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Papia Mukherjee ¹, Anindita Chaudhuri ¹, Sonali De ¹

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

Abstract

The joint family system has been one of the salient features of the Indian society since a long era. The enormous changes in the family system has documented over a period of century which increases the freedom of marital choice, greater involvement of females in decision making regarding family matter, rises level of education among women, greater conflict between husband and wife, incidence of separation and divorce. Changes in the traditional family system are steadily diminishing the joint family structure from the urban scene. Thus, the present study explores how the love attitude, feeling of security and motivation to acquire relationship threatening information of couples contribute to the marital quality of spouses from urban area in the present era. The sample consisted of 15 couples from joint family and 15 couples from nuclear family. The age of the participants ranged from 30 to 50 years, with minimum five years of length of marriage, from middle to higher socio economic group, at least graduate and having at least one offspring. The participants completed Love Attitude Scale, Indian Adaptation of Maslow's Security-Insecurity feeling Inventory, Motivation to Acquire Relationship Threatening Information Scale and Martial Quality Scale. The data were analyzed using Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis (SMRA) separately for females from joint family, females from nuclear family, males from joint family, and males from nuclear family. Result showed that Erotic Love contributes 20.8% to marital quality for the group of female from joint family and 15.9% to marital quality for the female from nuclear family. Thus, erotic love contributes to marital quality as a whole for the wives from joint as well as nuclear family. On the other hand Pragmatic Love contributes 19.9% to marital quality in case of male from nuclear family. In case of male from joint family, Feelings of security contributes 18.8% to the marital quality but, the result signifies that feeling of security influences negatively to the quality of marriage for the group of joint family male.

Keywords

Marital Quality, Love Attitude, Security-Insecurity Feelings, Communication.

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Samadrita Saha ¹, Debangana Chakraborty ¹, Anindita Chaudhuri ¹

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

Abstract

The present study explores the roles of Life Regard, Relational Interdependence Self Construal, Social Support and Spirituality in the development of Happiness among 100 adult individuals (50 males and 50 females), age ranging from 20 to 35. The participants completed Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002), Life Regard Index (Battista & Almond, 1973), The Relational-Interdependent Self-Construal & Relationships (Cross et al., 2000), Social Support Questionnaire, short form (Sarason et al., 1987) and Spiritual Involvement and Belief Scale (Hatch et al., 1998). The data were analyzed using Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis (SMRA). Males and females are treated as two separate groups. Results indicated, among males, life regard and relational interdependence self construal were the two contributory variables for Happiness. Among females, life regard and Social Support were found to be the contributory factors. Life Regard is found to be the common contributory factor for both the genders. This emphasizes the finding that meaning in life helps to attain Happiness for both groups. This particular research helps us to know how perception of happiness changes with gender difference.

Keywords

Happiness, Life Regard, Relational-Interdependence, Social Support, Spirituality.

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Lopamudra Saha ¹, Anindita Chaudhuri ¹

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

Abstract

This paper contributes to an understanding on the factors responsible for terrorism of Tripura, a North-eastern state of India. Tripura has been facing the problems of insurgency since 1980s when an ethnic fight began in between the tribal and non-tribal residents of the state. The tribals of Tripura being overpowered by the Bengalis in day-to-day dealings formed a terrorist group to attain their rights. This has effects on both the tribal and non-tribal population. Both the groups have different explanation rather we can say different perception regarding these terrorist activities. However, the perception may also vary across different age groups as the old adults of the state has seen changes right from the beginning, the middle aged persons from the midst and the young aged only the present situation. Therefore the present study was done across six tribal and non-tribal groups comprising of three different age groups viz., young adult (18-22 yrs), middle aged adult (45- 55 yrs), old adult (65 yrs above). Each group comprised of 5-8 members and all the groups underwent one focus group discussion. The information was obtained by a qualitative study carried on with the help of focus group discussion. The results of the present study indicate that the most important factors that contribute to the terrorism in Tripura are: sense of deprivation, politics, economic problem and unemployment. However, lack of education, misunderstandings among the tribal themselves and also in between the tribal and the non-tribal are some other remarkable factors responsible for the development of terrorism in Tripura.

Keywords

Terrorism, Causes, Trial Adults.

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Dibyangana Biswas ¹, Anindita Chaudhuri ¹

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

Abstract

In a developing country of 3rd world like India there exist strong negative attitudes towards homosexuality. Sexual orientation of a person could even be a criminal offence according to the law of India (Indian Penal Code: section 377). In such a society it is expected to follow social norms and hiding one's sexual orientation (if it's different from the pre set social norm). Here the question arises where hiding one's sexual orientation is desired then why some people choose to show that. Hence, the coming out might have some positive psycho-social implications, which motivates these individuals to step out of the closet. The purpose of this study is to find out the positive psycho-social factors behind stating ones sexual orientation (when it's different from the social norm) through interview method. 6 LGBTQ individuals were interviewed and asked to state the positive factors of stating their sexual orientation, 3 of them are already out to their parents and peers and 3 are not yet out to their parents and peers. Those who have told their close kin(s) and acquaintances about their sexual orientation were also asked about the reaction of their parents and friends when they break the matter to them. The research assumption was that revealing sexual identity might have change the way of perceiving well being, happiness and meaning in life of the LGBTQ individuals, thus these areas were probed in this research.

Keywords

Sexual Orientation, Coming Out, LGBTQ.

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