Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

S. Subramanian ¹, I. Dewaram Francis Raj ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

People are conditioned to suppress their hurt child within oneself in order to avoid the pain and by repeating such things continuously, the free child may also be suppressed and subsequently people do not feel the joy either. The intervention on Healing the Inner Child (HIC) in oneself targets the experience of the joy and happiness by realizing the limitless potential of Healing the Inner Child is becoming popular among the therapist. The present study was aimed at exploring the extent to which the efficacy of the Intervention on Healing the Inner Child (HIC) by incorporating the four steps techniques developed by Bradshaw (1992). A repeated testing (pre-post) design was used to collect data on two psychological aspects Emotional Intelligence and Adjustments levels from 68 college students who had attended a three week training intervention programme on Healing the Inner Child (HIC) at two interval periods before and after the training period. The results revealed that the Intervention did have a positive effect and enhance the various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence and Adjustment levels.

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V. Veera Balaji Kumar ¹, S. Subramanian ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

The present paper analyses the relationship between value priorities of individuals and their wellbeing utilizing Schwartz values model and Carol ryff's Psychological wellbeing [PWB] scale. Even though psychological wellbeing has been studied in relation with personality variables, hardly research studies conducted linking PWB and personal values. The study was conducted over a sample of 876 students (429 male and 447 female drawn from various colleges in Madurai, TN, India. Results revealed that the male participants had significantly lower PWB than female participants.. This difference might be partly due to females espousing higher self-direction, security values and lower hedonism and stimulation values. Overall, it was found out that espousing hedonistic values provides significantly lesser psychological wellbeing. PWB scores had significantly positive correlation with values of Tradition and Self-direction. Analysis of higher-order personal values revealed that there is a significant negative correlation between self enhancement value domain and almost all dimensions of PWB such as autonomy, personal growth, environmental mastery, self-acceptance and total PWB. On the other hand, It was noticed that there was a significant positive correlations were found between self-transcendence values and psychological well being domain of personal growth. In sum, the results showed that hedonistic values provides "psychological ill being", whereas espousing values like self-direction and tradition provides greater psychological wellbeing.

Keywords

Psychological Wellbeing,personal Values ,happiness,eudaimonia

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S. R. Dhanalakshmi ¹, V. Kanagasabapathy ², T. Santhanam ³, S. Subramanian ⁴

Affiliations
1 Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, IN
2 GLRA, Chennai, IN
3 SDS Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chennai, IN
4 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

The experience of being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS is extremely stressful and therefore HIV and psychiatric diagnoses are often co-morbid Over the past decade, significant medical advances have ensured better treatment for people living with HIV but significant challenges remain in dealing with the depression coping with the disease. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of coping enhancement interventions on ways of coping and depression among People Living with HIV (PLHIV). Quasi-experimental study was conducted among adult PLHIV (aged 18 years and above) attending a Community Care Centre (CCC) at Perambulur in Tamil Nadu. The study participants were selected from the PLHIV registered at the Centre with in 2 years of the commencement of the study. Coping was assessed using'Concern and Coping with HIV scale (Vosvick, Martin, Smith,&Jenkins, 2008) CCHIV Scale. Depression was assessed using Hamilton Depression Scale. Coping enhancement intervention included group counseling on health, education and financial issues and also included a step-wise problem solving process where in PLHIVs major issues in health problems, educational problems, and financial problems were provided with probable options to solve identified problems and followed up. Specifically, it addressed physical health issues such as education about HIV/AIDS, nutrition, adherence to medications, psychological issues such as worries related to HIV, stigma, disclosure, anger, etc. and livelihood concerns such as education, finance, hopes for the future of their family-the predominant therapies in the coping intervention was cognitive behavioral. The post intervention assessment interview was administered 6 months after the intervention. The intervention was effective in improving adaptive coping behaviour and decreasing the severity of depressive symptoms. As a result of the intervention,there was a decline in the maladaptive coping behavior but it was not found to be statistically significant. Increasing age and being illiterate were associated with higher level of improvement in positive growth from pre to post intervention (R²=0.56; p<0.01). Thus, interventions to enhance coping can contribute significantly to the psychological well-being of PLHIV.

Keywords

HIV, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Intervention, Depression, Coping, Tamil Nadu.

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S. Subramanian ¹, J. Kruthika ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Though the OD intervention strategies targeting at enhancing organizational culture and organizational commitment across all the levels of management are gaining much interest, the emergence of subculture at each level with in the same organization poses a greater challenge to HR professionals as it adversely affects the interpersonal effectiveness. Data obtained from 40 operators at the shop floor and 40 managerial staff of private enterprise which involves in manufacturing casting steels on two key factors-organizational culture and organizational commitment revealed that the operator category tend to exhibit high scores, sigmnificantly in the following dimensions of Organizational Culture viz confrontation, trust,authority,proaction and collaboration than the managerial staff Similarly, the operators tend to have high levels of affective, continuance and normative commitment than the managerial staff As the low levels operator category of employees, contrary to expectation, exhibit more organizational commitment and organizational culture than the managerial staff, the implications for designing suitable training interventions targeting at managerial staff are suggested.

Keywords

Organizational Culture, Organizational Commitment, Executives, Operatives.

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