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Influence of Emotional Competence on Well-being among Adolescents
Authors: Rashida Masrat
Published: September 2020

An attempt has been made to study the influence of Emotional Competence on Well-being among Male and Female Adolescents. The present study was conducted on 100 Adolescents (Male n=50 & Female n=50) using Simple Random Sampling. Emotional Competence and Well-being was assessed by using Emotional Competence Scale developed by J. S. Fulton Paiva and Dr. M. Suresh Kumar (2009) and Well-being scale developed by Jagsharanbir Singh and Dr. Asha Gupta (2001). The scale of Well-being consists of five dimensions viz ; Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional and Spiritual Well-being. After analyzing the data by Simple Linear Regression, the first finding showed the Emotional Competence appeared as a significant predictor of overall Well-being among Male Adolescents. It implies that there is a significant positive correlation between Emotional Competence and Overall Well-being among Male Adolescents. The second finding indicates that Emotional competence appeared as significant factor of Mental, Social, Emotional and Spiritual Well-being but not as factor of Physical Well-being. The third finding showed that Emotional Competence also appeared as a significant predictor overall Well-being among Female Adolescents. . It implies that there is a significant positive correlation between Emotional Competence and Overall Well-being among Female Adolescents. The last finding reveals that Emotional Competence significantly influences the degree of Physical and Emotional Well-being but doesn‟t influence the degree of Mental, Social and Spiritual Well-being. Well-being is a leading issue for every Individual, if Emotional Competence leads towards better Well-being among Individuals, let them express their inner feelings without any suppression.
Mental Health of East and West Area People in Ahmedabad
Authors: Janki Rathod  , Dr. S. M. Kaji
Published: September 2020

The Present investigation is to find out the differences in mental health of East and West area people in Ahmedabad. The sample consisted of 120 people out of which 60 were east area people and 60 were west area people. For this purpose of investigation „Mental Health Analysis Inventory‟ by A.B.Jansari, HarkantBadami, Charulata Badami was used. The data obtained were analyzed through„t‟ test to know the mean difference between the two groups. The result shows that there is no significant difference in mental health of east and west area people and east area male-female in Ahmedabad. There is significant difference in mental health of west area male and female people at 0.05 Levels.
SETP: A New Powerful Tool for Improving Problem Solving, Decision Making and Creativity in Teenagers.
Authors: Dr. Arvinder Singh  , Dr. Ajay K. Chaudhary
Published: September 2020

Our decisions decide our destiny. Problem solving, decision-making, analytical reasoning and creativity are important abilities not only for studies but also for every sphere of life. SETP (Seven Effective Thinking Patterns) tool developed by Dr. Arvinder Singh was applied on teenagers to study the effect on their cognitive abilities. The study was done on 50 convent school students. Important parameters like Innovative Thoughts, Decisive Factors, Pros- Cons Analysis and Broader Perspectives were studied on the scale of 1 to 5. Scoring was done for Pre-training and Post-training sessions. For innovative thoughts pre-training score was 2.10±0.678, while for post training it was 3.34±0.717. Decisive factor‟s pre-training score was 1.68±0.653, while for post training it was 3.52±0.735. Pros-cons analysis pre-training score was 1.66±0.557 and post training score was 3.32±0.768. Broader perspective pre-training score was 1.86±0.700, while for post training it was 3.52±0.931.For language pre-training score was 2.70±0.763, while for post training it was 2.76±0.847. For expression pre-training score was 2.68±0.768 and for post training it was 2.88±1.256. The above findings suggest that SETP tool was effective and showed significant improvement in 4 out of 6 parameters. The tool was not effective for language and expression parameters. Important point is that by SETP tool, we were able to enhance the cognitive abilities of school going children, which will make solid foundation for their future.
Comparative Study of Emotional Maturity and Self Concept among Doctors and Managers
Authors: Sharad V. Sawalkar  , Dr. A.R. Bhardwaj
Published: September 2020

The present study evaluates the emotional maturity and self concept among Doctors and managers. The sample consisted of 100 professionals (50 Doctors and 50 Managers) from Jalgaon and Nashik cities of North Maharashtra. Self-concept rating scale, developed by Dr. Muktarani Rastogiand Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh and Bhargava Scales were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed by „t‟ test. The results discovered that the Doctors and Managers have no significantly difference on emotional maturity. It was also noticed that Doctors and Managers have no significantly difference on self concept.
Self Concept and Values of Male and Female Employees Working in Banking Sector
Authors: Rani Tripathi  , Dr. Jaiprakash N. Choube
Published: September 2020

