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Kamini C. Tanwar ¹, Nitika Grover ¹, Pratima Gulia ¹

Affiliations
1 Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Almost every day we describe and assess the personalities of the people around us. The present paper includes two different dimension of personality, i.e., Depressive and Spiritual Personality. People with depressive personality have a generally gloomy outlook on life, themselves, the past and the future. On the other hand, spiritual personality can be defined as the one who knows how to anchor his lifestyles around his noble attitude towards others and follow the path of moral rectitude. The main objective of the present study is to examine: a) difference between post-graduate male and female students on depressive personality and spiritual dimension of personality; and b) difference between management and non-management students on depressive and spiritual dimension of personality. The Beck Depressive Inventory, developed by Beck, Steer, and Brown (1996) and Spiritual Personality Inventory, developed by Husain, Luqman, and Jahan (2012) were used to collect the data. The sample was collected from 100 P.G. students (50 males and 50 females) among different professional courses like M.B.A, M.tech, M.Sc etc at Amity University, Gurgaon in Haryana. Data was collected by purposive sampling method and analyzed by t-test for finding the comparison between the groups. The result indicates that there is a) significant difference between males and females on depressive dimension of personality and b) significant difference between management and non-management students on spiritual dimension of personality.

Keywords

Personality, Spirituality, Depression

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Sona Raghuvanshi ¹, Kamini C. Tanwar ¹

Affiliations
1 Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study aims to compare criminals and non-criminals on the basis of psychological factors like depression, guilt-feeling, hostility, and conflict over hostility. The study was conducted on 200 respondents including 100 criminals and 100 non-criminals. The criminals were selected from the four important jails of Bihar namely Patna, Buxar, Gaya and Bhagalpur and equal number of non-criminals (persons having non-criminals record) were also selected from the same four towns of Bihar mentioned above. The sample was incidental-cum-purposive one and included only married males in the age group of 21 to 40, who had minimum education up to seventh standard. The scales used were (1) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, Hindi adaptation by Arora et al., 1988), and Questionnaire of Hostility, Guilt and Conflict (Q-HGC, Sowaid & Singh, 1975). The data obtained were analyzed by t-test. The hypotheses formulated were: (1) the criminals would score higher on depression level than the non-criminals. (2) The criminals would score higher on hostility as compared to the non-criminals. (3) The criminal group of subject would score lower on guilt feeling toward hostility than their non-criminal counterparts and, (4) the criminal group of subjects would score high on conflict over feeling of hostility than the non-criminal group of subjects. The findings confirmed all the four hypotheses.

Keywords

Depression, Hostility, Guilt Feeling, Conflict Over Hostility.

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