Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sudha Banth ¹, Tarini Mohi ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab, IN
2 Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of passion for work (harmonious and obsessive) in burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and professional efficacy) using the dualistic model of passion. The sample consisted of 200 middle level managers from various branches and offices of Public Sector banks in the tricity of Chandigarh, Mohali, and Panchkula. Passion Scale (Vallerand et al., 2003) and Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS: Schaufeli, Leiter, Maslach&Jackson, 1996) were used to measure passion for work and burnout respectively. The results revealed that harmonious passion was negatively related to exhaustion, cynicism and positively correlated with professional efficacy, while obsessive passion was positively related to exhaustion, cynicism and negatively correlated with professional efficacy. Exhaustion and cynicism were found to be significantly lower than professional efficacy among managers in the Public Sector banks.

Keywords

Work, Passion, Burnout, Managers

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Sudha Banth ¹, Anubhuti Sharma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

The present endeavor was aimed to assess the differences among different birth orders (only child, first born, second born, and third born) and family sizes (one child family, two child family, and three child family). For this purpose, 480 young adults were randomly selected from the Tricity of Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali. Zung's depression inventory (1975) was administered on the sample. 4×3 factorial analyzes of variance design was applied to assess the differences among the young adults. Further, Scheffe's post-hoc test was also applied. Results showed a significant difference among different birth orders and family sizes on depression.

Keywords

Birth Order, Depression, Family Size, Young Adults.

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Diljot Soin ¹, Sudha Banth ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

The present research examined the personality types of the male managers from different departments of the private Insurance Companies, viz., sales, operations, human resource. This paper makes contribution by probing the dominant and auxiliary functions of the personality types that makes the managers function effectively in the above said departments. For this purpose, MBTI test by Myers and McCauley (1985) was conducted on the sample of 150 male middle-line managers (50 from sales, 50 from operations, 50 from human resource, i.e., HR department) within the age group of 35-45 years, selected randomly from the Private Insurance Companies of the tri-city of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. The results indicated that “ESTJ” was the most common occurring personality type among managers of Insurance Sector irrespective of their departments. Thinking and sensing emerged as the most common dominant and auxiliary functions respectively among them. The results further revealed that preference for the dominant function, i.e., extraverted thinking was greatest among the managers from sales and operations department whereas among the managers from human resource department preference for the auxiliary function, i.e., introverted sensing was greater than the managers from sales and operations departments. Post-hoc comparisons showed that managers from sales were found to be significantly higher than managers from operations and human resource (p < 0.005), and managers from operations were found to be significantly higher (p < 0.005) than managers from human resource on the dominant function of extraverted thinking. Whereas mangers from human resource and operations were found to be significantly higher (p < 0.005) than the managers from sales, and managers from human resource were found to be significantly higher (p<0.005) than managers from operations on the auxiliary function of introverted sensing. 

Keywords

personality Type, Thinking, Sensing, Insurance Executives.

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Anubhuti Sharma ¹, Sudha Banth ¹, S. K. Srivastava ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, IN

Abstract

The present study described the extent to which the single male and female young adolescents are involved in age- related decision- making areas such as- personal, educational, relationship, leisure, and entertainment, and the extent to which their parents, and family is involved. Forty single male and female youth were assessed using the 'youth decision- making involvement scale'. The results implied that single male youth tend to take suggestions from all family members and involve them jointly in taking decisions for them, which shows a feeling of togetherness and cohesion in the males, while in the case of single female youth, the parents tend to decide for their areas of decision- making reflecting females' dependence and conventional Indian mindset and simultaneously, the parents' care, concern and overprotective attitude towards them. This has brought with itself a new perspective of the modern times.

Keywords

Youth's Behavior, Family.

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