Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Shailja Rana ¹, N. K. Chadha ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, IN

Abstract

Tremendous research has been conducted in industrial/organizational psychology to study the factors that improve work performance of the employees. Most researchers study variables like working conditions, salary, organizational culture and their impact on the performance of the employees. Very little research has been conducted to study the impact of optimism on the work performance of the employees. This paper is an effort to review the factors that lead to an optimistic explanatory style, impact of optimism on performance as well as measures to increase the optimism of employees.

Keywords

Optimism, Job Performance, Learned Optimism, Increasing Optimism.

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Shailja Rana ¹, N. K. Chadha ¹, Deepesh Rathore ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, IN

Abstract

There has been a tremendous increase in the suicide rates of adolescents in India. The etiology for suicide includes various factors like psychiatric illness, financial crunch and unemployment. Though many efforts have been made to reduce the suicide rates, they have not been very effective due to lack of empirical data regarding the cause of committing suicide. An effort has been made to review the causes of increased suicide rates among adolescents in India and suggest certain policy recommendations to curb the suicides.

Keywords

Suicide, Etiology, Prevention, Recommendations.

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