Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

A. Velayudhan ¹, S. Srividya ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

Climate change, global warming, deforestation, depletion of ecological reserves are some of the challenges that human race hold in the future. India, being one of the most populous countries, with diversified ecological resources is at cross roads. It is utilizing environmental resources for massive development trajectory on one hand and being a casualty of the environmental problems that arise hence forth. It must be understood that the scientific solutions to the environmental problems cannot be discounted without a study on human values, beliefs, and attitudes. The present study aims at studying the model of environmental attitudes using New Ecological paradigm (NEP) developed by Dunlap,Van Liere, Mertig, & Jones (2000) which measures wider range of facets of an ecological views namely, reality of limits of growth, anti-anthropocentrism, fragility of nature's balance, rejection of exemptionalism, and possibility of ecocrisis, among Indian masses. The data on NEP scale of 263 individuals aged between 18 to 83 was investigated. The comparison between the males (N=117) and females (N=146) showed that there exists differences between the two in the dimension of anti anthropocentrism. The results of the study and further implications have been discussed.

Keywords

New Ecological Paradigm, Reality of Limits of Growth, Anti-Anthropocentrism, Fragility of Nature's Balance.

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A. Velayudhan ¹, J. Nicolas Benedict ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, IN

Abstract

Laws or Principles of Science are universal in Nature(Faulconer & Williams, 1985; Slife, 1993; 1995b; 1996b; Slife 7& Williams, 1995). Materialism postulates that the real is the visible and tangible things of the world which exist independently ofthe observer. This assumption is derived primarily from Empiricism wherein materialistic entities are perceivable through the senses. That is, real, material things are thought to make impressions on our minds through the channels of the senses (Slife, 1995a). According to materialism, psychological science is possible only because the behaviors of people make sensory impressions on psychological scientists. Science dealt with mass as mass,and ignored all spiritual matters. Scientific discoveries are manipulations of materials already that exist in the universe. As Vivekananda said, Law of gravitation existed before human discovery and will exist even if all humamty forgot it. Modern Scientists are very true to their material realm and so the Laws of Matter are revealed to them. All the modern inventions and technologies are the discovery which involves arranging systematically the material world and benefit out of it, they are not creations. There is other part of universal truth that is Spiritual Laws though been revealed since ancient periods but not everyone could realize it. More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual, according to recent research from Rice University (Ecklund & Long, 2011). The present paper deals with the spiritual part of religions with its emphasis to ensure spiritual growth. The fundamental message of all religions however derives from the central core of essential spiritual truths. These spiritual laws are impersonal and universal; they were discovered not created by the scientist in the religion of mystics. They had shown others the way to realize those spiritual laws through various true practices and applying it to daily life which is highly capable for spiritual experimenters to seek the Truth. The theoretical analysis ofthe present paper is to point out few important Universal Spiritual laws mostly from the Eastern religious scriptures and tried to find out the stmilarvtews from Western and other prominent sacred texts.

Keywords

Universe, Spirituality, Laws.

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A. Velayudhan ¹, S. Selvaraju ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

The study was conducted on 100 samples (50 male and 50 female) in KSR Textiles, Erode. The textile employees face stress, which affects their general functioning and attitude toward life. The present investigation was earned out to a) Differentiate the life stress events among male and female textile employees and b) to find out the difference m occupational stress among male and female textile employees. The results indicated no significant difference in the level of life stress events between male and females working in the textile mill. Whereas, there was a significant difference in the role behavior stress between male and female textile workers in the level of occupational stress.

Keywords

Life Stress Events, Sources of Pressure, Effect of Stress, Role Behavior.

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