Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Deepika Sharma ¹, Madhu Jain ¹

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

Abstract

Today's youth has limitless, profound never ending energy, but the energy needs some direction to flow. If there is no direction, it is all confusion. Every man is in difficulty in so many ways. Out of so many human beings who are suffering; there are a few who are actually inquiring about their position. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. Just information is not education. It is culturing one's behavior, culturing one's attitude and the ability to perceive things better. Traditionally the emphasis in education has been placed on academic achievement, yet the true measure of success in life is health, happiness, enthusiasm, well-being and the ability to deal effectively with life's challenges. It's spirituality that is making the youngsters beam and helping them find happiness and contentment besides bringing balance to their lives. Many youngsters are going the spiritual way to develop a positive attitude in life; besides spirituality also helps become better human beings.Thus, the present paper aims to explore the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and psychological well-being among the college going students (50 females and 50 males) different colleges of the Jaipur district of Rajasthan. They were administered Spiritual intelligence scale developed by Hingar, Mathur and Bharadwaj (2008). Subjective Well-Being Scale by Hingar, Mathur and Bharadwaj (2008). The data were analyzed by the multiple correlation. The results indicate the positive relations among the variable under study, although no gender differences were found to be significant.

Keywords

Spiritual Intelligence and Subjective Well-Being.

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Deepika Sharma ¹, Sheela Sangwan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of uman development & Family Studies, I.C College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study “Assessment of Coping Skills on Adolescents Aggression” was undertaken with the specific objectives, viz., (i) to find out the level of coping skills among adolescents, (ii) to assess the coping skills of adolescents as per residential area, (iii) to find out the relationship of coping skills with adolescent aggression. The data was collected trom Hisar District of Haryana. A total sample of250 adolescents' in the age group of 13-15 years was randomly selected. APositive Proactive Coping Inventory for adolescents (PCI) developed by Greenglass et al. (2008) was used to assess skills in coping with distress and for dependent variable Aggression scale developed by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2012) was used to study the nature of adolescent aggressive behavior. The collected data were tabulated, processed and analyzed by employing statistical technique i.e. frequencies and z test. Significant differences existed between the proactive (z= 20.30), reflective (z= 6.16), strategic (z= 3.72), preventive (z= 14.56), instrumental (z= 11.14), emotional (z= 1.96) and avoidance coping (z= 6.87) skills of rural and urban adolescents. Also, Urban adolescents had significantly better proactive coping (x= 46.99), reflective coping (x= 35.52), strategic coping (x= 12.71), preventive coping (x= 32.10), instrumental coping (x= 24.89) and emotional coping (x= 16.56) whereas avoidance coping (x= 8.14) was better in adolescents of rural area signifying that adolescents residing in urban area are having better coping skills. Also, it was found that with aggression preventive, instrument and avoidance coping increases whereas proactive and reflective coping decreases.

Keywords

Coping Skills, Adolescents, Aggression, Proactive Coping.

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