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Nitin Kumar Verma ¹, Girishwar Misra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, IN

Abstract

Research has indicated the role of daily spiritual experiences and value and belief as a social phenomenon and one of its striking functions is to integrate people into social groups. Groups adhere to their established systems with a given conviction that in return affects their sense of perceived well-being. The present study tries to identify the impact of daily spiritual experiences, values and beliefs on the social well-being status of major religious communities in the Indian setting. Social well being scale was used to measure social integration, social acceptance, social isolation, social coherence and social contribution. Daily Spiritual Experiences and Value and Belief were measured by Fetzer's scale of religiosity. Sample includes 100 participants equally selected from Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh communities. Findings of the study show significant differences in relation between Daily Spiritual Experiences of Religious Value and Belief, and social well-being among different religious communities.

Keywords

Private Religious Practices, Daily Spiritual Experiences, Social Well Being.

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Abhijit Mishra ¹, Girishwar Misra ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Ramanujan College University of Delhi, Delhi, IN
2 Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

The pattern of self-construal, and various self motives i.e. self-esteem, self-liking and competence, in relation to gender and collectivism among young adults (n=194) were investigated. The results indicated high collectivist participants evinced high interdependent self-construal and positive self-esteem. The high and low collectivists shared similar pattern on other measures. The female participants showed strong independent self construal, high positive self-esteem, self-liking and self-competence than the males. Collectivism operated as a more crucial variable among males than females. The results seem to indicate that the influence of gender reflected social class variations. Future work needs to focus on patterning of self construal, understanding of cross situational variations in self construal and collective self esteem.

Keywords

Self-Construal, Individualism, Collectivism, Self-Esteem, Self-Liking and Competence, Self-Motives.

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