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Rajul N. ¹, Sunita K. Damodar ¹, Alka Ranjan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research (IIPR), Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

With the increase in profound changes in the lives of Indian Women, fulfilling the various degrees of roles in their life from maintaining their family, job, domestic help, business, looking after the traditions and various other domains or life facets has had an impact on their psychological well-being, quality of life and life satisfaction. However, when it comes to Jain community, women are bounded by a lot of cultural and religious factors affecting their overall satisfaction in life. Hence, it becomes essential to identify how life satisfaction differs among women with a job profile and one without it. The aim of the present study is to examine the difference on life satisfaction among married working and non-working women belonging in the Jain Community. The present study consisted of 55 participants (30- married working women & 25- married non-working women) belonged to the age range of 23- 39 years and had a minimum of marriage and work experience of at least 1 year. Participants belonged from Tier-1 cities of India namely, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, and Ahmadabad. Data was collected through administration of Life Satisfaction Scale, through offline mediums. Results indicate that, there is no significant difference on life satisfaction among married working and non- working women belonging in the Jain Community.

Keywords

Life Satisfaction, Married Working Women, Married Non-working Women, Jain Community.

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H. Chinmai ¹, Sunita K. Damodar ¹, Alka Ranjan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research (IIPR), St. Anthony's Friary, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Today's emerging adults live in a globalized and networked world, set apart by high-end information transfer, increased risks, genuinely low social mobility, and more inequality- considering all this, knowledge is wealth. Young people are necessitated to become resilient and adaptable as it is a fast-paced world. However, several youths are struggling to seek out a way to employment, economic security, and well-being. The aim of the analysis is to study the Level of Optimism and Psychological well-being among female emerging adults. The Psychological wellbeing scale which is developed by Ryff (Ryff & Singer, 1989) and the Life Orientation Test-Revised which is developed by Scheier, Carver, and Bridges (1994) were used for the analysis. A total of 120 participants (females) between the age group of 18-25 were chosen for the study. One Way ANOVA was used for data analysis and the findings indicated that there is an influence of Optimism on Psychological well-being, and a difference was seen between the three levels of Optimism.

Keywords

Optimism, Psychological Well-being, Female Emerging Adults.

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Arshia Chatterjee ¹, Sunita K. Damodar ¹, M. A. Hema ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The survey was conducted in a bid to explore the positive meta-emotion, mindfulness and the positive influence of metacognition on well-being among emerging adults. Positive metacognitions and meta-emotions (PMCE) can be termed as having resilient and adaptive metacognitive principles concerning emotional and cognitive procedures when confronted with a puzzling condition. A questionnaire on Positive Metacognitions and Positive MetaEmotions Questionnaire (PMCEQ-18, Beer & Moneta 2010) was utilized for the current study. Mindfulness entails the awareness that involves consciously appearing for one's moment-to-moment knowledge and experience. Mindfulness scale developed by Singh, Junnarkar, and Kaur (2016) was used for the present study. Well-being refers to a state of optimal experience and functioning. Well-being scale developed by Singh, Junnarkar, and Kaur (2016) was used for the present study. The sample consisted of 202 female participants, sampling technique used was convenient and snowball sampling. Results indicated that both PMCE (p=.000) and mindfulness (p=.007) have significant influence on well-being. Further it was seen that PMCE and mindfulness do not have a significant interaction effect (p=0.899) on well-being. The findings have broad implications for designing intervention programs for teaching the meta-level cognitive skills like PMCE and mindfulness to the emerging adult population. Further, it builds in scope for future research for better understanding the constructs mindfulness and adaptive metacognitions and its relation theoretically.

Keywords

Mindfulness, Positive Meta-emotions and Positive Metacognitions, Well-Being.

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