Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sandeep Singh ¹, Sunil Saini ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted on a sample of 800 students with age range of (15 to 21). The basic objective of the study was to know the correlates of HIV risk perception among youth population. The tests of HIV Risk Perception (Singh & Saini, 2010). HIV Knowledge (Carey et al., 1997), Impulsivity (Barratt,1994), and Sexual Sensation Seeking (Kahchman et al., 1994) were used in the study. It has been observed in the findings that HIV risk perception is significantly correlated with the variables of HIV Knowledge (-.32), Impulsivity (.18), and Sexual sensation seeking Behaviour (.22).

Keywords

HIV Risk Perception, HIV Knowledge, Seeking.

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Sandeep Singh ¹, Sunil Saini ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Indian Association of Health, Research and Welfare, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Everyday newspapers, magazines and media channels are full of news of robberies, kiddnappings, rape and murders. Crime reports are especially broadcasting on news channels indicating that crime is everywhere and all efforts to thwart it seem to be failing. Despite all governmental rule and regulations, crime is at alarming stage all-around. Viewing police records in certain areas, it was found that there are some villages where crime rate is very low and in others it is very high. Reasons for committing a crime may include greed, anger, jealously, revenge, pride and now-a-days one more thing that is emerging is youths from high profile families do crime for entertainment and false recognition. Investigations have shown that youths engage in crime activities for excitement, admiration and rewards. School bullying, domestic violence, community violence, religious masscrace, strikes, etc. have made social thinkers, police administration, policy makers and social scientist to unearthen the ischolar_main causes of such activities. The present study was conducted on a sample of 450 persons (75 from each village) covering the six villages (three low crime and three high crime profile villages) of district Hisar, Haiyana. The data was collected randomly and no criteria were fixed. A survey questionnaire was used to assess the attitudinal aspects related to social acceptance of crime, attitude towards alcohol and drug abuse, police, politics, gambling, youth attitude towards crime. lt has been observed in the findings that attitudinal influences potentially affect the crime proneness in rural areas.

Keywords

Crime, Attitudinal Influences.

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Sandeep Singh ¹, Sunil Saini ¹, Neelam Goyal ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study examines the factor structure of Peer Pressure Scale (PPS) for a group of 446 adolescents in the age group of 16-19. Initially 53 items were selected and item analyses, item discrimination and factor analysis was conducted. Based on experts' comments, primary analysis and factor analysis, few inappropriate items were discarded and 29 items were retained for final version of the scale. The reliability co-efficient Cronbach's alpha was calculated .82 for the final version of the Peer Pressure Scale. The final version of the scale comprised of four factors with 55% of variance. More future researches are suggested on different sample for reliability and improvement of the factor structure of the scale.

Keywords

Peer Pressure, Reliability, Validity, Factor Structure.

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