Vol.11 (1) - 2021 , IJPSR
ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AND SELF-REGULATION AMONG THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Bommareddy, S*., Ravula, S.**, Jain, R.***
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Background: Undergraduate students are expected to face demands of academic and environmental changes. This group is vulnerable to adopt maladaptive methods to overcome temporarily and regulate themselves in this period of transition.
Purpose: Purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between Academic Procrastination and Self-Regulation among 2nd and 4th year undergraduate students pursuing traditional fields of engineering, medicine and the contemporary field of design/ fine arts. Sample the current study was conducted on a sample of 430, 2nd and 4th year undergraduate students pursuing engineering, medicine and design/ fine arts. The Academic Procrastination Scale (McCloskey, 2011) was administered to measure academic procrastination levels. The Self-Regulation Questionnaire (Miller & Brown, 1999) was administered to assess various self-regulatory processes through self-report. Findings: Results of the t-test showed no significant difference in the levels among the total sample of undergraduates between men and women. Results of ANOVA showed a significant difference in the levels among the total sample of undergraduates based on the streams. There is also a significant difference in the levels of the variables among the 4th year students and also present in 2nd year students based on streams. Correlational analysis showed a significant negative relationship between Academic Procrastination and Self-Regulation
Keywords: Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation, Undergraduate students.
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ATTITUDE LEVEL OF SECONDARY AND HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS
Deesis Aryal
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Background: Attitude can be conceptualized as perception or affect that indicate whether a person likes or dislikes something (Havelka 2003; Simpson et al. 1994).Schools and college's vision is to provide quality education to the students and developing a positive attitude. It is important to know the level of student's attitude. When the students have an unfavorable attitude, it results negative feelings, unworthiness and different psychological problems. Sample: Sample consisted of 240 students. Results revealed that majority of the respondent have favorable attitude towards country, discipline, life and humanity, religion and unfavorable attitude towards teacher and parents. Results: A correlation study showed a positive and significant highly co-relation between teacher and parents with discipline, discipline with life and humanity and country, life and humanity with country and country with religion.
Keywords: Secondary and Higher secondary students, Attitude
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FORDYCE'S HAPPINESS TRAINING ON THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND LIFE QUALITY OF SINGLE IRANIAN WOMEN LIVING IN DUBAI
Fariba Ghaffari1, Supervisor: Dr. Majid Saffarinia2
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The main objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Fordyce's happiness training on the psychological well-being and life quality of single Iranian women living in Dubai. The statistical population of this study included all single women covered by Children's Foundation in Dubai. It should be noted that by the end of 2010, the population of Iranian residents is estimated to be about 400,000 people, and the population of single Iranian women is 75. The statistical sample of this study was 30 single Iranian women living in Dubai who were randomly and simply selected and placed in two experimental and control groups. The methods used in this study were the World Health Organization Life Quality Questionnaire and the Ryff's Psychological Well-being Questionnaire. To analyze the data, multiple covariance analysis method was used with SPSS22 software package. The results of multiple covariance analysis showed that happiness training for single women had an effect on improving their life quality and psychological well-being by 0.97 (p 0.05). Based on the findings, Fordyce's happiness training can be used to improve the life quality and psychological well-being of single women in consulting centers and psychological services.
Keywords: happiness, Fordyce, psychological well-being, life quality, single women
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RESILIENCE, COPING STYLES AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF DOCTORS
DURING COVID -19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
SHRADHA BHAIR1 & DR.AKASH MAHATO2
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unpredictable strain on frontline healthcare workers worldwide, included among them are also doctors. Exposure to COVID-19 patients especially among healthcare staff working in emergency services and intensive care units results in impacting their mental health. Thus, it is important that mental health of healthcare workers is protected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: Thus, the purpose of the study is to identify the level of resilience, major coping styles and quality of life of doctors on COVID duty. Sample: Participants chosen for the study were 60 doctors assigned with COVID duty (in ICU= 30 and in OPD =30). Tools: Brief COPE was used to identify coping styles, Brief resilience scale, to identify the level of resilience and The World Health Organization Quality Of Life - BREF for assessing quality of life.Results: Findings suggest that there was difference in resilience and quality of life between the two study groups, but not between coping styles between the two groups. Therefore, the study concluded that resilience, coping styles and quality of life is impacted among doctors who closely deal with patients infected by corona virus.
Keywords: Resilience, Coping , Quality of life, Doctors , COVID-19
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Psychological Counselling need among secondary and higher secondary students
Deesis Arval
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Background: Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals. Adoles- cents are concerned about their educational adjustment and achievement, their career decision, future education, fulfilling financial needs and employment settlements. Purpose: This study aimed to assess need of psychological counselling among secondary and higher secondary stu- dents. A total of 246 students were selected as sample. Psychology counseling need assessment developed by B. L. Chouhan and Gunjan G. Arora was used. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were used for data analysis. Findings: The result shows that majority of the students 43.9% felt high need for psychological counselling. There is a very high need of applied psychological counselling for girls.
