Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Anindita Mukherjee ¹, Atanu Kumar Dogra ², Saranya Banerjee ²

Affiliations
1 Clinical Psychologist, CUIIPP Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, IN
2 Department of Psychology University of Calcutta, Calcutta, IN

Abstract

In the present study, researchers want to compare happy and unhappy IT professionals in terms of perception of stressful life events and organizational role stress. The study comprises a sample of 100 male married individuals, age ranging between 28-32 years, with an educational qualification of B.Tech and currently employed in IT sector. Each of the subject was individually assessed by Personal Information Schedule, Organizational Role Stress Scale (Pareek, 1981), Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale (Singh et al., 1984) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002). On the basis of median value of happiness, data of the sample are split into two groups- 1st group- below the median value and 2nd group- equal and above the median value. Inferential t-tests were done to find out the significant difference between the two groups on the basis of role stress and stressful life events. Results reveal that there is significant difference between the two groups with regard to four dimensions of organizational role stress, i.e., role ambiguity, role expectation conflict, self role distance and personal in adequacyat .05 level of significance but there is no significant difference in terms of stressful life events.

Keywords

Organizational Role Stress, Stressful Life Events, Happiness

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Poonam Saha ¹, Asmita Karmakar ², Aparajita Chakroborty ³, Anindita Mukherjee ⁴, Manisha Bhattacharya ⁵, Samannita Lala ⁶, Hillol Mukherjee ⁷, Atanu Kumar Dogra ⁸, Jishnu Bhattacharya ⁹, Ashis Mukhopadhyay ¹⁰

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 UGC Senior research fellow, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
4 Clinical Psychologist, Department of Health and Family Welfare, West Bengal, IN
5 Clinical Psychologist, Autism Society, West Bengal, IN
6 Psychologist, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
7 Institute of Advance Studies in Education, Tripura, IN
8 Department of Psychology University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
9 Neuropsychiatrist, Suri Sadar Hospital, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of West Bengal, West Bengal, IN
10 Department of Psychiatry, West Bengal Medical Education Service, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to construct a tool to measure academic engagement among school students and to test the tool's usability. An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted in this tool construction. The processes include - conceptualization and generation of items with five-point responses, relevant judgement of these items, item validity and identification of factor hierarchical structure, determining psychometric properties of tool. The study was done based on 401 adolescent school students of Tripura state of India, selected through purposive sampling technique and statistical analyses was done using IBM SPSS 22.The S-CVI results show .87 ( S-CVI/average) which indicates high content validity of overall academic engagement scale. EFA on this scale reveals a) initiation, b) Maintaining attention, c)using engagement strategy d) exploration e) Outcome Analysis f)Persistence g) Disengagement Strategy making h) valence in academic process as 8 components among 49 items. Two second order components 'Perceived valence of academic process' and 'execution' were extracted from these eight factors. Satisfactory Internal consistency of 8 principal components using Cronbach Alpha (.632 -.768) were found. The tool is effective in assessing the academic engagement of adolescent school students.

Keywords

Academic Engagement, School Students, Scale Construction.

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