Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Suvashisa Rana ¹, Meera Padhy ¹, Ruth Angiel Padiri ¹, Durgesh Nandinee ¹, Vincent Kallavarappu ¹

Affiliations
1 Centre for Health Psychology, University of Hyderabad, Central University, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, IN

Abstract

This theoretical paper highlights how story plays a multi-faceted positive role on the developmental process of the child. Listening, reading and writing stories foster child's perception, memory, thinking, language, intelligence, feeling and emotion. Piaget and Kolhberg have used story to find out the aspects of moral development. Through stories the child also learns to communicate effectively and strengthens interpersonal relationships. By listening and reading stories about great personalities, the child involves in role-taking behavior where he/she puts him/herself into another person's (role-model) position and imagines how that person thinks, feels and behaves. Stories are also used for therapeutic purposes for all age groups. Widely accepted projective tests, like Children's Apperception Test, Thematic Apperception Test, analyse an individual's personality through stories. There are many indigenous examples, where we find the relevance of story and parables in shaping the behavior of the child and the overall development of personality. Story, as an aid to positive child development, has a wide implication for the physical, psychological, social, moral and spiritual development, not only during childhood, but also its ripple-effect could be observed during later phases of life.

Keywords

Story, Developmental Process, Moral Development, Positive Child Development

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Tina Fernandes ¹, Geeta Sunkarapalli ¹, Durgesh Nandinee ¹, Velury Pallavi ²

Affiliations
1 St Francis College for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad, IN
2 Santula EAP, IN

Abstract

Employees' well-being in IT sector is a great challenge. Every organization attempts to meet the expectations of their employees, in order to create a conducive workplace atmosphere for its growth. Hence, developing conducive environment may produce a anodyne effect in their life. Aims: The first objective of the study was to find out if there is a difference between men and women on optimism, psychological contract, life effectiveness and work effort in IT employees and second objective was to explore the relationship between life effectiveness, workplace optimism and psychological contract among IT employees. The study involved a correlational design Optimism and Psychological Contract were predictors and Life Effectiveness and work effort were the criterion. One hundred and forty two were men and ninety were women belong to the age group of 20 years and 60 were selected, of which 218 completed the Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ), Workplace Explanations Survey (WES), Psychological Contract Questionnaire, Work Effort Scale, and Work Effort Scale (WESC). These instruments were administered individually along with demographic details. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, Pearson's product‑moment correlations, and multiple linear regression analyses.

Keywords

Psychological Contract, Optimism, Organization.

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