The present study was conducted to compare the self concept and Values of male and female employees in banking sector. The sample for the present investigation consists 120 employees from Jalgaon City. In order to select the sample from the banking systematic random sampling technique was involved. From banking both male and female subjects were included in the sample. The researcher used two standardized psychological tests the self-concept scale by Dr. Raj Kumar Saraswat (1984) and Kamal Dwivedi and Shagufta Hafiz (1998) value scale to collect the data from the field. The investigator used different statistical analysis viz, mean, S.D and t-test to analyze the data. It was found male employees in comparison to female employee have been found high on self concept. The male and female employees on values have been not found significance difference on values scale.
Contemporary Religious Fundamentalism
Authors: Dr. Uma S. Sharma
Published: September 2020

Religious fundamentalism in the South Asian region has assumed serious proportions in the last few decades. Sri Lanka, India Pakistan and to some extent Bangladesh face this problem. It is therefore necessary to examine this problem in detail.The question that crops up is what is religious fundamentalism? Why does it get aggravated so as to express itself violently. At the same time the difference between ethnicity and religious fundamentalism too should be clarified. Thus we first come to the issue of ethnicity. Ethnicity, anthropologists and Sociologists maintain, is a feeling of primordial identity with one’s social religious, linguistic or cultural group.
A Study of Gender Inequality in India
Authors: Priti Jha  , Niti Nagar
Published: September 2020

This study considers the gender inequality that exists among every region, social class and prevents the growth of Indian economy from improving the lives of Indian people. The reality of gender inequality in India is very complex and diversified, because it exists in every field like education, employment opportunities, income, health, cultural issues, social issues, economic issues etc. An attempt has been made to find out those factors which are responsible for this problem in India. So, this paper highlights the multi-dimensional context of gender inequalities prevalent in India. Overall, the study indicates the inequality in economic, social, cultural and legal biasness which are of a great challenge for policy-makers and social scientists to establish proper equality in the entire social field. The researchers have tried to suggest some relevant strategies and policies implication for reducing this gender inequality and to promote the dignified position for Indian women.
Key approaches of Education for Rural Transformation
Authors: Kacker. P
Published: September 2020

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.
Work Life Balance in Relation to Well-Being of Religious and Non-Religious Employees
Authors: SuboohYusuf  , Dr. Kr. Sajid khan
Published: September 2020

“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.
Effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the Management of Anxiety among School Students
Authors: Veena Chakravarthy  , Dr. V. Chandramohan
Published: September 2020

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.
Classroom Physical Environment and Academic Achievement of Students
Authors: Swati H. Kekare
Published: September 2020

The present study explored the relationship between classroom environment and academic achievement of the subjects. The subjects 11th class students. The sample of 80 students was selected from various colleges of Aurangabad city. Simple random sampling method was used for selecting subjects. The study was experimental “pre-test post-test equivalent group design” was used for this study. Statistical data was collected from pre-test post-test. Mean, standard deviation and t test were used for statistical procedure. In this study results are significant at 0.05 level. The study showed that there is significant difference between classroom physical environment and academic achievement of subjects.
Emotional Abuse: Agony for Adolescents
Authors: Falak Nesheen  , Dr. Shah Alam
Published: September 2020

Adolescence is a period of transition during which an individual experiences not only profound physical, physiological, cognitive and emotional changes but also experience many emotional abuse. The transition from childhood to adolescence may be challenging time for majority of young people. Emotional Abuse as recently stated in a maltreatment prevention guide proves to be detrimental for child‟s physical, social, mental and spiritual development. Emotional abuse has been variously characterized as “the use of verbal and non-verbal acts which symbolically hurt the other or the use of threats to hurt the other”. The basic aim of this paper is to explore the kinds of emotional abuse and then suggest various strategies to overcome such aspects of life. The paper reports a series of factors responsible for the torment among the emotionally abused adolescents or the excruciation they go through. This paper also highlights the role played by parents, teachers and peers in emotional abuse such as shame and humiliation, rejection and ignoring, terrorizing, isolating and corrupting etc. Studies during the last decades have consistently documented impaired cognitive abilities and poor academic achievement along with aggression, irritability, hyper vigilance, suicidal tendencies, paranoia and substance uses behavior among emotionally abused adolescents. If Emotional abuse remains a routine task in the life of an adolescent, it may have long term consequences at every walk of his/her life.
Impact of Gender and Faculty on Study Habits and Attitudes of College Students
Authors: Dr. Indrajitsinh. D. Thakor
Published: September 2020

