Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Bhakti Devi Pandit ¹, Triveni Raina ¹, Shobhana C. Abhyankar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Fergusson College, Pune, IN

Abstract

This paper examines male and female adolescents' current problems, broadly divided in four categories: home, school, social and self and studies the gender differences. It also studies the relationship of emotional intelligence with adolescent problems. It was hypothesized that emotional intelligence will be inversely correlated with youth problems and male adolescents and female adolescents will not differ significantly on family problems, school/college problems, social problems and personal problems. To test these hypotheses, an incidental sample of 77 males and 59 female (n=136) students (age- 16 to 21 yrs) were administered with Verma's Youth Problem Inventory (YPI) and Chaddha's Emotional Intelligence Test (EIT). The data were analyzed using the Pearson product moment correlation, point bi-serial correlation, multivariate stepwise regression analysis and the independent samples t-test. It was found that gender and adolescent problems were negatively correlated (rp,bis = -.34, p<.01), thereby implying that female students experience less problems than male students. Emotional intelligence (EI) was also negatively correlated with youth problems (r = -.29, p<.01), indicating that as EI increases, youth problems decrease. Gender was a stronger predictor for youth problems than emotional intelligence. The results are discussed in the light of the present Indian scenario about the youth.

Keywords

Gender, Emotional Intelligence, Adolescent Problems

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Sairaj M. Patki ¹, Shobhana C. Abhyankar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Fergusson College, Pune, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

Helping behaviors at the workplace go a long way in contributing towards a healthy work-environment and organizational functioning. The present study aimed at investigating whether employees display interpersonal helping/citizenship behaviors directed towards individuals (OCBI) and organizational helping/citizenship behaviors directed towards the organization (OCBO) equally well. The sample comprised of 325 clerical employees from nationalized and co-operative banks. Results showed a significant difference between OCBI and OCBO, with employees reporting that they indulge in OCBO more often than OCBI. The possible explanation and implications of the study are discussed.

Keywords

Interpersonal Helping, OCBI, Organizational Helping, OCBO.

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