Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Kainat Rizvi ¹, Shah Alam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IN

Abstract

This paper is designed to study the impact of employees' training and organizational change on affective commitment of office workers. The study was conducted on 200 private and public sector employees. Sample was drawn by using purposive sampling. The population belongs to an age group of 30 to 50 years. Only male population was considered in this paper in order to control the gender effect. Human Resource Development Scale developed by Shawkat and Ansari (1998) based on 12 dimensions and 40 items. Out of 40 items, only the items of 2 dimensions (viz; training and organizational change) were administered to measure affective commitment. Simultaneously, organizational commitment scale developed by Shah and Ansari (1998) consisted of 15 items and three dimensions was also administered. From 15 items only 5 items of one dimension were administered by the investigator to measure affective organizational commitment. 'Two-way ANOVA' was used to find out the main and interactional effect of training and organizational change on the affective commitment. The results revealed that only training has found its significant influence on affective commitment but organizational change, main and interacted with training did not influence the affective commitment of office workers.

Keywords

Training, Organizational Change, Affective Commitment, Public & Private Office Work.

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Rashida Masrat ¹, Shah Alam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Adolescence is the period of transition between childhood to adulthood that involved biological, cognitive, and socio emotional changes. It is referred as a period of transition and challenge for children and their families both. Adolescence is the most vulnerable age for development, when the child once entering in this stage requires intensive readjustment to school, social and family life. While many adolescents experience anxiety, unpleasant or strange feeling. Gender is the biggest problem in present scenario where female adolescents are discriminated in front of male adolescents. It is duty of the parents to encourage their children to take part in all activities such as physical, social, spiritual etc., so that their wellbeing will be increased. Well-being is a state of being with others, where human needs are met, where one can act meaningfully to pursue one's goals, and where one enjoys a satisfactory quality of life. Well-being can be defined as an expression of life satisfaction, as a way to influence the quality of society and its citizens. The aim of the present study is to examine the gender difference among male and female adolescents. The sample of 50 male and 50 female adolescents (N=100) were randomly selected from A.M.U schools. The age ranges from 18-21 years. For the present study the scale of wellbeing developed by Jagsharanbir Singh and Dr. Asha Gupta, (2001) was administered on the participants. The findings revealed that there is a significant difference between male and female adolescents on wellbeing. Significant difference was also found between male and female adolescents on different dimensions of wellbeing such as physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual.

Keywords

Well-Being, Gender Differences, Adolescents.

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Falak Nesheen ¹, Shah Alam ¹, Tehseen Nazir ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Guidance & Counselling, Ankara University, TR

Abstract

The most challenging situation nowadays adolescents go through that is deteriorating their daily living, is Emotional abuse, i.e; a pattern of behavior that impairs a child's development or sense of self-worth. Experiencing abuse or an attack can lead to serious mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental disorder. And violating the mental health of an adolescent may disrupt his normal way of life. Thus the basic aim of this paper is to explore how the emotional abuse is related with the mental health of an adolescent. The paper reports the excruciations that adolescents go through right from their childhood and explain the aftereffects of these nuisances in their adolescent period. The paper tries to highlight the different forms of abuses and their direct effect on the mental health of adolescents. The different forms of mental health disorders that have their connection with emotional abuse and the physiological changes within an adolescent caused due to emotional abuse are also the matter of concern in this paper. The paper concludes with the measures that are helpful in curing the mental health problems caused due to emotional abuse disrupting the day to day life of adolescents. If emotional abuse couldn't be controlled it may have serious effects on adolescent's life and the most important the normal mental health of adolescents will be broken up.

Keywords

Emotional Abuse, Wiping-Out, Adolescents, Mental Health.

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