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Kamini C. Tanwar ¹, Nitika Grover ¹, Pratima Gulia ¹

Affiliations
1 Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Almost every day we describe and assess the personalities of the people around us. The present paper includes two different dimension of personality, i.e., Depressive and Spiritual Personality. People with depressive personality have a generally gloomy outlook on life, themselves, the past and the future. On the other hand, spiritual personality can be defined as the one who knows how to anchor his lifestyles around his noble attitude towards others and follow the path of moral rectitude. The main objective of the present study is to examine: a) difference between post-graduate male and female students on depressive personality and spiritual dimension of personality; and b) difference between management and non-management students on depressive and spiritual dimension of personality. The Beck Depressive Inventory, developed by Beck, Steer, and Brown (1996) and Spiritual Personality Inventory, developed by Husain, Luqman, and Jahan (2012) were used to collect the data. The sample was collected from 100 P.G. students (50 males and 50 females) among different professional courses like M.B.A, M.tech, M.Sc etc at Amity University, Gurgaon in Haryana. Data was collected by purposive sampling method and analyzed by t-test for finding the comparison between the groups. The result indicates that there is a) significant difference between males and females on depressive dimension of personality and b) significant difference between management and non-management students on spiritual dimension of personality.

Keywords

Personality, Spirituality, Depression

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Priyanka ¹, Nadeem Luqman ¹, Nitika Grover ¹

Affiliations
1 AIBAS, Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The main objective of the paper is to investigate the specific personality factors which are making impact on the college adjustment level of new students. Personality keeps on varying at different age levels. Adolescent is the age which shows maximum variation in personality especially when we move from school to college. During this time, an individual make important life decisions, develop their personal and professional identities, interests and values, and evolve from adolescence to adulthood. Hence, it is very important for an individual to adjust well in college. College adjustment by each student will vary depending on background, experience, and prior schooling. In order to investigate the above mentioned objective investigator collected the sample of 160 first year students from Amity University, Gurgaon. The measures used were NEO-FFI-3 and College Adjustment Scale (CAS). Keeping in view the nature and purpose of the study investigator applied regression and t-test. Analysis result show that three factors are playing significant role in college adjustment i.e. neuroticism, openness and conscientiousness. High level of neuroticism leads to lower level of college adjustment and Individuals high in Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness have consistently demonstrated better overall adjustment to college life than students who score low.

Keywords

Personality, College Adjustment, Students.

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