguity resulting from integration with other fields, namely mathematics and logic, rise of sub-schools most importantly generative semantics, frequent modifications of the proposed theory, etc.. Conclusions: In spite of the fact that TGG was able to approach language innovatively but it seemed clearly to link human cognitive abilities to the proposed theory. More focus was based on the sentence level ignoring meaning and text.