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of college students toward his study habits and attitudes. In this investigation also sought to ascertain of gender (Male and Female) and faculty (Arts and Commerce) influence towards study habits and attitudes. In this research paper study habits and attitudes inventory was used. The random sample (N=850) was taken from different colleges. (Male – 425 and Female – 425) out of 425 male, 213 were from arts and 212 were commerce faculty. Similarly, female group consisted of 425 female, 210 were from arts and 215 were commerce faculty. In this study the results indicated that there was no significant difference in study habits and attitudes of male and female. Similarly, on significant difference was found between arts and commerce faculty in study habits and attitudes. Detail are given in paper itself.
Secularism as Related to Gender and Religion
Authors: Dr. Shashi Kala Singh  , Mrs. Pushpa Singh
Published: September 2020

The aim of the present study was to examine the gender and religion difference in secularism. Participants were 100 school students belong to Ranchi town (50 boys& 50 girls) of age range 13 to 16 years. All of these belong to middle socio-economic status. Respondents were given secularism scale. Data was analyzed by using means, standard deviations and “t”. The mean of male student was 31.53and female student was 29.97. The difference between the means was insignificant. Boys and girls showed similar level of secularism.Christian group showed significantly higher level of secularism than Muslim group.
Curiosity among School going Students
Authors: Dr. Shashi Kala Singh
Published: September 2020

Aim of the present research was to find out the curiosity among school going students as related to gender, socio-economic status and place of residence. Participants were 200 children (100 boys and 100 girls) from different schools of Ranchi town. The scale used was Children’s Curiosity Scale developed by Kumar (1992). Data were analysis by F test. Result showed that there was no significant difference between boys and girls students on curiosity. There was significant difference between curiosities of high and low socio-economic status students. There was no significant difference between urban and rural students.
Academic Cheating among Adolescents in relation to Socio-Economic Status
Authors: Prof. Ashok K. Kalia  , Mr. Vinod Kumar
Published: September 2020

Academic cheating is a phenomenon present at all levels of education. The present study has tried to explore the academic cheating among adolescents with different levels of socio-economic status. A representative sample of 300 (150 male and 150 female) adolescents from urban and rural schools of five districts in Haryana was randomly selected. Academic Cheating Scale by Kalia & Kirandeep (2011) and Socio-economic Status Scale by Kalia & Sahu (2012) were used to assess academic cheating and socio-economic status of adolescents. ANNOVA followed by t-test was applied to study significant difference in academic cheating among adolescents with different levels of socio-economic status. The study revealed that adolescents having High socio-economic status were found to be significantly higher on academic cheating in comparison with adolescents having Low socio-economic. Similar results were observed for Male, Urban and Rural adolescents for same groups‟ comparison. No significant difference was found among female adolescents having high socio-economic status, middle socio-economic status and low socio-economic status. However no significant difference was observed for rest of groups‟ comparison.
Perceived Social Support and Severity of Chronic Pain in Fire Fighters of Tehran City
Authors: Mohammad Kianbakht  , Sedighe Naghel  , Hossienkohandel  , Vida Namdari
Published: September 2020

Objectives: The main goal of the study was to investigating the relation between perceived social supports with severity of chronic pain in fire fighters of Tehran city. Method: this was a descriptive and correlational study. Accordingly, 400 fire fighters were selected through cluster random sampling. All subjects filled chronic pain questionnaire and multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS). Data was analyzed through Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression. Results: results showed that there is significant and negative relationship (p<0/0001) between severity of chronic pain with perceived social support and its’ aspects (supports from family, friends and important persons). Conclusion: findings of this study again demonstrated the important role of socio-psychological factors in predicting severity of chronic pain.
A Case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Nicotine Abuse with Distorted Family Dynamics
Authors: Mr. Kannappa Setty V  , Dr. Sanjeevkumar Manikappa  , Dr. R Dhanasekara  Pandian
Published: September 2020

In the 21st century where communicable diseases are being replaced by behavioral problems, there is increased need for psychiatric social work interventions in dealing with psychosocial issues and restoring individual functioning. Changing familial and social structures too have negatives impact on the management of psychiatric disorders, especially in rehabilitation of persons with severe mental illnesses. Here is a case study that highlights both the importance of and challenges in psychosocial Interventions.