Keywords:Psychological, Counselling, Secondary and Higher Secondary Students
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DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES IMPACT ON SLEEPAMONG UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN HYDERABAD
Genevive Angela David
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Background: As the pandemic continued to unfold itself globally and in our communities, it was not just the medical condition, but it affected the population in social, emotional and psychological aspects too. This affected every one of us, bringing in a lot of change among the undergraduate women as it not only affected academics but overall personality (WHO, 2020). This was a quantitative study with a purpose of understanding Demographic variables and its association with Sleep among undergraduate women in Hyderabad. Sample: The sample size was 100 and the data was collected from women's colleges of Hyderabad with simple random technique. It was a self administered questionnaire measured with Likert Scale a standardized tool comprising of Demographic variables with GHQ-28 that measured 4 dimensions of General Health. The focus was on Sleep. The results showed high level of sleep in the age group of 21 & above, who are unmarried graduate women belonging to BA & BSC streams of education and those from the Backward as well as belonging to the others as per the study. The results also show that there is no association of Sleep and the following demographic variables such as age, marital status, education and social status
Keywords:Undergraduate women, Sleep General Health
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, PRESSURE
MANAGEMENT AND DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
K.Vanamma1 and K. Chandraiah2
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Background: emotions have transformed from being primarily considered distracting elements of cognitive process to being perceived as essential experience of human being offering constructive information on every day problem solving. Purpose: to examine the relationship between and among variables viz., emotional intelligence, pressure management , type of personality, age , education and job satisfaction. Tools : Pressure Management Indicator and Type A&B Behavior Scale: Developed by "Stephen Williams and Cooper C.L"(1998). Emotional Intelligence Scale: Developed by (Dalip Singh,2001). Results : there is a positive and significant relationship between age and job satisfaction; age and experience which can be considered as age increasing , job satisfaction and continue to work(experience) in the organization. It is also found that experience is significantly correlated to age, experience and job satisfaction. Further, the table also indicates that there is a significant and positive correlation between education and job satisfaction and pressure management. It is also found that Job satisfaction is positively and significantly correlated to age experience, education and personality.
Keywords: emotional intelligence pressure management personality type teachers
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DEVELOPMENTAND STANDARDIZATION OF BRIEFADOLESCENT- PARENT RELATIONSHIP SCALE (BAPRS)
Sukanya Biswas1, Dr. Poonam Sharma2
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Abstract: The Brief Adolescent- Parent Relationship Scale (BAPRS) is an instrument developed to assess parents' views of their relationship with their adolescent and vice-versa. The instrument consists of 25 items with an adolescent (13 to 16 years) form of 13 items and parent's form of 12 items. The item development was limited to content that would be appropriate for adolescents in this age range. It is rated on a five point Likert scale. BAPRS can be used in educational settings and by all practitioners involved in adolescents' assessment. Cronbach's coefficient alpha was used to calculate internal consistency reliability estimates for the self-efficacy 0.831 for adolescents and 0.895 for parents, constituting an acceptable to excellent level of reliability. Guttman Split-Half Coefficient reliability of 0.826 for adolescents and 0.906 for parents has been reported. Collected data was divided into two halves (on odd even basis). After two weeks the scale was again administered on same subjects. Then coefficient of correlation computed between first and second test was found to be 0.831 for adolescents and 0. 895 for parents which is significant at 0.01 level. The construct validity of the scale is high.
Keywords:Adolescent, Parent, Adolescent- Parent Relationship Scale
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DISTRESS DISCLOSURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG
UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING COVID-19: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY
Roshini sneha. S1, Deepika Nambiar2*
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Background: Distress disclosure, a process of sharing one's negative experiences and feelings with others is an important and adaptive way of regulating one's emotions which helps an individual to deal with stressful situations in their lives. The effect of Covid-19 pandemic was vast spread effecting multiple dimensions of an individual's functioning, the most prevalent one being their social functioning. Lack of human contact made it difficult for individuals to share their worries with others making it difficult for them to deal with their stressors. One of the most effected groups was that of students who due to the pandemic were confined to home environment thereby reducing their channels to deal with distress. Purpose: The current study focussed on identifying levels of distress disclosure and psychological wellbeing among undergraduate college students of Bangalore city in the age range of 18- 21 years during COVID-19. Further, the study explored if disclosure of distress had any relationship with students psychological wellbeing. A sample of 278 college students were selected using the purposive sampling technique. Sample: Data was collected through online format using two validated research instruments namely: Distress Disclosure Index and Ryff's Psychological well-being scale. Results showed presence of moderate level of distress disclosure and psychological well- being among students during the current pandemic. Results: No significant relationship was found between student's distress disclosure and psychological well- being. However, significant gender difference was observed in these two variables, wherein females had better distress disclosure and psychological well- being compared to males.
Keywords: distress disclosure; psychological well- being, covid 19; pandemic
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GANDHIJI AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Dr. M. CHANDRAIAH
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Gandhiji never wrote anything on ecology and environment. But we can find Gandhiji as a man who practiced the principles of environmental ethics in his life. Gandhiji preached and practiced environmental ethics, based on the ethical principles of Indian philosophy. As an ardent opponent of anthropocentic concept of nature, all his writing were concerned with man's attitude. He formulated the seven sins of mankind, which is equally considered as forming his basis of environmentalism.
Keywords: Academic Procrastination
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