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Sabiha Baby ¹, Mohammad Akram ², M. Ilyas Khan ²

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

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases caused 2.3 million deaths in 1990; this is projected to double by the year of 2020. The present attempt is a comparative study of hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) patients on stress-related symptoms. Data consisted of 200 patients, of these there were 100 hypertensive and 100 CAD patients. Patients were drawn from OPD of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JNMCH), AMU, Aligarh. Stress symptoms checklist was used to measure different types of stress namely, mental physical, emotional and social. Independent t-test was used to examine the differences between hypertensive and CAD patients on stress-related symptoms. Result indicates that, there were no significant differences between the mean scores of hypertensive and CAD disease patients on mental, physical and emotional symptoms of stress whereas significant difference was found between comparative groups on social symptoms of stress. Both the groups of patients were not differing significantly on overall stress symptoms. It was concluded that stress plays a significant role in susceptibility, progress and outcomes of cardiovascular diseases (i.e., hypertension and CAD). 

Keywords

Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Stress-Related Symptoms.

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Mohammad Akram ¹, Sabiha Baby ¹, M. Ilyas Khan ¹

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

Abstract

The present research paper was undertaken to examine the level of academic stress and overall achievement motivation among science and social science adolescents and their interrelationship. For that purpose, 100 adolescents of class XII were selected randomly from Senior Secondary School (boys) Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Among them 50 adolescents were from science stream and 50 were from social science stream. Student Stress Scale and Achievement Motivation Scale were used for measuring academic stress and achievement motivation of adolescents respectively. Results indicated that stressful worries and overall academic stress were significantly higher among science adolescents than in social science adolescents. Stressful worries were the significant predictors of achievement motivation among science adolescents whereas poor administration and inadequate academic environment in college were significant predictor of achievement motivation among social science adolescents.

Keywords

Academic Stress, Achievements Motivation, Adolescents.

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M. Ilyas Khan ¹, Mohammad Akram ¹, Sabiha Baby ¹

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

Abstract

The present paper examines the level of aggression between professional and nonprofessional courses students. The sample was comprised all students of different departments of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. The sample consisting of 50 (25 males and 25 females) professional courses (BUMS, MBA & Engg.) students and 50 (25 males and 25 females) non-professional courses (Arts, Social sciences and theology) students.  The Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) has been used, and t- test has been applied. Analysis shows that professional and non-professional courses students were significantly differ on total scores of aggression  as well as on Physical and Verbal factors of aggression non-professional students were also found to be more aggressive than professional students whereas on Anger and  Hostility both professional and non-professional were more or less similar. Further, no significant gender difference were found on total aggression as well as males and females subjects were not differ on different subscales of aggression.

Keywords

Anger, Hostility, Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression.

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