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Sona Raghuvanshi ¹, Rakhi Kumari ¹

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

Abstract

The present study aims to compare criminals and non-criminals on the basis of psychological factors like social evaluative anxiety, hostility, guilt-feeling and conflict over hostility. The study was conducted on 200 respondents including 100 criminals and 100 non-criminals. The criminals were selected from the four important jails of Bihar namely Patna, Buxar, Gaya and Bhagalpur and equal number of non-criminals (persons having non-criminals record) were also selected from the same four towns of Bihar mentioned above. The sample was purposive one and included only married males in the age group of 21 to 40, who had minimum education up to seventh standard. The scales used were (1) Social Evaluative Anxiety Scale (SEAS), Hindi adaptation of Watson and Friend's Scale of Social Avoidance and Distress and Fear of Negative Evaluation (1969) by Sheikh and Kaushik (1980), and (2) Questionnaire of Hostility, Guilt and Conflict (Q-HGC, Sowaid, 1972). The data obtained were analyzed by t-test. The hypotheses formulated were: (1) The criminals would score higher on social avoidance and distress component of Social Evaluative Anxiety Scale as compared to non-criminals. (2) The criminal group of subjects would score lower in fear of negative evaluation component of Social Evaluative Anxiety Scale than the non-criminal group of subjects. (3) The criminals would score higher on hostility as compared to the non-criminals. (4) The criminal group of subject would score lower on guilt feeling toward hostility than their non-criminal counterparts. (5) The criminal group of subjects would score high on conflict over feeling of hostility than the non-criminal group of subjects. The findings confirmed four hypotheses, while one hypothesis could not be substantiated.

Keywords

Social Avoidance and Distress, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Hostility, Guilt Feeling, And Conflict Over Hostility

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T. M. Balakrishnan Nair ¹, P. G. Remya ¹, R. Harikumar ¹, K. G. Sandhya ¹, P. Sirisha ¹, K. Srinivas ¹, C. Nagaraju ¹, Arun Nherakkol ¹, B. Krishna Prasad ¹, C. Jeyakumar ¹, K. Kaviyazhahu ¹, N. K. Hithin ¹, Rakhi Kumari ¹, V. Sanil Kumar ², M. Ramesh Kumar ¹, S. S. C. Shenoi ¹, Shailesh Nayak ³

Affiliations
1 Information Services and Ocean Sciences Group, ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, 'Ocean Valley', Pragathi Nagar (BO), Nizampet (SO), Hyderabad 500 090, IN
2 CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa 403 004, IN
3 Earth System Science Organization, New Delhi 110 003, IN

Abstract

Wave fields, both measured and forecast during the very severe cyclone Phailin, are discussed in this communication. Waves having maximum height of 13.54 m were recorded at Gopalpur, the landfall point of the cyclone. The forecast and observed significant wave heights matched well at Gopalpur with correlation coefficient of 0.98, RMS e rror of 0.35 m and scatter index of 14%. Forecasts were also validated in the open ocean and found to be reliable (scatter index < 15%). The study also revealed the presence of Southern Ocean swells with a peak period of 20-22 sec hitting Gopalpur coast along with the cyclone-generated waves.

Keywords

Buoys, Phailin, Tropical Cyclone, Swell, Wave Forecast.

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