The case study illustrates the rehabilitation process of a client with obsessive compulsive disorders, poor secondary social support, distorted family dynamics and frequent relapses. The client was enabled to make informed choices about his illness, occupation and social rehabilitation.
Gender and Mental Health
Authors: Mustafa Nadeem Kirmani  , Preeti Sharma  , Firdos Jahan
Published: September 2020

It has been consistently observed and found in research that there are marked gender differences in the prevalence of many mental disorders. The paper will examine the most common mental health issues and their differential prevalence among men and women. The paper will also throw light on the various psychological models of gender development which might help in understanding the possible reasons of differential rate of  different disorders among women and men. The paper will focus more on the psychosocial origin of gender differences in various mental health issues. It has implications to bring changes in socialization patterns, parenting practices, coping styles, reinforcement contingencies, shedding negative stereotypes to decrease the prevalence of some gender specific disorders.
Lonely Together: The Psychological Divide Due to Social Networking Sites
Authors: Aastha Dhingra
Published: September 2020

We live in a world full of judgment and competition, inescapably comparing ourselves and being compared to those around us. The types of actions users take and the kinds of information they are adding to their Facebook walls and profiles are a reflection of their identities. You are your Facebook, basically, and despite all its socialness, Facebook is a deeply personal medium. The time spent earlier during a car ride to a daydream, or building fantasies during lunchtime at work, or those small breaks one took to gaze outside the window are now all time to connect with technology, reply to a text, log on to websites and check email or notifications. I feel robbed on my aloneness, to be rather a buzz of constant communication, that hinders my every moment, and there is always someone to reply to. I finalized this topic because I wanted to explore the need of projection of an online identity of one’s self and if it is the performance and the constant simulation that keeps us stimulated and addicted or is it the reflection of the real onto our screens, because some of us project and consume, idealized images through Facebook, and researchers have been trying to figure out how all this flawlessness affects us in the real world.
Effect of Psychological well being, Death Anxiety and Depression On curable & Incurable Disease Patients
Authors: Dr. Krishna J. Vaghela
Published: September 2020

The present study has been designed to investigate the difference of psychological well- being, death anxiety, depression between incurable and curable diseases patients. The study was conducted over a sample of eighty patients both incurable diseases patients and curable diseases patients. All participates were administered the psychological well- being scale, death anxiety scale and depression scale. Data was analyzed using t-test. The results reported that exists a statistically significant difference in psychological well-being between incurable and curable diseases patients. As regarding the death anxiety in curable diseases patients was not different significantly from that of patients with incurable diseases. Significant difference is also observed between incurable diseases and curable diseases patients as regarding to their level of depression.
Soft Skills Training For Students of Higher Education: Some Initial Observations
Authors: Mr. Joseph V. Philip  , Mr. V. Kannappa Setty  , Dr. R. Parthasarathy  , Dr. Dorothy P. Rekha
Published: September 2020

Recently the authors were assigned to train higher education students (the second year master‘s and PhD scholars) with soft skills at the Department of Social Work at the Kuvempu University, Shimoga. The department wanted to enhance the students‘ preparedness into being competent professionals through social skills training as soft skills can enhance their technical expertise.
Relational Dynamics of MSM Population
Authors: Dr. Archana Shukla  , Saurabh Srivastava
Published: September 2020

The aim of present study was to cast a glance on the dynamics of interpersonal relationships of Men who have sex with Men (MSM). Sample of 50 MSM were selected through purposive sampling technique age ranged from 16 to 40 years from Bharosa (Trust on MSM). Thematic Apperception Test (Indian adaption by Dr. Uma Roy Chowdhary) was administered on the participants. Result revealed that conflicting interpersonal relationships of MSM with their significant others specially father.
Mind and Body in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy: A Psychological Relationship
Authors: Hossien Kohandel
Published: September 2020

Mind body problem is the old philosophical debate many philosophers in all ages have engaged to solve the problem. Despite the efforts have been done by many philosophers of mind but still they are not able to provide a reasonable explanation of the problem, however, Islamic philosophers before MullaSadra also could not solve this problem. But MullaSadra introduced one new philosophical principle, such as principality of existence, intensity of being and substance in motion that succeeded to justify mind-body problem. This paper deals with the historical background of this issue and then goes through the psychological idea of MullaSadra on the relationship between mind and body.
The Relationship between Personality Factors and Organizational Commitment among University Employees
Authors: Abdul Raffie Naik
Published: September 2020

