Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Deepika Vig ¹, Sumandeep Kaur ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, AE

Abstract

The present research study investigated the impact of an intervention programme designed to enhance the knowledge levels of parents regarding management of learning difficulties among elementary school children. The study was carried out in 15 urban Private schools of Ludhiana City. From each school, 3rd and 4th class children facing problems in reading, writing and mathematics were randomly selected. The total sample consisted of 258 parents of these selected children .The parents were given intervention on various aspects of learning difficulties among children. Pre and post-intervention knowledge scores were assessed. The results indicated that intervention significantly improved the overall knowledge scores of the parents from poor to good level. After getting intervention, parents were found to have significantly better knowledge and comprehension skills and were able to utilize the gained knowledge for solving day to day problems related to reading, writing and mathematics among their children.

Keywords

Intervention, Knoweldge, Comprehension, Application, Learning Difficulties

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Deepika Vig ¹, Sumandeep Kaur ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The present research study investigated the impact of an intervention programme designed to enhance the knowledge levels of teachers regarding management of learning difficulties among elementary school children across various educational levels. The study was carried out in 15 urban Private schools of Ludhiana City. From each school, 3rd and 4th class children facing problems in reading, writing and mathematics were randomly selected. The total sample consisted of 300 students. 172 teachers who were teaching Mathematics & language to these selected students constituted the sample of teachers .These teachers were given intervention on various aspects of learning difficulties among children. Pre and post-intervention knowledge scores were assessed across two educational levels. The results indicated that intervention significantly improved the overall knowledge scores of the teachers from poor to good level at both the educational levels. However, after getting intervention, post- graduate teachers were found to have significantly better comprehension and application skills and were able to utilize the gained knowledge for solving day to day problems related to reading, writing and mathematics among students of their respective classes.

Keywords

Intervention, Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Learning Difficulties, Graduate, Post-graduate

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Gagandeep Kaur Gharial ¹, Sarita Saini ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Metacognition is defined as one's own awareness of the thought process: specifically it concerns the ability to regulate the cognitive processes of the learners in their learning. Similarly, multiple intelligence covers the capacity to reason, figure and handle logical thinking. Therefore, it must be seen more as the "OUTPUT" function of information intake, learning, skills and ability. Hence, the present study is focused towards studying the level of metacognition and multiple intelligence among adolescents. The investigation was conducted on 200 rural school going adolescents (n=200) studying in grade 9th and 10th, exclusively drawn from selected Government Senior Secondary Schools in the villages of Ludhiana-1 Block. The subjects were randomly selected and equally distributed across both the genders (males=100&females=100). A self-designed socio-personal information sheet was used to collect the background information of the adolescents. Metacognitive Awareness lnventory (Schraw & Dennison, 1994) and Multiple Intelligence Survey (McKenzie, 1999) were used to assess the metacognition and multiple intelligence of the selected subjects. The results of the study revealed that majority of the adolescents had an 'average level' of metacognition as well as multiple intelligence. Further, results unveiled that across various components and sub-components of metacognition as well as types of multiple intelligence gender emerged as a significantly impacting factor where girls showed better mean scores than boys.

Keywords

Metacognition, Knowledge of Cognition, Regulation of Cognition, Multiple Intelligence.

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Pooja Kaushik ¹, Asha Chawla ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The present study was carried out on 240 adolescents (120 rural & 120 urban) in the age group of 16-18 years from government schools of Ludhiana District to understand relationship of altruism and empathy among rural and urban adolescents. For data collection, socio-personal information sheet, Altruism Scale (Rai & Singh, 2004) and Empathy Scale (Dubey & Tandon, 2014) were used. The results revealed that rural adolescents were highly altruistic and empathetic as compared to urban adolescents. Large proportion of the rural and urban adolescents had high level of altruism and empathy. Rural adolescents had significantly better mean scores as compared to urban adolescents at average level as well as overall altruism and empathy. Significant and positive correlation existed between altruism and empathy among rural adolescents indicating higher was the altruistic attitude, more was the empathy in adolescents.

Keywords

Adolescents, Altruism and Empathy.

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Neha Joshi ¹, Deepika Vig ¹, Sarita Sain ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Developmental readiness plays an important role in early childhood period and it sets the basis for future development. It is multi-faceted concept comprised of physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and self-help skills of children. Thus developmental readiness of children assures smooth and successful transition to formal schooling. The purpose of the present study was to assess the developmental readiness of private school children. The total sample of the study comprised of 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) of class- I randomly selected from private schools of rural and urban area. Self-structured Developmental readiness checklist was used to assess its different components.The results revealed that most of the rural and urban children had high level of skills across all domains. Locale differences showed that both rural children showed significantly better skills across various domains of developmental readiness than urban children except in cognitive skills and fine motor skills. Implications o fresearch for practice are also discussed in the present study.

