Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

A. V. S. Madnawat ¹, V. K. Bhardwas ², S. Bhardwas ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, UOR, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN
2 Academy Psychologie©, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The cardinal objective of the present study was to understand the structure of set of variables viz. Gender, Types of Pranayama, Regularity of practice, Life Skills, General Mental Health Life Skills and Eco-sensory Consciousness and to reduce measures representing communalities and to reduce the data set to a more manageable size retaining much of the original information as much as possible and to understand and extract common pure and pure and relatively independent factors, if any underlying it. A purposive sample of 360 Literate Regular and Irregular Pranayama Practitioners from across diverse data with balanced number of Males and Females (25 to 60 years) was selected from Patanjali Yogapeeth, Haridwar and Yoga/Pranayama shivara organized in NCR and Rajasthan to sample the variables Gender Type of Pranayama, Regularity of Practice, General Mental Health, Regularity of Practice, Life Skills, and Eco-sensory Consciousness. Mental Health Inventory (Jagdish & Srivastava, 1983), Life Skills Questionnaire (Clements, 2004), Ecological Attitude and Cognitive Scale (Rajamanickam, 1996) were used. SPSS 17.0 was employed to compute Factor Analysis Using Principal Component Method with Varimax Rotation in an attempt to reduce the obtained R-matrix down to its underlying dimensions by looking at which variables seem to cluster in a meaningful way. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was computed on the 23 items with Orthogonal Rotation (Varimax). The KaiserMeyer-Olkin measure verified the sampling adequacy for the analysis and all KMO values for individual items were well above the acceptable limit of .5. Bartlett's Test of Sphericity x2 indicated that correlations between items were sufficiently large for PCA. An initial analysis was run to obtain eigenvalues for each component in the data. Three components had eigenvalues over Kaiser's criterion of 1 and in combination explained 0.987% of the variance. The Scree Plot was clear and showed and justified retaining three components. The screen Plot revealed three factors. The first factor following Lexicon Hypothesis labeled as Relationships (r-.943), and Integration of Personality (r-.907); explaining a total of 84.116% of variance. These observations suggest that increase in any of the consistent variance of the factor or measure is related to increase in rest of the variance. The second factor following Lexicon Hyperthesis labeled as Typosyoga consisted of type of Pranayam (r=.0257) and Oral Obligation (r=.018). Rest of measures explain a total of 4.566% of variance. These oservations suggest that both measures are positively correlated, And the third factor consisted of Gender following Lexiocon Hypothesis labeled as Genus (r=-.257) ecplaning a total of 4.397 of variance. In sum, all three factors emerged to explain a total of 93.080% variance, and the three factors emerged to be relatively independent. Here, some crucial observations desrve mention. The Oral Obligation measure loaded significantly on the second factor(r.987). Similarly, the measure loaded significantly on the third factor (r=.002); however, however based on theory (higher loadings) the same is included in the second. All factors were found to be relatively independent. The findings are vindicated by the studies of Kail and Cavanaugh (2007); Mehta (2012). Barlow (2005), Brown et al.(2005), Cowen (2010), Salmon et al.(2009).

Keywords

Pranayama, Regularity of Practice, Type of Pranayama, Life Skills, Gender, Mental Health.

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S. Choudhary ¹, A. V. S. Madnawat ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Singhania University Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, IN
2 Department of Psychology University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN

