Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Sreerupa Ghose ¹, Sanjukta Das ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, IN
2 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

The concept of emerging adulthood is new. It is a by product of industrialization and has its origin in the post industrialized American society of 21st century. But Indian urban community is believed to have certain significant resemblance to post industrialized Americans. Keeping this in mind the present study explored four variables: subjective well being (SWB), optimism, meaning in life (presence and search) and spirituality in the emerging adults of Kolkata, belonging to the age group of 20 to 25. Standardized questionnaires were administered to 50 male and 50 female emerging adults. Data was treated with appropriate statistics. No significant difference was found across gender as far as the variables included were concerned. Meaning in life presence emerged as the positive predictor of SWB. Spirituality emerged as a negative predictor of SWB.

Keywords

Emerging Adulthood, Optimism, Meaning in Life, Spirituality, Subjective Well Being.

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Nabamita Chakraborty ¹, Sanjukta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

The present study was meant to be an exploration of the cognitive and personality features that might affect the psychological resilience of the high functioning young population. The study examined the roles of masculinity, femininity cognitive errors and metacognition on the resilient worldview of male and female students of post-graduation, aged 21 -25 years. A total of 187 students were investigated, of which 94 were male and 93 were female. The participants were chosen from a Hindu, Bengali background and all were required to complete a personal information schedule, the Inventory of Positive Psychological Attitudes (IPPA), (Kass,1985-86), the Indian Gender Role Identity Scale (Basu, 2010), the Cognitive Error Questionnaire (Lefebvre,1981), and the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (O'Neill&Abedi, 1992). The obtained data were analyzed using parametric statistics. Results revealed that males and females did not differ significantly in their psychological resilience. The high and low resilient females differ significantly in their masculinity and certain aspects of cognitive errors and metacognition .Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis reveals that in case of males, masculinity, overgeneralization, and awareness were found to be contributory variables in their resilience. For females, only masculinity was found to be contributory to their resilience .Psychological explanations of the above findings have been given and implications mentioned.

Keywords

Resilience, Role Identity, Cognitive Errror

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Sreerupa Ghose ¹, Sanjukta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

Wisdom has been recognized as an important human virtue for ages and in all societies. But history of wisdom in psychology is a brief one and the existing literature is limited. Wisdom being a complex concept, the studies done so far in psychology have primarily focused on the issue of defining wisdom. The present study purports to explore the different definitions of wisdom proposed by the pioneering researchers in the field.

Keywords

Wisdom, Psychology

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Nabamita Chakraborty ¹, Tanima Chatterjee ¹, Sanjukta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

Midlife is an intriguing phase of the life-course characterized by prominent transitions in the psychological make-up. The current research had twin objectives. A part of it examined an approximate chronological age boundary of middle adulthood as a life phase in the socio-cultural set-up of the city of Kolkata, India, through an opinion survey. The sampling was purposive. 88 working adults, aged between 30-50 years participated in the opinion-survey. This part revealed that midlife is thought to fall roughly between the ages of 35 and 59 years in the targeted socio-cultural environment. Another part examined whether age and gender influenced midlife generative concern and generative action, (the concept of generativity being intrinsically associated with successful and productive adult development particularly manifested during midlife), and how generative concern was related to generative action in the middle adults of this part of the world. The sampling was again purposive and sample size was 100. The Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS) and the Generative Behavior Checklist (GBC) were used to assess the constructs of generative concern and generative action respectively. Findings reveal an age and gender interaction effect upon generative concern. A positive correlation was found to exist between generative concern and action. Implications and conclusions of the above are mentioned.

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