Keywords

Developmental Readiness, Cognitive Readiness, Gross and Fine Motor Readiness.

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Nidhi Marothiya ¹, Sarita Saini ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Cases related to child abuse and exploitations of child rights are major public concerns nowadays. Despite having plenty of implementation for the welfare of children in India the condition of children is still worse. The school is a major social institution responsible for socializing the child and teachers are in unique position to safeguard children due to their daily contact with children. The study was initiated to identify the awareness level of teachers regarding Child Rights and Protection in Ludhiana district of Punjab. Total 120 teachers from primary section of schools were selected as a sample of the study. A self-structured 'Child Rights and Protection' Checklist was used to collect the requisite data. Analysis of results revealed that majority of teachers were quite aware about the basic child rights as per the Indian Constitution but the awareness regarding UNCRC (1989); POCSO Act (2012); and JJ Act (2015) was found to be very poor among teachers. Further, the locale-wise differences among teachers regarding basic child rights revealed that urban teachers were significantly better aware than rural teachers but, no significant differences were observed with regards to (UNCRC, 1989) as well as the (JJ Act, 2015). However, contrasting to the other finding of this study it was found that rural teachers were significantly more knowledgeable than their urban counterparts regarding some of the provisions under the (POCSO Act, 2012). The correlation analysis of awareness level of teachers with their socio-personal characteristics revealed a statistically non-significant relationship between the variables.

Keywords

Child Rights, UNCRC, POCSO Act, JJ Act, Teachers' Awareness.

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Shatakshi Singh ¹, Deepika Vig ¹, Asha Chawla ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Academic readiness plays an important role in early childhood period and it sets the basis for future development. It is a holistic approach of parents, children, and school towards appropriate development of child. Academic readiness is gaining attention as an important approach to merge the learning gap and improves the quality of achieving lifelong learning and full developmental potential among preschoolers. This study comprising 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) of class-I from randomly selected private schools of rural and urban area of Ludhiana district. Self-structured academic readiness checklist was undertaken to assess academic readiness. The results revealed that most of the rural and urban children had high level of skills in overall academic readiness. Locale wise differences depicted that urban children had better skills across various domains of academic readiness than rural children.

Keywords

Academic Readiness, Per-reading Readiness, Per-writing Readiness, Per-arithmetic Readiness.

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Parul Kalia ¹, Sarita Saini ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Caregiving of a dependent elderly is one of the gruelling tasks that develops burden of stress among caregivers. The caregiver stress is an important and negative parameter which is harmful for the primary caregivers. In fact, the burden upon the primary caregivers ultimately changes the perception of quality of life. The overburdening of the tasks viz. household as well as caregiving and that is also without required amount of help leads to poor quality of life of the primary caregivers. The present study was conducted on a sample of 60 primary caregivers from middle socio-economic status families situated in the district of Ludhiana city of Punjab. Zarit Burden Interview developed by Zarit et al. (1980) was used to assess the caregiver stress of the primary caregivers. The quality of life of the respondents was assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref questionnaire which was developed by World Health Organization (1997). The results revealed that a major proportion of the respondents reported to possess a low level of quality of life. Statistically significant association was found between the caregiver stress and the overall quality of life as well as across different domains of quality of life of the primary caregivers.

Keywords

primary Caregiver, Caregiver Stress, Quality of Life.

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Pooja Kaushik ¹, Asha Chawla ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the gender differences in the relationship of altruism with empathy of adolescents. The present study was carried out on 240 adolescents (120 girls & 120 boys) in the age group of 16-18 years from Government Senior Secondary schools of Ludhiana District. For data collection, Socio-personal Information Sheet, Altruism Scale (Rai & Singh) and Empathy Scale (Dubey & Tandon) were used. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents had higher level of altruism. However, gender wise differences indicated that girls were found to be more altruistic and more empathetic as compared to boys. Statistically significant and positive correlation existed between altruism and empathy across both the genders.

Keywords

Adolescents, Altruism, Empathy.

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Alka Dixit ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Academic Resilience plays a very important role in modern education. It is the student's ability to compete and get success in an environment where they face adverse conditions. Academic resilience assists the learners to handle and manage stress, anxiety and pressure in the academic setting. These days, academic resilience is seen as an emerging trend in education system and has become an important part of education as well as the most important part of a student's life. In the present study, an attempt was made to assess and compare the levels of academic resilience among 480 students (240 high & 240 low achievers from various streams, i.e., medical, non-medical, commerce & humanities) studying in Senior Secondary classes of six different private schools of Ludhiana city. Academic Resilience Scale developed by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to assess the academic resilience among selected high and low achievers. Results of the study showed that medical students (high achievers from class 12th ) were highly academically resilient followed by non-medical, commerce and humanities students. High achievers were found to have high level of sense of well-being as well as positive relationships with adults and peers than low achievers.

Keywords

academic resilience, high achievers, and low achievers.

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