Abstract

The present study aspired to investigate whether Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills are significant predictors of Mental Health and Happiness in Government and Private School Teachers. It was hypothesized that Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills will be significant predictors of Mental Health and Happiness in Government and Private School Teachers. A purposive sample of 400 3rd Grade School Teachers 200 from Government Schools and 200 from Private Schools from Rajasthan State was selected. The Predictor Variables were measured by Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) (Hyde, Pethe, & Dhar, 2001), NEO-PI (R) (McCrae & Costa, 2003), Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (Singh et. al, 1981) and Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) (Folkman & Lazarus, 1986) whereas the Criterion/Outcome Variables were measured by Mental Health Inventory (MHI) (Singh, & Srivastava, 1983) and Happiness Scale (Argyle and Hills, 2002). The Correlational Research Design along with Regression Model was employed. The Multiple Regression Analysis was computed to investigate whether Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills are significant predictors of Mental Health and Happiness in Government and Private School Teachers. It was empirically provide that Emotional Intelligence was a significant positive predictor whereas Presumptive Life Stress was a significant negative predictor of Mental Health and Happiness in Government and Private School Teachers. The results are interpreted in the light of existing researches.

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S. Choudhary ¹, A. V. S. Madnawat ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology Singhania University, Rajasthan, IN
2 Department of Psychology University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The present study aspired to investigate whether Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills are significant predictors of Positive Self-evaluation and Perception of Reality dimensions of Mental Health in Government and Private School Teachers. It was hypothesized that Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills will be significant predictors of Positive Self-evaluation and Perception of Reality dimensions of Mental Health in Government and Private School Teachers. A purposive sample of 400 3rd Grade School Teachers 200 from Government Schools and 200 from Private Schools from Rajasthan State was selected. The Predictor Variables were measured by Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) (Hyde, Pethe,&Dhar, 2001), NEO-PI (R) (McCrae&Costa, 2003), Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (Singh et al., 1981) and Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) (Folkman&Lazarus, 1986) whereas the Criterion/Outcome Variables were measured by Mental Health Inventory (MHI) (Singh&Srivastava, 1983). The Correlational Research Design along with Regression Model was employed. The Multiple Regression Analysis was computed to investigate whether Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress and Coping Skills are significant predictors of Positive Self-evaluation and Perception of Reality dimensions of Mental Health in Government and Private School Teachers. It was empirically provide that Emotional Intelligence was a significant positive predictor whereas Presumptive Life Stress was a significant negative predictor of Positive Self-evaluation and Perception of Reality dimensions of Mental Health in Government and Private School Teachers. The results are interpreted in the light of existing researches.

Keywords

Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Presumptive Life Stress, Perception of Reality, Mental Health

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Kavita Gautam ¹, A. V. S. Madnawat ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Coping is conceptualized as thoughts and actions or emotions, cognitions, and behaviors which an individual engages in to reduce, ameliorate or adjust to different stressors. Life satisfaction is one of the indicators of apparent quality of life. Together with indicators of mental and physical health, it indicates how well people thrive. Having effective coping mechanisms may be one of the most important predictors of well being across life span. Applications of coping strategies can increase a person's level of happiness. The aim of present study was to know the different coping strategies used by college girls of different faculties and their level of life satisfaction. The purpose was to seek whether there would be any difference in coping strategies used by students of Arts and Science Faculty and if there was any relation between coping strategy used and the level of life satisfaction.The coping strategies scale and life satisfaction scale were used for data collection. The sample comprised of 100 students (50 girls each) from Arts and Science faculty of Government Girls College Chomu, Jaipur. Statistical techniques of Pearson correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data. Significant difference was found in one of the coping strategy used by students of different faculty and significant relationship which was negative in both cases was seen between coping strategies of cognitive approach and cognitive avoidance and level of life satisfaction.

Keywords

Coping, Cognitive Approach, Cognitive Avoidance, Life Satisfaction.

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Amrita Kadela ¹, A. V. S. Madnawat ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The present study attempts to see the relationship of Health, Happiness, Personality, Emotion work and Perceived Life Stress with Compassion among Resident Doctors of Government Hospitals. A sample of 100 Resident Doctors from Jaipur and Kota Districts, Rajasthan was administered in the study. Pearson's Correlation was used to analyze the data. It can be concluded that compassion was significantly correlated with health, happiness, personality, emotion work and presumptive life stress among resident doctors of government hospitals.

Keywords

Health, Happiness, Personality, Emotion Work, Perceived Life Stress, Compassion.

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