Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Durlabh Singh Kowal ¹

Affiliations
1 Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, IN

Abstract

This paper suggests that the emotional labour provides a vital mechanism by which leadership behaviour and leadership skills can be screened in/out for recruitment purpose in Armed Force context. Emotional labour is an essential requisite in most of the professions. Not all individual prefer Armed Force profession as a career because of its unique nature of requirement. This study attempts to correlate the emotional labour and self-esteem of the subjects to the recruitment in services selection boards at screening level. The results show both are required in order to make career in Armed Force. A comparison is also made that between these two which affect the most for screening at Services Selection Boards.

Keywords

Emotional Labour, self-esteem, career, SSB

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Durlabh Singh Kowal ¹, Anam Masood ², Vivek Jha ¹

Affiliations
1 Selection Centre Central, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, IN
2 Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Anxiety is defined as the subjective feeling of apprehension, worry, and tension caused by the perception of situations as psychologically or physically threatening (Spielberger, 1972). Researchers distinguish between trait and state anxiety as dispositional and transitory experience respectively. The test anxiety is an anxiety experienced by the individuals in a test situation which differs on nature of test and purpose of undergoing test. Most of the researchers showed concern in relationship between test anxiety and academic success. This paper investigates relationship between Test Anxiety and Performance at the time of selection of Armed Force Officer Cadre applicants over a battery of projective tests for personality assessment. A sample of 122 male subjects (71 Fresher & 51 Repeater) pooled through purposive sampling had undergone a Battery of Projective Test comprising Thematic Apperception Test, Word Association Test, Situation Reaction Test and Self Description in group testing condition. Test Anxiety Inventory which consists of two subscales viz. Worry and Emotionality, developed by Spielberger et al. (1978) was administered prior to administration of Projective Test Battery. Results revealed significant difference between Test familiarity (Fresher & Repeater) and Emotionality t (107) =2.02, p<.05); Performance and Result χ² (1) = 22.11, p<0.01). However, no significant differences were found between Worry and Test familiarity. Performance, Result; between Emotionality and Performance, Result; between Total Anxiety and Test familiarity. Performance, Result. Similar study can be replicated Interview and Objective tests for assessing personality at the time of recruitment and selection.

Keywords

Test Anxiety, Performance, Results, Test Familiarity, Battery of Projective Tests, Worry, Emotionality.

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