Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Parampreet Kaur ¹, Suninder Tung ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, IN

Abstract

Entry into adolescence brings lot of internal and external changes and due to these changes an early adolescent is vuLnerable to depressive feelings. There is also a new found shift in their internal circadian rhythms, which is towards eveningness from morning type. So, the present study was conducted to investigate the relation of momingness-eveningness and depressive symptoms with risk taking behaviours among early adolescents. For this purpose a sample of 218 students (boys=106,girls=l 12) of age 13-14 yrs was drawn from different Sr Sec. Schools of Moga. To obtain the required data self assessment questionnaires i.e. Adolescent Risk Behaviour Questionnaire (ARQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDl-11) and Momingness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) were administered on the sample. From the results it was found that momingness-eveningness is significantly negatively correlated with risk taking behaviours and depressive symptoms are significantly positively correlated with risk behaviours. Further it was found that both momingness-eveningness (β= -.60, t= 10.8, p<.01) and depressive symptoms (β= .26, t= 4.7, p<.01) significantly predicted 64% variance (R2= .64, F= 190.7, P<.01) in risk taking behaviours in the selected sample.

Keywords

Risk Taking Behaviors, Momingness, Eveningness, Depression, Adolescents.

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Neha Kishor Pednekar ¹, Suninder Tung ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Panjab, IN

Abstract

Internet is occupying an important place in the life of today's youth. While listing the advantages of internet, the negative side of this technology in the form of excessive use among the adolescents cannot be refuted. Considering the changes an individual experiences during this phase, the present study was conducted to find the role of identity style, emotional autonomy, attachment, family environment and well-being in predicting PIU among adolescents. A sample of 611 (Boy s = 208, Girls = 303) in the age group of 13-18 years were assessed using PIUQ (Demetrovics et al., 2008), Identity Style Inventory (Berzonsky, 1992); Emotional Autonomy Scale (Steinberg&Silverberg, 1986); lPPA(Armsden&Greenberg, 1987); FES (Moos&Moos, 1983); and FWBS (1994). The results obtained indicate that the selected variables contributed 28.5% and 45.9% variance in PIU among boys and girls respectively.

Keywords

Adolescents, Problematic Internet Use, Identity Style, Emotional Autonomy.

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