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- Examine the Relationship Between Level of Aspiration, Believes in Just World, Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Work-Life
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1 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, A Central University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IN
1 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, A Central University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 53-59Abstract
The purpose of this study was to (a) to see the role of aspiration in relations to the employee's psychological well-being and quality of work-life, (b) to see the relationships between beliefs in just world with employee's psychological well-being and quality of work-life, (c) to see the inter-relationships between beliefs in just world, quality of work-life and psychological well-being according to the police personnel's level of aspiration, and (d) to find out the best predictor of the relationships between level of aspiration and beliefs in just world to quality of work-life and psychological well-being. The study was conducted on 276 (179 male & 97 female) police personnel working in U.P. Police Organization within the age range of 24 to 59 years with mean score 40.16 years and varies in designations from Constable to Dy SP Following scales were used in this study: Scale of Level of Aspiration: was a single item scale comprises of four ranks (1. Sub-Inspector, 2. Inspector 3. Dy. SP. 4. S.P). Believes in just world was measured by a scale consists of eight items, assessing the belief in just world for the domain of self Psychological well-being was a ten items scale used to assess employee's psychological well-being, which addresses depression, anxiety, and disturbance in social functioning and Quality of work-life scale was a single item scale assessing the overall evaluation of police personnel quality of their work life. All these scales were based on Likert 5-point rating scale. The results of the study revealed that: (a) Police personnel whose aspiration level is to become SP rank officers, have more believes in just world, better psychological well-being and quality of work life than police personnel whose aspirational level is lower, (b) Believes in just world is positively related with psychological well-being and quality of work life (c) One of the most important contribution of this study is that the study revealed a positive relationship between believes in just word and quality of work life that was missing in review of existing literatures on these two variables.Keywords
Believes In Just World, Level of Aspiration, Psychological Well-Being, Quality of Work Life.
- Does Social Support Group Membership Help in Coping with Chronic Diseases?
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1 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IN
1 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 3 (2018), Pagination: 428-435Abstract
This study intended to examine the role of social support groups in coping with chronic diseases such as cancer and AIDS. Mainly there are three objectives of this study, i.e., (A) Examine the role of social support groups and coping strategies in terms of positive outlook, optimism and health-esteem. (B) Examine the role of social support groups and coping with feelings associated with the diseases in terms of negative feelings and pessimism/hopelessness. (C) Examine the relationships between coping strategies in terms of positive outlook, optimism and health-esteem and feelings associated with the disease (negative feelings & pessimism/hopelessness), and (D) Find out the best predictor of coping strategies that determines maximum contribution in lowering the impact of negative feelings and a sense of pessimism/hopelessness associated with patients' disease among member and non-members of social support groups. The sample consists of 100 people suffering from chronic diseases. There were three kinds of people taken as a sample in this study. First, who were suffering from cancer (25), second, who were suffering from HFV+ZAIDS (25) and they were the people who had notjoined any support-group and they were only depends on their family and friends. While, third groups were people who were suffering from HIV+/AIDS (50) but they hadjoined the social-support groups for such people and not only depends on their family and friends. Both male and female from rural and urban settings were taken for this study within the age range of 20 to 80 years with mean score ol^35.73 years. Two type of the scale were used in this study. First scale of coping strategies which was the combination of three sub scales i.e. positive outlook, optimism and health esteem. Second scale for assess the feelings associated with disease was comprises of scale of negative feelings and pessimism/hopelessness. AH these scales were based on Likert 5-point rating scale. The following results were found: (a) optimism and health esteem as coping strategies is higher in patients who were the members of social support groups in comparison to patients who didn'tjoin such support groups, (b) negative feelings and pessimism/hopelessness were found significant difference in patients who are the member and non-member of such social support groups, (c) positive outlook, optimism, and health esteem is lowering the impact of negative feelings and pessimism/hopelessness, and (d) optimism as a coping strategy is found more reliable (best predictor) in case of patients who belongs to social support groups and health esteem is found more reliable in case of patients who doesn't belongs to such social support groups for reducing or coping with negative feelings and pessimism/hopelessness associated with their disease.Keywords
Social Support Groups, Coping, Cancer, Aids, Positive Outlook, Optimism, Health Esteem.References
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