Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Promila Batra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Parenting and its styles are well documented in Psychology. It is a process of growing/rearing up the children so as to socialize them as responsible adult citizens. The process is governed by a certain set of rules and behaviours prevalent amongst parents. Parenting is supposed to be a highly fulfilling prophecy, as the process is expected to develop mentally and physically well developed children, who, in turn will support the parents when they grow old, thus serving the society and the nation. However, the matter in the modern scenario is not as simple as it seems to be. The changing scenario has turned parenting into a complex and stressful event, may be due to lack of time and neurotic hurry which are the consequences of prevailing competitiveness. In this era of positive psychology, it has become important to sensitize the common men about the meaning and methods of positive parenting so that the parenting becomes a relaxing event and the processes become easier and rejoicing. It is important and necessary in the interest of progeny. In this context, it is important to delineate the concept of positive parenting in details. The present paper highlights the meaning and methods of positive parenting along with an effort to inculcate a belief that the children are not difficult to carve if positive environments are created and a faith that the environments can be easily controlled in a family.

Keywords

Positive Parenting, Family

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Priyanka ¹, Promila Batra ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, M.A.C.W, Jhajjar, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Psychology, M. D. University, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Recent years have seen a sudden surge in an array of cognitive dysfunctions such as decline in memory, distraction in attention, lack of concentration, and other attention related disorders. Stressful lifestyle in this competitive world may be the ischolar_main cause. Modem therapeutics though has a spectrum of drugs for the management of cognitive dysfunctions, but they are having serious side effects and habit forming nature. Therefore, in the last few years, there has been an exponential growth in the field of herbal medicine, and these drugs are gaining popularity in both developing and developed countries because of their natural origin and less side effects. Present study is also aimed at exploring the role of Shankhapushpi, a herbal plant in attentional processes. A pre-post, placebo-controlled, double-blind, two groups design was used. Sample was selected from college going student volunteers, belonging to an age group of 19-25 years. Total 50 subjects were contacted and tested upon their span of attention. 30 subjects having a moderate span of attention were selected and divided into 2 groups of 15 Ss each. One group was experimental group, in which the subjects received Shankhapushpi powder (3.5 gm per day with honey followed by aglassofmilk) for 10 days. Other group was the control group, administered with the same dose of ordinary powder (made with coriander, spinach, fenugreek etc.) in the same manner. Two types of attentional processes i.e. Alternating, and Divided were taken. The subjects were tested on these tasks before starting the administration of both powders and immediately after stopping the administration. Obtained scores were analyzed by using't' test. The results indicated that ten days administration was not sufficient to leave a significant impact of Shankhapushpi on any type of attention. Higher doses need to be tested before drawing any generalization.

Keywords

Shankhapushpi, Attentional Processes, Students.

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Savita Ahlawat ¹, Promila Batra ², Anirudh Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, F. C. College for Women, Hisar, IN
2 Department of Psychology, M.D.U. Rohtak, IN

Abstract

Music has been found to increase the productivity as well performance in industrial sectors. The studies in relation to academics are however, very sparse yet. In day to day life music is common and often unavoidable. The students are fond of playing music while studying. But the effects cannot be the same for everyone. Keeping such factors in mind, it was felt highly relevant to study the effect of music on arithmatic task amongst different personality types, i.e., extroverts and introverts. The present study was a 3x2 factorial (repeated measure) design to investigate the effect of music on arithmetic performance amongst extroverts and introverts having an age range of 14-16 years. The sample of 27 students (18 extroverts and 9 introverts) was screened out from a school of Nangloi (Delhi) after administering the introversion and extroversion inventory by Aziz and Agnihotry. After this, 3 different sets of arithmetic ability tasks were standardized and administered on these subjects in three different musical conditions (silence, instrumental and vocal). Errors and time taken were recorded. The results were analyzed by 2-way ANOVA followed by DRT indicated that music enhanced the performance in terms of speed much more than in terms of errors. Regarding speed, the type of music did not affect the extroverts and introverts differently, but regarding the errors, introverts were the gainer i.e. they committed lesser errors. It was also found that any type of music was better than silence condition. So music can be used as a facilitating agent in different domains of life.

Keywords

Personality, Music, Arithmatic Performance.

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