Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Musaddiq Jahan ¹, Sabira Khan ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Women’s College Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Aging is a multidimensional change involving the physical, psychological as well as social aspects for an individual. India has earned the distinction of being a "greying nation" with about 7.7% of its population consisting of older adults. In the last few decades, however researchers have become increasingly interested in psychological well-being (PWB) of elderly persons. Spirituality has been found to be a major predictor of PWB and shapes individuals' perspectives on the world and is expressed in the way that they live life. This study examined the relationship between daily spiritual experiences and PWB among male and female elderly persons of above 65 years of age. Two hundred elderly persons were drawn randomly from various cities and old age homes situated in India. Of these, there were 100 female and 100 male. The daily spiritual experience scale (DSES), (Underwood&Teresi, 2002) and Ryff scale of PWB (Ryff, 1989) were administered on these subjects. Results showed significant positive relationship between DSES and PWB among male and female elderly persons.

Keywords

Aging, Daily Spiritual Experience, Psychological Well-Being, Spirituality.

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Sabira Khan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., IN

Abstract

AIDS is a chronic, life threatening condition caused by the human immunodefieieney virus (HIV). The present study was earned out to evaluate the impact of eounselmg on depression and other behaviors mamfestmg psychological distress amongst HIV/AIDS patients. Beck's depression inventory (BDI) was admimsteredto study depression. Stages of HIV infections were also used to facilitate clmical evaluation. Twenty persons with HIV/AIDS(16 men and 4 women)participated in the study.The subjects were admimstered BDI before counseling, and after counseling programme was completed, pre and post-counseling scores were compared. Certain behaviors like negative emotions, body postures, eye contact, hesitant and unnatural speech, and negative attitude towards others were observed systematically by the researcher and status of these behaviors at pre and post counseling stage was compared, ft was found that at the post-counseling condition scores on depression were significantly lower Marked improvement was also seen in behavioral symptoms of psychological distress.

Keywords

HIV/AIDS, who Clinical Stage, Depression, Psychological Distress Symptoms, Counseling.

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