Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Deepika Sharma ¹, Madhu Jain ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Today's youth has limitless, profound never ending energy, but the energy needs some direction to flow. If there is no direction, it is all confusion. Every man is in difficulty in so many ways. Out of so many human beings who are suffering; there are a few who are actually inquiring about their position. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. Just information is not education. It is culturing one's behavior, culturing one's attitude and the ability to perceive things better. Traditionally the emphasis in education has been placed on academic achievement, yet the true measure of success in life is health, happiness, enthusiasm, well-being and the ability to deal effectively with life's challenges. It's spirituality that is making the youngsters beam and helping them find happiness and contentment besides bringing balance to their lives. Many youngsters are going the spiritual way to develop a positive attitude in life; besides spirituality also helps become better human beings.Thus, the present paper aims to explore the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and psychological well-being among the college going students (50 females and 50 males) different colleges of the Jaipur district of Rajasthan. They were administered Spiritual intelligence scale developed by Hingar, Mathur and Bharadwaj (2008). Subjective Well-Being Scale by Hingar, Mathur and Bharadwaj (2008). The data were analyzed by the multiple correlation. The results indicate the positive relations among the variable under study, although no gender differences were found to be significant.

Keywords

Spiritual Intelligence and Subjective Well-Being.

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Pooja Sahu ¹, Urmila Rani Srivastav ², Madhu Jain ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IN

Abstract

Low birth weight has always been considered as the single most important factor of infant's future chances of survival, healthy growth and mortality. Women employees require special attention and protection during their pregnancy, because of pregnancy may decrease their capacity to cope withmany condition of working environment. Hence, the major objective of the present review was to examine the characteristics of working environment which are associated to adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery and low birth weight. Studies published since 1988 to 2014 were systematically reviewed, and analyzed. The specific risk factors which were the focus of this review were: occupational stress, occupational fatigue, long working hours, heavy lifting, prolonged standing and shift work during pregnancy. The review paper ended with implications, recommendations and concluding comments.

Keywords

Working Women, Pregnancy, Low Birth Weight, Preterm Delivery.

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Yogesh Kumar Jindal ¹, Madhu Jain ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Present study was designed to find out the comparison between father and mother of differently abled children on hope and Happiness among the parents of differently abled children sample consisted of 40 parents (23 fathers & 17 mothers) within the age range of 30-45 years adopting purposing sampling method from milestone special school of Jaipur city of Rajasthan state (India). For this purpose, Adult Hope scale developed by Snyder (1991) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire developed by Argyle and Hills (2000) were administered, t-test was applied to analyze the data. The findings revealed that statistically no significant difference was found between fathers and mothers on both hope and Happiness.

Keywords

Happiness, Hope, Differently Abled Children.

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