This present study was aimed to know the relationship between Personality Factors (Openness and Conscientiousness) and Organizational Commitment among university employees. The NEO Five Facto Inventory a 60 item Questionnaire and Organizational Commitment Scale consists of 8 items was administered on the university employees. Simple of 30 individuals were selected through purposive sampling from Molana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used for statistical analyses. The result revealed that there exist an inverse relationship between organizational commitment and openness and positive relationship between organizational commitment and conscientiousness.
HIV/AIDS awareness among Female Sex Workers
Authors: Dr. Archana Shukla  , Deepti Mehrotra
Published: September 2020

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.
A Study of Spirituality and Home Environment among Various Religious Group
Authors: Dr. Rajesh B. Shirsath
Published: September 2020

The aim of present study was to find out differences of various religious groups of college students on spirituality and home environment. An experiment was conducted on 100 college student included that Hindu – 25, Muslim- 25, Buddhist – 25 and Christian – 25. One way ANOVAs used for statistical interpretation. To measure spirituality of the subjects Spirituality Scale (Biswas & Biswas, 2006) and Perceived home environment the Home Environment Inventory (HEI) was used for data collection. Analysis by ONE-way ANOVA showed that there is significant difference of spirituality among various religious groups of college students. There will be significant difference of home environment among various religious groups of college students.
Expectancy for Success and Perceived Stress In Relation To Parenting among Teenagers
Authors: Dr. M. K. Mathew  , Mrs. Chinchu Rani Vincent
Published: September 2020

The child‟s first and foremost developmental context happens within the family. Hence family plays a major role in the development of a child, where in the parents have the majority of responsibilities in bringing up of the child. Hence parenting is an art of cherishing a child right through its life (James, A. 2003).There are different parenting styles adopted by parents according to circumstances. Whatever may be the style of parenting; there will be effects on the child‟s overall development. The parenting styles are based on the entire specific behavioural patterns that influence the mental developments of children.
The Relationship between coping Strategies, Perfectionism, Beliefs Pain and the Chronic Pain after Controlling the Age Effects in Firefighters
Authors: Mohammd Kianbakht  , Shiva Nematpour Kapourchal  , Sedigheh Naghel
Published: September 2020

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.
World Mental Health Day
Authors: Dr. Meghamala. S. Tavaragi  , Mrs. Sushma.C  , Dr. Susheelkumar V. Ronad
Published: September 2020

World Mental Health Day (10 October) is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries. This day, each October thousands of supporters come to celebrate this annual awareness program to bring attention to Mental Illness and its major effects on peoples’ life worldwide. In some countries this day is part of the larger Mental Illness Awareness Week. Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of a mental disorder it is the “psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment”. The definition of mental health highlights emotional well-being, the capacity to live a full and creative life, and the flexibility to deal with life’s inevitable challenges. A person struggling with his or her behavioral health may face stress, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, addiction, ADHD or learning disabilities, mood disorders, or other psychological concerns. Counselors, therapists, life coaches, psychologists, nurse practitioners or physicians can help manage behavioral health concerns with treatments such as therapy, counseling, or medication. At the beginning of the 20th century, Clifford Beers founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and opened the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States of America. The mental hygiene movement, related to the social hygiene movement, had at times been associated with advocating eugenics and sterilization of those considered too mentally deficient to be assisted into productive work and contented family life. Global mental health is the international perspective on different aspects of mental health. The overall aim of the field of global mental health is to strengthen mental health all over the world by providing information about the mental health situation in all countries, and identifying mental health care needs in order to develop cost-effective interventions to meet those specific needs.
Connectivism: A Review
Authors: Mina Khatibi  , Mahboobeh Fouladchang
Published: September 2020

