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Anindita Mukherjee ¹, Atanu Kumar Dogra ², Saranya Banerjee ²

Affiliations
1 Clinical Psychologist, CUIIPP Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, IN
2 Department of Psychology University of Calcutta, Calcutta, IN

Abstract

In the present study, researchers want to compare happy and unhappy IT professionals in terms of perception of stressful life events and organizational role stress. The study comprises a sample of 100 male married individuals, age ranging between 28-32 years, with an educational qualification of B.Tech and currently employed in IT sector. Each of the subject was individually assessed by Personal Information Schedule, Organizational Role Stress Scale (Pareek, 1981), Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale (Singh et al., 1984) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002). On the basis of median value of happiness, data of the sample are split into two groups- 1st group- below the median value and 2nd group- equal and above the median value. Inferential t-tests were done to find out the significant difference between the two groups on the basis of role stress and stressful life events. Results reveal that there is significant difference between the two groups with regard to four dimensions of organizational role stress, i.e., role ambiguity, role expectation conflict, self role distance and personal in adequacyat .05 level of significance but there is no significant difference in terms of stressful life events.

Keywords

Organizational Role Stress, Stressful Life Events, Happiness

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Anindita Mukherjee ¹, Sanjukta Das ², Atanu Kumar Dogra ²

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

Abstract

The present study aimed to find out the comparison among children with externalized and internalized disorder and the Control group with respect to different traits of personality and their perception of different aspects of parent child relationships. Sample consisting seven children with externalized disorder and eight children with internalized disorder and eight children in the control group were selected on the basis of the inclusion/exclusion criteria. A semi. Structured interview schedule including socio-demographic and clinical information was administered; children were categorised as having the externalized and internalized features by using the Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (Naglieri et al., 1979); and Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck&Eysenck, 1975), Parent Child Relationship Scale (Rao, 1989) were administered. The obtained data had been analyzed by Kruskal Wallis one way ANOVA. Results reveal that there is a significant difference among children with internalized (ID), externalized (ED) features and control group with respect to rank scores of extraversion, psychoticism, neuroticism, lie score of personality, and perception of different aspects of parent child relationship, i.e., rejecting (from father&mother), demanding (from mother), and neglecting (from mother) symbolic reward (from father), loving (from mother), object reward (from father&mother), neglecting(M) .

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Anindita Mukherjee ¹, Atanu Kumar Dogra ¹, Saranya Banerjee ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

In the present study, researchers want to find out (a) the relationship of various domains of cognitive emotion regulation and several domains of personal meaning with suicidal ideation and (b) the relative contribution of cognitive emotion regulation and personal meaning on suicidal ideation among undergraduate college students. In the present study, the sample consists of two hundred female undergraduate college students, age ranging from 18-21 years. The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski et al., 2001), Personal Meaning Profile (Wong, 1993), The Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (ASIQ) (Raynolds, 1991) were administered on students. Result findings reveal that highly positive significant correlations were found between suicidal ideation and two domains of cognitive emotion regulation, i.e., Self Blame and Catastrophizing. On the other hand two other domains of cognitive emotion regulation, i.e., Positive Refocussing and Positive Reappraisal and two domains of Personal Meaning Profile, i.e., Achievement and Self-Acceptance have significant negative correlation with suicidal ideation. Result also reveals that positive reappraisal (negatively), self-blame (positively) and achievement (negatively) significantly contribute to suicidal ideation among college students.

Keywords

Suicidal Ideation, Personal Meaning, Cognitive Emotion Regulation

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Atanu Kumar Dogra ¹, Soheli Datta ², Anindita Mukherjee ³, Bidisha Saha ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN
2 Kolkata, IN
3 Institute of Neuroscience, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

Choice of career is one of the important tasks in adolescent developmental process. The present study aims to find out the relationship between attitude toward and competence of career maturity and different dimensions of personality, home and school environment among adolescents. The sample comprised 200 girls of 14-15 years, single child, from English medium schools, urban residence, nuclear family type and hailing from Bengali Hindu religion. On each of them, Indian adaptation of Career Maturity Inventory (Gupta, 1989), School Environment Inventory (Mishra, 1983), Home Environment Inventory (Mishra, 1989) and Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck, 1975) were administered. Data were analyzed using product moment correlation coefficient. There is a significant relationship between extraversion (positively), cognitive encouragement, creative stimulation, acceptance (positively) components of school environment and Control, punishment components of home environment (negatively) with that of attitude toward career maturity and all dimensions of competency in career decision making. Deprivation of privileges from home is negatively related with all dimensions of competency in career maturity among adolescents.

Keywords

Career, Adolescence, Personality, Home, School.

