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L. N. Bunker ¹, A. K. Chaudhary ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology J.N.V. University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN
2 Department of Psychology Govt. M.G. College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Time perception encompasses different subjective time experiences, like: (1) interval length (duration) estimation, and (2) subjective passage of time judgments, defined as the perceived speed of time passage. This study aims to investigate and clarify the impact of task difficulty, temporal relevance and hedonic interest on both interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments. Another aim of the study is to investigate whether interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments are related. The results of the present study indicate that task difficulty and temporal relevance have a significant impact on interval length judgments. In terms of their interaction, the results show that when the task is simple, a high temporal relevance leads to interval length overestimates. Another major finding of this study was that subjective time passage judgments seem to be affected by the same factors as interval length estimation. In other words, results indicate that both temporal relevance and level of task difficulty have a significant impact on subjective time passage judgments. Also, we found a significant correlation between interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments, indicating that a longer interval estimate is associated with a slower perceived time passage. The results of the present study are discussed in terms of the attentional models of time perception.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Ajay K. Chaudhary ²

Affiliations
1 J.N. V. University, Jodhpur, IN
2 Government M.G. College, Udaipur, IN

Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore the information processing of words related to food, shape and body parts in women of obese and normal weights. Twenty severely obese patients, 20 obese patients and 20 normal weight individuals, all of whom were female, were assessed using implicit and explicit memory tasks. The memory tasks involved words related to food, shape and body parts. Results showed biases in implicit memory measures. Severely obese women completed significantly more food-related words than other words. Obese patients completed significantly more food- and shape-related words than did the other groups. Normal weight females did not show any bias on the implicit memory measures. No explicit memory biases were found in any groups.

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L. N. Bunker ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, IN

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One of the primary causes of stress is believed to be too much emphasis on winning; it is a common-held belief that the "winning at all costs" attitude has been taken too far. Another huge stressor for student athletes is time management balancing school and sports is not an easy task, and can prove to be very stressful. Other stressful events can pile on, eventually leading to what has come to be called Burnout Present investigation is an attempt to study Management of Stress, and Anxiety among athletes It was hypothesized that Level of stress and anxiety will be higher among girls athlete as compared to the boys athlete. The influence of Muscular Relaxation Technique and Breathing control will be helpful in reduction of the level of Stress, and Anxiety among girls and boys athlete.Management of Stress, and Anxiety is a set of dependent variable, whereas Muscular Relaxation Technique is a set of independent variable. It is a field experiment in which Muscular Relaxation Technique used in before and after sessions. Anxiety test by Sinha and Sinha (SCAT) (1968), Life Stress Scale, Gunthey (1998) tests were used. 575 students were randomly selected, out of which 200 were finally taken for the present investigation which was further divided into two groups 100 boys and 100 girls athlete. Finding confirms hypotheses.

Keywords

Stress, Anxiety, Athletes.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Subhash Meena ¹, Laxmi Prajapat ¹

Affiliations
1 J.N.V. University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted to assess the level of Behavioral Assessment of M.R. Children. For this purpose a sample of 10 M.R. children as a subject was taken and a scale of Madras Development Programming System (MDPS) scale with six domains by Jay Chandran was administered. The data have been analyzed by applying the student 't' test to determine the significance of mean difference between pre&post activities of M.R. children. On the basis of the finding of this study it may be concluded that there were significant differences was found between pre&post activities of M.R children.

Keywords

Mental Retardation, Behavioral Assessment.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Subhash Meena ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, J. N. V. University, Jodhpur, IN
2 Department of Psychology, J. N. V. University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

The presents study was conducted to assess the level of neurosis in normal individuals versus Tuberculosis (TB) patients and effect of gender on it. For this purpose an incidental sample of 80 subjects, 25 to 60 years of age: 20 normal males; 20 normal females; 20 Tuberculosis male patients and 20 tuberculosis female patients was taken and the Medico-Psychological Questionnaire (MPQ) by Bharath Raj was administered. The data have been analyzed by applying the student f test to determine the significance of mean difference between groups of normal individuals and T.B. patients. On the basis of the finding of this study it may be concluded that on the whole of general neuroticism there is no large differences in normal and T.B. individuals but on some specific factors of neurosis there were significant difference was found.

Keywords

Neurotic Patterns, TB Patients.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Vishnu Narayan Kucheria ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Marriage is an important institution and the basis of family. The happy and satisfied couples constitute meaningful and mutually satisfying relationship which contributes to Quality of Life. For satisfying this marital satisfaction plays important role. The present study attempts to investigate the relationship between marital satisfaction and quality of life in relation to love matched marriage and arranged marriage couples. A sample of 120 couples (25-40 years) is selected using purposive sampling method. Marital Satisfaction Scale by Fincham and Bradbury Quality of Life by Robin Cohen and Balfour Mount was used to measure marital satisfaction and quality of life among love matched marriage couples and arranged marriage couples. Statistical analysis was done using t-test, Correlation. Results reveal that Love matched female's shows higher marital satisfaction and quality of life as compared to arranged marriage females. No such difference exists among males of love matched and arranged marriages. Male's shows higher marital satisfaction as compared to females among arranged marriage couples but no such significant difference was found among males and females of love matched couples. Among love matched marriages females quality of life is higher than that of males. No such gender difference was found among arranged marriage. Negative relationship exists between quality of life and marital satisfaction. Among arranged marital couples especially male's shows negative relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. But females show positive relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. Among love matched couples especially females show negative relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. But no such significant relationship was present among males who had love marriage.