George Siemens and Stephen Downes developed a theory for the digital age, called connectivism, denouncing boundaries of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks. An account of connectivism is therefore necessarily preceded by an account of networks. Current developments with technology and social software are significantly altering: (a) how learners access information and knowledge, and (b) how learners dialogue with the instructor and each other. Both of these domains (access and interaction) have previously been largely under the control of the teacher or instructor. Since half of what is known today was not known 10 years ago, there should be more researches about the use, benefits and drawbacks of connectivism in the cotext of formal and informal lerning. Although there is not a large amount of research currently available on the application of connectivism in education, some possible applications, such as: social networking, personal learning environments and open courseware are explained.
Religiosity as a Predictor of Emotional Stability among Adolescence
Authors: Nancy Agrawal  , Kehksha
Published: September 2020

The study aimed at examining religiosity as a predictor of emotional stability among adolescence. The study was made by using random sampling method through the selection of 90 adolescents from Madrasa. The sample age ranged between 13 -18 years. Two instruments were used, named: Religiosity Scale and Emotional stability test. Data analysis involved the use of Pearson Product Moment correlation. The result showed positive correlation between religiosity and emotional stability. It appears from the trend of the result that religiosity and emotional stability are interrelated. It means if emotional stability increases the religiosity will also increases and vice versa. Though the relationship between these two variables is not very high but positive relationship exist between these two variables.
A Study on Facebook Addiction and its Relationship with Emotional Experience and Coping Strategies
Authors: Md. Hassan Jafri
Published: September 2020

Popularity and wide usage of Facebook has led some to its excessive use leading to the Facebook addiction which may results into several negative consequences. The present study aimed to investigate influence of Facebook addict on their emotional experiences (negative and positive emotions). The study also aimed to ascertain the influence of Facebook addicts on their coping strategies to deal with their stress. Survey was undertaken from 35 undergraduate students, taken randomly from commerce and business management of a college of Royal university of Bhutan, Bhutan. Results from regression analysis revealed that addicts experience negative emotions more than positive emotion. Similarly addicts adopted maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the stresses. The research has significant value for students, parents and educational institutions to understand negative side of excess use of Facebook and according control their usage behaviour.
Role of Education on Spiritual Intelligence between Science and Arts Undergraduate Students
Authors: Nancy Agrawal  , Prof. Mahmood S. Khan
Published: September 2020

Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Education must also guide one for fast, firm and successful thinking. Educational achievement is associated with many life outcomes, including income, occupation and many health and way of life variables. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and logically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the stage in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. Vaughan (2002) states that Working as a psychotherapist, my thought is that spiritual intelligence opens the heart, illuminates the mind, and inspires the soul, connecting the individual human psyche to the underlying ground of being. Spiritual intelligence can be developed with practice and can help a person discriminate actuality from illusion.In this situation an attempt was made to ascertain therole of education on spiritual intelligence between science and arts undergraduate students. For this purpose we selected 80 students randomly from the faculty of science and faculty of arts in A.M.U. to meet the objectives and have a better idea and analysis to understand the student’s behaviour. We applied the spiritual intelligence self-report inventory developed by D. King in 2008. We analyseddata with the help of t- test. The obtained results revealed that the students of arts are more spiritual as compared to students of science. We have found the insignificant difference between both the groups on holy intelligence level.
Psychosexual Health of Married Nurses Working in Private & Government Hospitals
Authors: Dr. Shikha Sharma
Published: September 2020

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Women’s health involves their emotional, social and physical well-being and is determined by the social, political and economic context of their lives, as well as by biology. Health and performance are interdependent to each other. Good health is the foundation of performance. A healthy person will do better in every aspect of life, such as professional life, family life, marital life and sexual life etc.
Resilience Capacity and Support Function of Paniya Tribal Adolescents in Kerala and Its Association with Demographic variables
Authors: Saranya T.S  , Sibnath Deb
Published: September 2020

Paniya tribes are the vast majority tribal group of Kerala and are found mainly in the northern districts of the state. They are economically backward with low literacy rate (49.5%) comparing to the states average of 93.9%. Adolescents are the future and hope of this community because most of them are first generation learners. This study aims to understand the resilience capacity and support function of the adolescents in association with demographical variables. Resilience scale Support Function scale and Background information scale were used to obtain the information. To achieve the purpose of the study the researcher selected 108 subjects using multi-stage sampling method and collected data. The researcher found that resilience capacity and support function are positively related to each other (p<.01) and both resilience capacity and support function are found higher among females (p<.01). The study also revealed that school environment and educational status acts as protective factors for resilience capacity and support function(p<.01).The findings of the study will be useful for NGOs and governmental organization for policy implementation in the area.
Effectiveness of Parent Occupation on Mental Health, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Well-Being among College Students
Authors: Maryam Farhang  , Dr. H. Sam SanandaRaj
Published: September 2020

