The International Journal of Indian Psychology

8

Authors: V. Divya, Dr. K. Mayuri

The present study of Body Image Perceptions and its Correlation with Self Esteem of adolescents studying in engineering colleges of Hyderabad was made to know the relationship between Body Image Perceptions (skin complexion, facial features, blemish free skin, height, weight, etc.) and Self Esteem of adolescents. About 200 adolescents (100 boys and 100 girls) ranging from age group of 18 to 20 years were selected from engineering colleges of Hyderabad and Secunderabad regions of Telangana state. Body Image Perception scale and Rosenberg’s Self Esteem scale were used to collect data and simple Pearson correlation was applied for selected population. The present study contributes to an emerging understanding of underlying relation between body image and self esteem. The findings reveal how the Self esteem is positively correlated with self assessment and perpetually inclined towards the overall assessment of Body Image Perceptions at 1% level of significance. The results presented will reveal the facts of effective correlation between the two considered variables of study.

8

Authors: Dr. Mrunal A. Bhardwaj, Shraddha A. Raravikar

The key objective of a present article is to propose and explain “Intentional Enrichment technique” that provides activities to enhance the level of Subjective Well-being and to examine the study that is carried out to test the effectiveness of the technique. “Intentional Enrichment technique” assists individual to take up his responsibility of own happiness and actively try for it. The technique takes support of Fordyce 14 Happiness Fundamentals (1977, 1983) and Keyes’s model of mental health (Keyes and Lopez, 2002). According to the technique, efforts for Intentional Enrichment can be divided into five ingredients i. e. Enrichment of the Self, Enrichment of Thoughts, Enrichment of Relationships, Enrichment of the Work, Enrichment of society. The field experiment is carried on one hundred and forty junior and senior college teachers. The technique proved efficient in improving the level of subjective well-being.

9

Authors: Dr. Chandrakant Jamadar, Dr. Shankarlinge Gowda, Dr. S. P. Melkeri

The present study is an attempt to investigate the conjoint of impact of age on uniqueness, simplicity and aliveness among old age people. The sample consists of 210 old age people from Mysore old age home. In 210, 105 pensioned and 105 non pensioned old age people, the data collected in random method. The result shows that, significant differences in gender, domicile and dimensions of the behavior, also age is more effective role in changing uniqueness, simplicity and aliveness.

12

Authors: Dr. Shankarlinge Gowda, Dr. Chandrakant Jamadar

The present study aims to find out the prevalence of shyness among adolescents in tribal and rural areas as well as to find out the relationship between of occupational preference among adolescents of tribal and rural areas, influence of shyness levels, gender, and income on job preference among the adolescents. The experience of shyness can occur at any or all of the following levels: cognitive, affective, physiological and behavioural and may be triggered by a wide variety of situational cues. Since shyness could affect any dimension, the present study aims to identify the influence of shyness on occupational preference of the adolescents. The study of adolescent shyness has implications for understanding some of the more extreme examples of adolescent violence as exhibited by recent high school shootings perpetrated by shy, socially isolated, angry adolescents labeled as “cynically shy” (Carducci, 2000) and the development of strategies for reducing the social isolation experienced by such socially disenfranchised adolescents. Finally, severe shyness that continues into the later years of life can result in chronic social isolation that leads to increasingly severe loneliness and related psychopathology, and even to chronic illness and a shorter life span. Lastly, after studying the shyness aspects and relationship with other variables, an attempt will be made to suggest few remedial measures for shyness.

15

Authors: Pratima

Family caregivers of persons with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia experience high level of burden and compromised quality of life. A considerable amount of burden on the caregivers often leads to display of certain attitudes towards persons with severe mental illness called expressed emotion, which then leads to poor quality of patients as well. Although numerous studies dealing with these issues separately are present, but studies dealing with relationship, using mixed methodology, among these issues are scarce. The aim of the present study was to understand how actually the construct of quality of life in different demographic conditions affect life conditions of schizophrenic and bipolar patients and determining relapse. The present study was designed mainly to assess the quality of life on patients and the families of a particular group of patients namely those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The objectives if the present research were to study: (i) the quality of life of patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective disorder. (ii) the quality of life of caregivers of patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective disorder. Patients with disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder are more likely to relapse when there is high expressed emotion present in their living environment. The stress from the remarks and attitudes of the family is overwhelming because they feel like the cause of the problems. The patient then falls into the cycle of relapse. The only way to escape this vortex for the family is to go through therapy together to prevent the relapse. But before that it becomes necessary to understand that what is the reason behind such attitude towards a family member who is mentally ill, what is the cause of burden and what all changes the caregivers’ and the patients’ quality of life come across.