Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Kalpana Sahoo ¹

Affiliations
1 Sri Sri University, Bidyadharpur, Godi Sahi, Cuttack, Odisha, IN

Abstract

In recent years psychologists have carried out a large numbers of studies to examine the relationship between religious experience and mental health. Some studies indicate a positive association between them, while other show negative relationship. So psychologists have distinguished two forms of religious experiences: external religiosity and internal religiosity. External religiosity is indicted in the form of attending the places of worships, rituals and other outward behaviors. Internal religiosity refers to attitude and values. Accordingly spiritually has been likened to internal religiosity. Spirituality, defined as a search for sacredness, not only highlights the search process; it also involves efforts to hold onto the sacred once it has been discovered .This paper highlights the role spiritualism in workplace and the individual role to develop spiritualism . In addition to effort of spiritually based leaders, organizations need to adopt some useful practices in this direction to face the upcoming challenges.

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Fakir Mohan Sahoo ¹, Arpita Sarangi ², Kalpana Sahoo ³

Affiliations
1 Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
2 Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
3 Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN

Abstract

The advent of neuroscience and the accompanying technology allows us a specific categorization of emotional styles. Emotional styles are much closer to underlying brain systems than emotional states or traits. Based on neuroscientific findings, a taxonomy of six emotional styles (resilience, optimism, social intuition, self-awareness, context-awareness,& attention) has been conceptualized. The present study is geared to developing a psychometric measure of these six styles. A total number of 132 potential managers (72 males & 60 females) are individually administered a 60-item scale of emotional styles developed by the first author. In addition, two short versions of physical health and depression are also administered. The examination of group difference across male and female managers reveals no gender difference. However, female managers tend to report greater optimism and attention, though the difference does not reach the level of statistical significance. As expected, these positive dimensions of emotional styles are significantly inter-correlated. The implications of findings are outlined for future intervention programmes.

Keywords

Resilience, Optimism, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Context-Awareness, Attention, Managers.

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