Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Alpana Vaidya ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune, IN

Abstract

Good health is the key to happiness and prosperity. It holds at any point in one's life time. The present paper is an attempt to study the relationship between quality of life and emotional intelligence among arts and commerce students in Pune city. The total sample consisted of 313 students from various colleges of Pune city where this course is taught. They were administered Quality of life scale and Emotional Intelligence scale. The quality of life was measured with the help of Comprehensive Quality of Life scale Adult (ComQol- A-5, 1997) developed by Robert Cummins. Emotional Intelligence was measured with the help of Schutte et al. (1998) scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 for windows. Pearson's Product moment correlation was used to test the correlational hypotheses and Anova used to find out gender differences and faculty wise differences in quality of life and emotional intelligence. Results showed significant gender differences on Subjective Quality of Life (SQOL) but gender differences were not found on Objective Quality of Life (OQOL) and Emotional Intelligence (EI). Regarding faculty wise differences, obtained results showed that girls from arts faculty scored higher on SQOL.

Keywords

Quality of Life, Emotional Intelligence, Well Being

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Sanhitta J. Karmalkar ¹, Alpana Vaidya ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

Present study attempts to explore the effects of Classical Yoga Intervention (CYI) on the resilience of college students who migrate to cities from rural areas for the sake of education. Students in the study belonged to the age group of l6-18 years and were in their first year in the new city, Pune. They were pre-tested on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (2003). Experimental and control group were equivalent on resilience before the intervention. Classical Yoga Intervention consisting of 40 sessions of Yoga was conducted on the experimental group. After 40 sessions, post testing was done. Differences in gain scores of experimental and control group on resilience were tested using independent 't' test. Results revealed that experimental group was significantly higher than the control group on factor 1 (t=-2.99, p=.00, factor 2 (t=-2.09, p=.04), factor 4 (t=-2.43, p=.02) and total score of resilience (t=-3.14,p=.00). Results showed that CYI has been helpful in enhancing students' resilience.

Keywords

Resilience, Yoga, Rural-To-Urban Migration.

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