Keywords

Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life, Love Matched Marriages, Arranged Marriages, Couples.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Varsha Singh ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, IN

Abstract

Adolescent is a growing age when an individual is passing through a lot of internal and external changes. Environment like home environment and institutions where they get educated plays important role in successful transformations. Present study compares the emotional intelligence and personality factor among private and government school students. A sample size of 320 adolescents was selected among which 160 were from private and government school in both groups 80 were males and 80 were females. All the students selected were belonging to IX and X standard in the age of 13-16 years. Emotional Intelligence was measured using Emotional Quotient scale developed by Dalip Singh and Chadda and Personality was measured used NEO-FFI being developed by Costa&McCrae. t-test was applied to compare the difference between the means. Findings of the study reveal that among of boys and girls on results reveal that there is highly significant difference among scores of competency sub-scale and total emotional intelligence where as no such significant difference is present on sensitivity and maturity sub-scale. Overall comparison of private and government schools adolescents shows no significant difference. On overall comparison of boys and girls on personality factors significant differences were found on the extraversion factor and highly significant difference was found on openness component. No significant differences were found on neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and NEO-FFI total scores. On overall comparison of private and government schools adolescents no significant difference was found.

Keywords

Emotional Intelligence, Personality Factors, Secondary Schools, Adolescent.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Monika Gwalani ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Ego strength refers to the ability to maintain the ego by a cluster of traits that together contribute to good mental health. The traits usually considered important include tolerance of the pain of loss, disappointment, shame, or guilt; forgiveness of those who have caused an injury, with feelings of compassion rather than anger and retaliation; acceptance of substitutes and ability to defer gratification; persistence and perseverance in the pursuit of goals; openness, flexibility, and creativity in learning to adapt; and vitality and power in the activities of life. The psychiatric prognosis for a client correlates positively with ego strength. An attempt was made to study ego strength and family environment of patients with schizophrenia. A total of 60 subjects were randomly taken from Jodhpur city, among these 20 subjects were suffering from schizophrenia, 20 were suffering from neurotic disorders and remaining 20 were apparently normal. Hasan's Ego Strength and Family Environment Scale by Joshi and Vyas were administered. Data was analysed using one way ANOVA. Results reveal that on the measures of Ego-Strength, Neurotics and Schizophrenics differ significantly from Normal people, but there was no significant difference between Ego-Strength of Schizophrenics and Neurotics. On the measures of Family Environment, there was no statistical significant difference between the perception of family environment of schizophrenics, neurotics, and normal on relationship dimension, personal growth dimension and system maintenance dimension.

Keywords

Ego-Strength, Family-Environment, Schizophrenia, Neurotic Disorder.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Huma Sheikh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

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Psychological-Wellbeing is a combination of positive development and life-Satisfaction. Positive psychological well-being is not only important for leading happy life but also draws positive impact on person's academic and his personal life achievements. One of the stages in life is the young adulthood, everybody expected to adults they have to try maintaining equilibrium in their responsibilities. Psychological well-being and life-Satisfaction both are cognitive and affective elements, which can be key to one's life and its play in important role in how to live with positive perspective, significant interaction with others, learn to good adaptation, deal with problems etc. Psychological well-being is dynamic concept and life-Satisfaction is multidimensional concept and both are related and includes subjective, social, psychological and social behaviors, That's the reason we focused both dimension/ components. The present investigation was designed to study psychological well-being and life-Satisfaction among young adults with regards to gender and educational sector (government & private). For this purpose a sample of 120 young adults were selected using incidental purposive sampling method among which 60 adults were from government college/universities and 60 adults from private college /universities of district jodhpur. In each group 30 were males and 30 were females, age group of adults -21 years to above. Psychological-Wellbeing was measured using Ryffs psychological well-being scale developed by Carol Ryff and life-Satisfaction was measured using satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) developed by Diener, Robert Emmons, Randy Larson and Sharon Griffin. Findings of the study reveal that no significant difference was found on the measures of Psychological Well-being among male and Females adults. On the measure of life-Satisfaction of male adults were found more satisfied with life. Results of comparison of government and private college/university adults reveals that no significant difference was observed on psychological well-being and life-Satisfaction among government and private college/universities adults.

Keywords

Psychological Well-Being, Life-Satisfaction, Young Adults, Government, Private, College, University.

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L. N. Bunker ¹, Shilpa Chouhan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Female crime is the important factor that influences family's harmony and emotional stability. In recent years, the female crime rate has been a gradual increase, and its growth rate has exceeded that of male crime in the corresponding period. This not only relates with the weakly legal consciousness of a small number of women, but also relates with the families and the society. The study examines the emotional maturity and family environment of criminal and non-criminal women. This is a field study in which purposive sampling technique was used for selecting 25 criminal females and the other 25 non -criminal females were randomly selected. The tools used for data collection were Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh and Bhargava (1999) Hindi Version and Family Environment Scale revised by Joshi and Vyas (1987) Hindi version, t-test was used as statistical technique to analyze the data. The findings reveal that there is statistically significant difference between the emotional maturity of criminal and non-criminal females. On the measures of emotional maturity and subscales only personality disintegration dimension/sub-scale significant difference was found among criminal and non-criminal women. This reveals that criminals often possess a type of personality trait like reaction, phobias formation, rationalization, pessimism, immorality, etc. On the measures of family environment and its subscales significance difference was found on Conflict, Moral Religious Emphasis and Organization .The finding on correlation between emotional maturity and family environment indicate that there was a positive association .Thus, it can be concluded that emotional maturity and family environment affect behaviour of criminal females.

Keywords

Criminal and Non-Criminal Women, Emotional Maturity, Family Environment, Personality Disintegration.

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