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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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Nilanjana Sanyal ¹, Manisha Das Gupta ¹

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

Abstract

HIV/ AIDS appears to be an epidemic in the present day, both at the global and national level. It calls forth a myriad of negative emotions at the detection of HIV, some of the chief ones being denial, anger, depression, fatigue, fear, uncertainty, guilt, and changes in perspective. Counsellors need to take into consideration the darkened affects of such patients to help them to cope with the condition proactively. The present discourse sheds light to the efficacy of post-test counseling in offering adequate psycho-education, helping the system to combat negative emotions adequately and adopting a different perspective toward life in general, being loaded with greater extent of inner realization and deeper philosophy to embrace the reality gracefully. The “emotional crises” faced by such individuals has also been explained from the experiential perspective.

Keywords

HIV/AIDS, Emotional Trauma, Counseling.

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Nilanjana Sanyal ¹, Manisha Das Gupta ¹

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

Abstract

Pregnancy and motherhood are important phases in the lives of both parents, in their relationship and the relationship with their baby. The mother appears to be the central figure in the infant's emotional-relationship based life and mothering seems to be the medium of absorbing experiences of internal and external objects. Mothering formsthepedestalofobject-relationsofthe infant. lnfact,mother-childinteractionandinter-relations strongly hold ground to develop a sense of sound subject-object relations. Mental health of mothers thus is of immense importance in installing healthy reality relations of their children. The present paper deals with a discourse on "motherhood constellation" in the Hfe-growth thematic context. The motherhood trilogy discusses how the self-identity of a woman attains a transition m the canvas of pregnancy Primary mental representations of the mother enable her to identify with the experiences of her infant by means of reflection leading to subtle adjustments m relation to her handling of her baby and mature subject-object relations.

Keywords

Pregiancy, Motherhood, Object-Relations.

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