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Parul Kalia ¹, Sarita Saini ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab), IN

Abstract

Metacognition refers to one’s “thinking about thinking” and is often defined by its accompanying skills such as monitoring and evaluation. Often researchers use metacognition as an overarching umbrella term but cognitive and educational theorists argue as to whether metacognition is a single construct or made up of distinct, differentiable factors. Metacognition has also been acknowledged as an abstract thinking ability known to enhance learning outcomes. The present research has made an attempt to assess the metacognitive skills among the students of the constituent colleges of PAU Ludhiana. The sample included 200 college students, in age range of 17-18 years. Metacognitive Awareness Inventory developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994) was used to measure the metacognitive skillfulness of the selected subjects and subsequently an attempt was made to prepare guidelines for parents and teachers to create a metacognitive environment since early years through daily interventions to strengthen their learning outcomes.

Keywords

Metacognition, Planning, Evaluation, Debugging

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Parul Kalia ¹, Sarita Saini ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Caregiving of a dependent elderly is one of the gruelling tasks that develops burden of stress among caregivers. The caregiver stress is an important and negative parameter which is harmful for the primary caregivers. In fact, the burden upon the primary caregivers ultimately changes the perception of quality of life. The overburdening of the tasks viz. household as well as caregiving and that is also without required amount of help leads to poor quality of life of the primary caregivers. The present study was conducted on a sample of 60 primary caregivers from middle socio-economic status families situated in the district of Ludhiana city of Punjab. Zarit Burden Interview developed by Zarit et al. (1980) was used to assess the caregiver stress of the primary caregivers. The quality of life of the respondents was assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref questionnaire which was developed by World Health Organization (1997). The results revealed that a major proportion of the respondents reported to possess a low level of quality of life. Statistically significant association was found between the caregiver stress and the overall quality of life as well as across different domains of quality of life of the primary caregivers.

Keywords

primary Caregiver, Caregiver Stress, Quality of Life.

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Parul Kalia ¹, Sarita Saini ¹, Deepika Vig ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Family caregivers have played an important role in our society for granting care to the aged. They are playing crucial role in our care system by providing a significant quantity of health and long-term care for the aged person, chronically ill and disabled. The act of care-giving is not an easy task and can become more tedious when one is caring for a family member who is solely depending on the primary caregiver for everything. This situation could be the reason for many challenges which can affect the quality of life of the primary caregivers. The present research has made an attempt to assess the burden of stress among the family caregivers across varying stages of adulthood who were primarily responsible for care of dependent elderly. The sample included 60 families of primary caregivers who were taking care of the dependent elderly in their family from the Ludhiana city. The Zarit Burden Interview developed by Zarit et al. (1980) was used to measure the burden of stress on caregivers. The results reflected a major proportion of primary caregivers experiencing severe level of stress along with statistically significant differences between primary caregivers of young and middle adulthood stage.

Keywords

Primary Caregivers, Caregiver Burden, Dependent Elderly.

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