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Phooljani Ghosh ¹, Tilottama Mukherjee ¹

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

Abstract

In recent years, psychology has spread its wings and left its undeniable marks into many areas. Psycho-oncology is one such area where it works on assessing the mental states of cancer patients and offering ways to reduce stress. The term Cancer immediately causes fear and hopelessness among patients. Among women, Breast cancer is a major cause of mortality across the world. Breast cancer triggers wide range of adverse psychological conditions; both as emotional reactions to the disease and as the side effects of the treatment modules. Factors like pain, nausea, vomiting, decreased sleep are natural side effects of the cancer treatment, but when it comes with psychological reactions such as anger, hopelessness, helplessness, anxiety, depression, fear of relapse, the journey through the disease course becomes unbearable. In last few years, patients have shown in increased amount of interest on alternative and complementary medicine and intervention procedures and Mindfulness has proved to be the choice of many. Mindfulness has its ischolar_main in Eastern Spiritual beliefs and it works on the unity of mind and body as a whole. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) module is devised and designed so to reduce stress and to improve a person's quality of life. Mindfulness is an attribute of consciousness long believed to promote well-being. Mindfulness meditation as a means of relaxation, reduction of psychological distress, and symptom control has a demonstrated utility across a spectrum of health care concerns including Cancer.

Keywords

Cancer, Psychology, Stress, Mindfulness, Breast Cancer, MBSR

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Tilottama Mukherjee ¹, Phooljani Ghosh ², Kasturi Sengupta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, West Bangal, IN

Abstract

Over the past few years, increasing numbers of Indian mothers whose children are still young have started working outside their homes. To explore the impact of this maternal employment, a sample of 120 adolescents, 60 with working mothers and 60 with mothers who were fulltime homemakers, 30 males and 30 females in each sub sample was chosen. Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Bell Adjustment Inventory (student form), and Parental Attachment Questionnaire were administered to study their personality, adjustment pattern and attachment to their parents respectively.Mean,SD and F test were computed. The results revealed that there is a significant effect of the job status of mother on the subject's adjustment in the area of health and hostility-friendliness and a combined effect of both the variables (job status of mother and gender of adolescent) on personality dimension of extroversion-introversion and neuroticism-stability, their adjustment in the area of submissiveness-self assertion and their attachment to their parent.

Keywords

Personality, Adjustment, Parent-Child Relationship.

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Sraboni Chatterjee ¹, Mandabi Bhattacharyya ², Phooljani Ghosh ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology Bijoy Krishna Girls' College, Howrah, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Indira Gandhi Open University, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Victoria Institution College, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

A sample of 100 female workers (50 were domestic workers &50 belonging to self employed groups) was selected for the present study. The variables selected for the study were anxiety (both state & trait) and anger expression. Results revealed interesting findings that significant differences were found only in case of anxiety, anger out and anger temperament. Basically the insecurity regarding job status and flow of wage structure at the end of month made these two subsamples distant from each other. Due to excessive conflict and pressure of family domestic female workers sometimes were abounding to suppress their feelings and hence becomes the worst victim of anxiety. Self employed individuals though suffer from inadequacy feelings but due to better economic homeostasis able to manifest their anger when needed as a result may develop comparatively better personality pattern.

Keywords

Domestic Workers, Anxiety, Anger Expression, Anger Temperament.

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