Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sunita Tiwari ¹, Pooja Garg ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, IN

Abstract

According to Bowlby, early attachment experiences with parents provide prototypes for later interpersonal relationships outside the family. The baste premise of the study ts based on early childhood experiences that people develop general expectations about relationships. Then once formalized into mental structures, these beliefs are resistant to changes and have implications for the nature of one's relationships across the life span. In the present study, the relation between the early attachment experiences with parents and adult interpersonal relationships(love and friendship relationships) were examined. The sample comprises of 100 married college students (50 females and 50 males). Parental Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ) was used to assess the subject's perception about their parents' attitude towards them and their relationship with their father and mother. QRI (Quality of relationship inventory) was used for the assessment of love and for friendship relationships. The results supported the hypothesis that early parent-child attachment experience is significantly related to adult interpersonal relationship.

Keywords

Early Attachment, Adult Relationship, Attachment Style, Childhood Experiences, Love, Friendship.

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Happy Paul ¹, Pooja Garg ¹

Affiliations
1 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IN

Abstract

With the increased role of psychology in last two decades, research on subjective well-being has gained much attention and as an outcome its role at workplace has been explored well in applied research. However, how this significant positive aspect of life functions in everyday life at work remains unknown. The paper bridges this gap and explores the potential role of SWB to augment the tendency of employees to display extra-role behaviours at workplace. It was proposed that the subjective experience of well-being would enjoy a positive relationship with the demonstration of organizational citizenship behaviours. In this venture, authors after briefly defining the constructs and looking into the literature, summarize the findings from a sample of executives working in Indian manufacturing industry (N=240). The participants were assessed for subjective well-being (Life Satisfaction, Positive Affect and Negative Affect), and organizational citizenship behaviours (Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy and Civic Virtue). The results of regression analysis revealed that the two-component configuration of SWB constituting cognitive and affective dimensions relate positively to the dimensions of OCB. It is argued that since the citizenship behaviours demonstrate the state of everyday life of an employee at workplace, it is pertinent for organizations to achieve optimal human experience and well-being. Practical implications are discussed along with the future directions for research.

Keywords

Life Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, Negative Affect, Positive Affect, Psychology, Subjective Well-Being.

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