The present study has been carried out with the aim of investigating the college students mental health status (and its subscales likewise, attitude toward the self, self-actualization, integration, autonomy, perception of reality, environmental mastery), self-esteem, and subjective well-being based on their parents occupation. The sample of the study consisted of 750 college students studying in different college of Visakhapatnam city (India), selected through stratified sampling method. In order to collect data, the Mental Health status, (M.H.S. Scale) by P. Gireesan & Sananda Raj,(1988), Self-Esteem Inventory by Thomas, & Sananda Raj, and Subjective Well-Being Inventory, by Suhany, B, T &Sananda Raj, (2002) and personal information schedule, were used. The data were analyzed using One way ANOVA as well as Duncan test. The result indicated that College students, whose; their father’s Occupation comes in Semi professional category had higher level of mental health, self-actualization, integration, perception of reality, and environmental mastery than others. College students, whose; their father’s Occupation comes in High professional category had higher level of subjective well-being than others. College students, whose; their Mother’s Occupation comes in semi professional category had more mental health, self-actualization, perception of reality, than others. College students, whose; their Mother’s Occupation comes in High professional category had more integration, and environmental mastery than others.
How Parents and Their Children View Media? Comparing Attitudes of Parents and Children towards Media
Authors: Prerna Varma
Published: September 2020

Newspaper to Blog, Broadcast television to Internet television, 35 mm film to digital image, telephone to instant message and tape player to iPod. Our world and our communications technologies continue to change as the traditional mass media of print, radio; television and films have morphed into Web-enabled cell phones, iPods, satellite radios and online news. A number of researches have been done to study the effect of media and its influences. But they fail to acknowledge what particular attitudes people from different age group have towards media. This project attempts to examine and compare the attitudes of parents and children towards mass media and general and traditional and digital media in particular. The findings presented in this report have been concluded from Questionnaire surveys and interviews of 120 subjects in the age group of 9-45 year old. It explores media consumption, knowledge and exposure towards various types of mass media, attitudes towards television and advertising, knowledge and attitude towards government’s intervention in mass media, attitudes towards the changing trends in media and advent of internet, newspaper readership and opinions towards various sources of information particularly newspapers and news channels.
The Effect of Facebook Use on Life Satisfaction and Subjective Happiness of College Students
Authors: Dr. Akanksha Srivastava
Published: September 2020

The aim of the present investigation was to study the effect of Facebook uses on life satisfaction and subjective happiness of college students. 150 {75 male and 75 female} college students age ranged 16-30 from Lucknow city of Uttar-Pradesh were selected through purposive sampling technique. In the present study only those students were participated who are using Facebook. Intensity of Facebook Usage, life satisfaction scale and subjective happiness scale were emailed to all participants. Online information was received by the researcher. Results showed that Females scored highest on both scales, recording higher levels of Facebook usage and happiness than their male counterparts. Older age group students were found to be more intense Facebook users, more satisfied with their lives and happiest than younger age group students. Positive and significant correlation was observed between Facebook usage, life satisfaction and happiness of older age group college students. The bivariate correlations between the participants groups, happiness and life satisfaction were positive. The study was found to be very useful for college students.
Issues and Challenges of Institutionalized Old Age: Case Study Report
Authors: Dr. L. Umadevi  , V. Kavitha Kiran
Published: September 2020

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.
Un-Diagnosed Depression with Suicidal Ideation/Intent among Patients Visiting Medical OPD: Depression in Disguise
Authors: Haleema Khatoon  , Humaira Khalid  , Manal Fatima  , Fareed Aslam Minhas
Published: September 2020

Objective: This study was aimed to calculate the prevalence rate of suicide among the patients who regularly visit medical outdoor with psychosomatic complaints. Method: We have selected 750 patients around the country and screened them for depression and suicide. Result: Data shows that the prevalence of suicide is 14.7% per 10,000 persons and rate of depression is 21.8% per 10,000 persons. Preliminary analysis shows the significant correlation between the variables (0.284**), descriptive statistical analysis yielded gender (0.00), age (0.02) and employment (0.05) as a significant contributing factors towards suicide behavior. Conclusion: It is verdict that the health professionals should have in-depth consideration to the symptoms and should investigate about the patients’ psychological well-being.