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Hillol Mukherjee ¹, Nilanjana Sanyal ¹

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

Abstract

Subjective well-being (SWB) refers to-people's evaluation of their lives-including cognitive judgments such as life satisfaction, and affective evaluations (mood and emotions) such as positive and negative emotional feelings. It seems, therefore, reasonable to assume that the factors of happiness lie both in the environment and within the individual. With this, the study aimed at finding out the relationship between SWB and a set of psychological characteristics. On the basis of literature, it was expected that problem focused coping, social support, and the different ego-functions will have positive contributions to SWB while role stress, emotion focused coping pattern will have negative or no contribution to happiness. The present study attempts to synthesize and evaluate the factors present in organizational role stress, individuals' unique coping styles and ego-functions which might play an effective role in the development of SWB on one hand, and on the other hand, might also cause deterioration in SWB of the tribal population of Tripura. The study was conducted over a sample of 800 working people drawn from different government and non-government organizations of Tripura. Result showed that the tribal people are significantly happier, stress-free than the nontribals that can be attributed to their simple life style and less competitive nature.

Keywords

Coping, Ego-Functions, Role Stress, Subjective Well-Being.

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Poonam Mukherjee ¹, Hillol Mukherjee ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Tripura University, Tripura, IN
2 Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Govt.of Tripura,Tripura, IN

Abstract

A group of 30 children from single parent families were compared to 30 children from intact families to see whether the former would show any difference with the later in terms of General Well being, and Level of Aggression particularly taking the tribal population of Tripura state into consideration. The present study attempts to synthesize and evaluate the mere presence of both the parents which might play an effective role in the development of General Well Being. Standardized Psychological Tests (Questionnaires) were administered following standard procedures given by the respective test devices. Results showed that as expected the children belonging to single parent families differ significantly in terms of their General Well being, and Level of Aggression when compared to the children from the intact families. And the children from the single parent families are having a very higher level of aggression which may contribute to their poor level of general wellbeing.

Keywords

Single Parent Family, Intact Family, Aggression, General Well-Being.

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Mun Mun Das Biswas ¹, Hillol Mukherjee ², Binapani Saha ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Education, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Government of Tripura, Tripura, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Government of Tripura, Tripura, IN
3 Department of Economics, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Government of Tripura, Tripura, IN

Abstract

Quality is contextual. In the educational context, quality is seen as a complex issue as education is concerned with human being. Human Beings' overall quality is largely depended upon the quality of education provided to them. And it is the role of the teaching community to take up the responsibility to impart quality education among the students. For the prosperity and integrity of nation, quality of teacher education is then an important aspect and it cannot be ignored because teachers' teaching competencies or quality of teaching too is dependent on the quality of teacher education. In the name of development of education, for access to maximum, self-financing teacher education institutions are mushrooming now-a-day s. In a small state like Tripura within a couple of years many institutions have come forward to offer Teacher Education but how far the quantitative expansion has been accompanied a qualitative increase in teacher education is actually a big question. This paper attempts to discuss the strategies for quality enhancement in teacher education that help in designing the program in order to respond to global challenges, ensure a quality outcome so as to serve students of this small state in a better manner.

Keywords

Quality, Teacher Education and Quality Enhancement.

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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

Abstract

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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