Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sudha Rathore ¹, Roopa Mathur ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, IIS University Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Parents of children with disability have additional demand than the parents of children without disability. Perhaps because of this reason dysfunctional families are particularly noticeable in medical setting, much of the literature on families with children with disability has approached family stress from a deficit model. Successful, adaptive functioning of families with children with disability has not received sufficient attention. In fact, there is a growing body of knowledge, which indicates that the presence of a family member with a disability may contribute to the strengthening of the entire family unit, as well as contribute positively to the quality of life of individual members of the family. Children with supportive parents have fewer problems and also reported positive change in life. These parents, especially mothers used problem-focused coping, religious-faith and denial-blame. They also reported that as coping increases psychological stress decreases. Social factors play important role in coping. Support by others to the mothers of developmentally delayed children act as the facilitators in carrying up the life ahead. Parents especially mothers of developmentally delayed shows high resilient behavior and high quality of the dyadic relationship.

Keywords

Coping Behavior, Mentally Retarded Children, Mothers.

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Manpreet Ola ¹, Roopa Mathur ²

Affiliations
1 The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN
2 Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Many research studies have shown that marriage is the central relationship for most adults and has wide range of beneficial effects for mental and physical health. We draw the judgment, after looking across many journals and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects specifically for men, but for women instead of marriage, it's the quality of marriage that has beneficial effects for physical and psychological health. Satisfying marriages seem to enhance both men's and women's health, but stressful marriages may have detrimental effects. Instead stressful marriages also may be less healthy for some people than being single; hence this paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of marital relationships and also effects of marital quality on women's health.

Keywords

Marriage, Mental Health and Marital Quality.

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Manpreet Ola ¹, Roopa Mathur ²

Affiliations
1 AIBAS Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The aim of the study was to see the relationship of environmental factors with overall subjective well being and its components. Participants were in the age range of 65-85 years. The participants who did not have a history of any psychiatric and any physical handicap were included in the study. While those who were not fluent in English or Hindi and who were widowed and unmarried were excluded from the study. The data was collected from parts of Rajasthan and Delhi, India. There was a significant difference between males and females with regard to social support and negative life events and its impact on various dimensions of subjective well being. It can be clearly concluded that the environmental influences have a very huge impact on the subjective well being of the elderly. Though the research was conducted on a very small group of the older adults, hence we cannot generalize our results; but despite of small sample size, we should not forget the relevance of these findings and its significance in our lives.

Keywords

Subjective Well-Being, Environmental Factors, Older Adults.

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