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Poonam Saha ¹, Asmita Karmakar ², Aparajita Chakroborty ³, Anindita Mukherjee ⁴, Manisha Bhattacharya ⁵, Samannita Lala ⁶, Hillol Mukherjee ⁷, Atanu Kumar Dogra ⁸, Jishnu Bhattacharya ⁹, Ashis Mukhopadhyay ¹⁰

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 UGC Senior research fellow, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
4 Clinical Psychologist, Department of Health and Family Welfare, West Bengal, IN
5 Clinical Psychologist, Autism Society, West Bengal, IN
6 Psychologist, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
7 Institute of Advance Studies in Education, Tripura, IN
8 Department of Psychology University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
9 Neuropsychiatrist, Suri Sadar Hospital, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of West Bengal, West Bengal, IN
10 Department of Psychiatry, West Bengal Medical Education Service, West Bengal, IN

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The purpose of the present study was to construct a tool to measure academic engagement among school students and to test the tool's usability. An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted in this tool construction. The processes include - conceptualization and generation of items with five-point responses, relevant judgement of these items, item validity and identification of factor hierarchical structure, determining psychometric properties of tool. The study was done based on 401 adolescent school students of Tripura state of India, selected through purposive sampling technique and statistical analyses was done using IBM SPSS 22.The S-CVI results show .87 ( S-CVI/average) which indicates high content validity of overall academic engagement scale. EFA on this scale reveals a) initiation, b) Maintaining attention, c)using engagement strategy d) exploration e) Outcome Analysis f)Persistence g) Disengagement Strategy making h) valence in academic process as 8 components among 49 items. Two second order components 'Perceived valence of academic process' and 'execution' were extracted from these eight factors. Satisfactory Internal consistency of 8 principal components using Cronbach Alpha (.632 -.768) were found. The tool is effective in assessing the academic engagement of adolescent school students.

Keywords

Academic Engagement, School Students, Scale Construction.

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Suchandra Chakraborty ¹, Asmita Karmakar ², Aparajita Chakraborty ³, Anindita Mukherjee ⁴, Tapolagna Das ⁵, Manisha Bhattacharya ⁶, Atri Sanyal ⁷, Saranya Banerjee ², Anwista Ganguly ⁷, Urmimala Ghosh ⁸, Arumina Mitra ⁹, Jaspreet Kaur ¹⁰, Atanu Kumar Dogra ¹¹, Jishnu Bhattacharya ¹², Sanjukta Das ¹¹

Affiliations
1 MPhil Trainee Clinical Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 UGC Senior research fellow, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
4 Clinical Psychologist, Department of Health and family welfare, Govt of West Bengal, IN
5 Department of Psychology, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Lagda, West Bengal, IN
6 Clinical Psychologist, Autism Society, West Bengal, IN
7 State aided college teacher, Department of Psychology, Maharani Kasiswari College, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
8 State Aided College Teacher, Department of Psychology, Maharani Kasiswari College, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
9 MPhil Trainee in Clinical Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
10 DPS, Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
11 University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
12 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
13 Neuropsychiatrist, Suri Sadar Hospital, West Bengal Health Service, Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal, IN

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Identification and community based interventions of stigma are essential aspects of mental health. Considering this context, on the basis of theoretical conceptualization of stigma related to mental illness and current socio-cultural scenario, we attempted to construct a Bengali standardized scale to measure 'mental illness stigma in general population'. Initially, content of the fifty seven items were generated from experts' opinions under the domains of three components of stigma- 'stereotypes (cognitive knowledge structures), evoked emotions and attitudinal/behavioural consequences' with three point rating response category using vignettes(depicting any psychiatric disorder, here schizophrenia was considered). Then the scale was administered on 522 Bengali speaking, graduate participates (age range 25-40 years)for item analysis processes. Finally, 54 items were retained considering significant item total correlation and explored under components using exploratory factor analysis. Satisfactory test retest and internal consistency reliability were found for all domains of newly developed stigma scale.

Keywords

Stigma, Mental Illness, Scale, Mental Health.

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Aparajita Chakraborty ¹, Kalpojhoti Kashyap ², Atri Sanyal ³, Anwista Ganguly ³, Saranya Banerjee ⁴, Tapolagna Das ⁵, Urmimala Ghosh ⁶, Asmita Karmakar ⁴, Atanu Kumar Dogra ⁷

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
3 State Aided College Teacher, Department of Psychology, Maharani Kasiswari College, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
4 UGC Senior Research Fellow, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
5 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Lagda, West Bengal, IN
6 UGC Junior Research Fellow, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
7 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

Socio-demographic variables are important parameters of stigma towards people with alcohol use disorder. The present study explores whether the attitude towards alcohol use disorder is shaped by the belief system, along with focusing on the relationship between belief and attitude. It also investigates whether such attitude depends on the effects of sex and profession of the vignette, resulting in stigma. The study included 565 college-going students pursuing their graduation or post-graduation studies, age ranging 19 to 23 years. Participants were administered a Personal Information Schedule, Belief Towards Mental Illness Scale and Attitude to Mental Illness Questionnaire in modified form, consisting of short vignettes. A structured interview was conducted to explore the cause behind the differences in the attitude of the participants toward alcohol use disorder. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were done. The transcripts of the interview were qualitatively analysed in terms of Open and Focus Coding. Finding shows profession, sex and their interaction effect have significant impact on attitude towards alcohol use based on the story of vignettes. Association of dangerousness and poor interpersonal relationship skills with the negative attitude towards alcohol use disorder were found. Qualitative Analysis revealed the impact of socio-cultural and demographic factors, in shaping the participants' attitude towards alcohol use disorder. The present study reveals that socio-cultural and demographic variables determine the beliefs and attitudes, thereby resulting in the social discrimination, which need to be considered while designing therapeutic intervention.

Keywords

Alcohol Use Disorders, Attitude, Belief, Vignette, Socio-Cultural, Demographic.

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