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Kanu Priya ¹, Gayatri Raina ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, HP, IN

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted to examine the effect of gender, family size and birth order on social adjustment of adolescents. Samples of 150 adolescents (75 males and 75 females) in the age range of 16-18 years, studying in 11th and 12th standard were selected from four English medium schools of Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. Global Adjustment Scale developed by Psy-Com Services (1994) was used for measuring social adjustment among the selected sample of adolescent boys and girls. A 2*2*2 analysis of variance with unequal replicates was carried out to see the independent and interactive effect of gender, family size and birth order on social adjustment of adolescents. Results revealed that gender has established significant effect on social adjustment of adolescent with boys having significantly better social adjustment as compared to girls. Furthermore, findings also revealed that gender was involved in significant higher order interaction effect with birth order. Results clearly indicated that male later born students had better social adjustment as compared to male first born students. In, addition to this, the findings of present study also suggested that female first born students had better social adjustment as compared to female later born students. But the family size does not seem to play its significant role on social adjustment of adolescents in Himachal Pradesh.

Keywords

Social Adjustment, Gender, Family Size, Birth Order, Adolescents.

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Gayatri Raina ¹, Pooja Verma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, H. P. University, Summer Hill, Shimla, IN

Abstract

The present research focuses on academic achievement among adolescents in relation to parent-child relationship. The sample for the study comprised of 100 adolescents i.e. 50 boys and 50 girls in the age group of 14 to 16 years. The entire sample was drawn from the various public schools of Shimla town of Himachal Pradesh. Parent Child relationship scale (Nalini Rao, 1989) and academic achievement was assessed on the basis of total scores of annual examination was administered on the selected sample of boys and girls. T-test was carried out to see the significance of difference between boys and girls on academic achievement. Furthermore, correlation and regression analysis was employed to find out the effect of parent-child relationship on academic achievement. Results indicated that adolescent boys and girls share different relationship with their parents and this relationship affect their academic achievement. Overall, boys scored higher on academic achievement as compare to girls. Neglection and object punishment from father have a significant relation with the academic achievement of boys. On the other hand, protection from fathers has a significant and positive relation with the academic achievement of girls.

Keywords

Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Boys and Girls, Academic Achievement.

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Gayatri Raina ¹, Jagriti ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, IN

Abstract

This study aimed to observe the effect of spiritual intelligence on mental health among university students. The sample comprised o f200 university students (100 males & 100 females) doing post-graduation with the age range of 19-27 years. The tools used for data collection were The Spiritual Intelligence Scale (King, 2008) and The Mental Health Inventory (MHI-38) (The RAND Corporation, 1983). Pearson's Product Moment Correlation was applied to find out the effect of four dimensions of spiritual intelligence (i.e.. Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production, Transcendental Awareness & Conscious State Expansion) on the six component of mental health (i.e.. Anxiety, Depression, Loss of Behavioral/Emotional Control, General Positive Affect, Emotional Ties & Life Satisfaction). The results depicted that among male students: Anxiety had a negative and a significant correlation with personal meaning production, transcendental awareness and conscious state of expansion. Depression had a negative and a significant correlation with personal meaning production and transcendental awareness. Loss of behavioral/emotional control had a negative and a significant correlation with personal meaning production and transcendental awareness. General positive affect was positively and significantly correlated with conscious state of expansion. Whereas, the result revealed that among female students: Loss of behavioral/emotional control was significantly and a negatively correlation with personal meaning production and consciousness state of expansion. General positive affect had a significant and positive correlation with conscious state of expansion. Life satisfaction was significantly and positively correlated with personal meaning production and conscious state of expansion. Thus, it can be concluded that spiritual intelligence had a positive effect on mental health of the selected sample.

Keywords

Spiritual Intelligence, Anxiety, Loss of Behavioral/Emotional Control, General Positive Affect.

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Gayatri Raina ¹, Shivalika Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, Gurugram University, Gurugram, Haryana, IN
2 Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, IN

Abstract

The present study aimed at examining the seven sub variables of psychosocial stressors (i.e. strained interpersonal relationship, excessive responsibilities, financial constraints, marriage related stress, health related problems, adverse situations and perceived threat)as correlates of coping behavior (i.e., problem focused coping, emotion focused coping, & avoidance coping) among male and female bureaucrats of Himachal Pradesh. The sample comprised of 175 bureaucrats (128 male & 47 female bureaucrats). For the purpose of collecting data from the selected sample of bureaucrats two scales have been used, i.e., ICMR Psychosocial Stress Scale (Srivastava, 1992) and Cope Inventory (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989). Correlation and regression analyses were carried out to see the effect of psychosocial stressors on coping strategies among the selected officers. The results revealed that:1. Psychosocial stressors in terms of strained interpersonal relationships, health related problems and adverse situations were found to be negatively and significantly related to problem focused coping among male bureaucrats. Secondly, health related problems and perceived threats were negatively and significantly related to emotion focused coping among male bureaucrats. Among female bureaucrats no significant correlation emerged between seven sub variables of psychosocial stressors and three sub variables of coping behavior.

Keywords

Psychosocial Stressors, Problem Focused Coping, Emotion Focused Coping, Avoidance Coping.

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