Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Somdeb Mitra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

Positive psychology aims to scientifically study human happiness and enhance well-being. The present study explores the roles of cognitive emotion regulation, ego functions and meaning in life in the development of general well-being among individuals. Sample consisted of 110 adult individuals (54 females, and 56 males aged 25-50 years). They were individually administered PGI general well-being scale (Verma&Verma, 1989), cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (Garrefski et al., 2001), ego functions assessment Scale (Bellack et al., 1989) and the meaning in life questionnaire (Steger et al., 2006). Data were analyzed using 't' test, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results revealed that general well-being was positively correlated with positive cognitive emotion regulation, presence of meaning in life, and the 11 of the 12 ego functions. It was also found that defensive functioning, positive cognitive emotion regulation and presence of meaning in life contributed significantly to the development of general well-being.

Keywords

General Well-Being, Ego Functions, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Meaning in Life.

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Chandamita Barua ¹, Ushri Banerjee ², Somdatta Mukherjee ³, Somdeb Mitra ⁴

Affiliations
1 Dr. Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati., IN
2 Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal., IN
3 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal., IN
4 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta Coordinator M.Phil in Clinical Psychology Course Clinical Psychology Centre of University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal., IN

Abstract

Mental health problems among children can be broadly classified into emotional and behavioural problems. The present study was conducted on a sample of 7 children with emotional and behavioural problems in the age range of 5-10 years. The participants who consented to participate were administered the Seguin Form Board Test (SFBT), while their parents were administered the Modified Kuppuswamy Socio-economic scale (2018) to ascertain their intellectual and socioeconomic status respectively. Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (DSMD) and KINDLR were used to obtain baseline measures of the participants' current problems. The Play Therapy Observation Instrument (PTOI) was used to rate the play behaviour of the participants. Following this, the participants having behavioural and emotional problems were chosen through purposive sampling and were given 12 sessions of non­ directive play-based intervention. Along with it, their parents were given psycho-education. The obtained data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings of the study indicated that emotional and behavioural problems in children declined and improvement in their quality of life was seen after play-based intervention supplemented by parental psycho-education. The process and outcome of therapy has been discussed in the light of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Keywords

Emotional Problems, Behavioural Problems, Play, and Quality of Life.

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