Self and Personality Studies

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1 59 Self and Personality Studies 78. Heinze, Ruth-Inge (Saybrook Graduate School). The multiplicity of being: an investigation of multiple personality and possession. Journal of Indian Psychology Vol. 22 No. 2 July 2004, Studies the multiplicity of being and investigates multiple personality and possession. Authors propose that we all harbor multiple personalities in the recesses of our mind and we are not always aware of these personalities wanting to come to life. Furthermore, even when we know about some of the potentials inside of us, not all of us manage the switch from one personality to another well, or we surprise ourselves when emotionally charged situations bring out a part of us we are not so familiar with. We may also experience that same phenomenon in others, when we see an apparently dull witted person coming up with an inspiring insight we had no indication this individual would be capable of. What constitutes a personality? where are we deceived by wrong notions and defective terminology? To clarify these issues is the purpose of this essay. 79. Jadhav, SG and Havalappannavar, NB. (Karnatak University). Impact of yoga on self-concept. Journal of Indian Psychology Vol. 26 No 1&2 January & July 2008, Research studies have been proved that the practice of yoga brings profound change in individual. Yoga is a way of life and teaches us how best to live for the well-being of the individual and development of healthy society. Positive changes in the life style of the individual can be brought through practicing it. Yoga develops the physical, mental, intellectual emotional, and spiritual components, which help in building up a sound personality. Self concept is the sum total of a persons perception, feelings and belief about himself. 80. Majda Tarannum and Nama Khatoon (Aligarh Muslim, University,Aligarh,U.P). Self-Esteem and Emotional Stability of Visually Challenged Students. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, July 2009, Vol. 35, No Studies certain demographic variables as determinants of self esteem and emotional stability of visually challenged students. The sample constitutes 100 visually challenger students of ahmadi school

2 60 Indian Psychological Abstracts and Reviews for blinds, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,out of which 63 are boys and 37 girl belonging to the age range of 5-18 year. The tools self-esteem inventory and emotional stability test for children wear used for the study. The data collected wear analyzed statistically by using stepwise regression analysis. Out of the demographic of gender, age, class, family system and area of living, only gender emerged as the significant predictor of emotional stability of visually challenged students and none of the demographic variables statistically by using stepwise regression analysis self -esteem of these students. 81. Roy, Debdulal Dutta (Kolkata). Self- Efficacy of agricultural farmers: a case study. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, July 2009, Vol. 35, No Presents a case study regarding self efficacy of agricultural farmers. Self efficacy of agricultural farmer farers to judgment of his capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of agricultural performance. Current study examined correlates of farmers self-efficacy. Initially, following the interview with farmers, agricultural officers and members of KPS (krishi prajukti sahayak ) Bengali version 20-item summated rating scale with 5 point rating categories was developed to assess self-efficacy of agricultural farmers. Date were collected from 33 agricultural farmers of dumajuli village of bhangar block, south 24 pgs. West Bengal, Reliability in terms of internal consistency among the items was high (cronbach s alpha=0.75). it was noted that self-efficacy was related with multiple crop and jute production significantly. Results were discussed in terms of reciprocal deterministic proposition of self-efficacy suggested by Bandura. Findings have major implications in psychological counseling to the agricultural farmers. 82. Sharma, Sagar and Monica Sharma (Punjab University, Chandigarh, India). Self, social identity and psychological wellbeing. Psychological Studies (July-Sept 2010) 55(3), Examines the concepts of self, social identity, and psychological well-being; also integrates empirical evidence that relates various self-aspect or social identities to psychological well-being; it analyzes within a stress and coping framework the well-being consequences of socially devalued self or threatened identities, perceived

3 61 discriminations, challenges of acculturation and identity management; and Delinates the role of self, social identity and related psycho-social variables as moderators and mediators in pathways leading to psychological well-being. Besides listing some methodological issues and empirical deficits, major concerns for future research also identified. An explicit self and social identity perspective of this research synthesis brings personal and social aspects together, and this interface offers exciting opportunities for research advancement. 83. Sibnath Deb and Anjana Bhattacharjee (University of Calcutta, Kolkata). Self-Esteem of Depressive Patients. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, July 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2, Seeks to ascertain the self esteem of depressive patients. A group of 118 depressive patients was covered in the study and they were selected from different government and private heath care centers flowing incidental sampling government and private health care centers following incidental sampling technique. Data were collected by Background information schedule and self esteem inventory. Three hypotheses were formulated and were verified by applying suitable statistical tests. Findings revealed that self esteem of depressive patients and normal population of same age group differed significantly (P<0.01) which indicates that depressive patients have low self esteem. Again findings revealed that selfesteem that self esteem of male and female depressive of same age group also differed significantly (P<0.01),which indicate that male depressive patients possess high self esteem than those of man female depressive patient. Further, Self esteem of depressive patients across chromaticity of the disease also differed significantly (P<0.01) which indicates the depressive patients who were suffering from depression for more than last one year possessed low self esteem as compared to the depressive patients who wear were suffering from depression for the last one year. 84. Singh, Bhupinder and Rakhi Udainiya (Barkatullah University, Bhopal). Self- Efficacy and Well-Being of Adolescents. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, July 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2, Investigates the effect of type of family and gender on self efficacy and well-being of adolescents. Family is the source of any

4 62 Indian Psychological Abstracts and Reviews individual and one of the motivating fact our for human being to grow and achieve one hundred adolescents (50 boys and 50 girl) from joint and nuclear families were administrated the measure of measures of self efficacy and well being. Data were analyzed by ANOVA.results revealed a significant effect of type of family and gender on self efficacy. The interaction between type of family and gender was also found to be significant; however neither family type nor gender had significant effect on the measure of well-being. 85. Singh, Purnima. Janak Pandey, Shruti Tiwari, Kavita Pandey, Pratibha Maurya. (Allahabad University). Perceived justice of available opportunities and self-esteem, collective esteem and social exclusion: a study of three religious groups in India. Psychological Studies (June 2009)54: Seeks to understand variation in perceived justice in terms of opportunities existing in five different domains i.e. social prestige, economic, educational, employment and political by the Hindu Majority (N=100) and Muslim (N=100) and Christian (N=76) minorities in India. In addition, the study also aimed to understand the relationship of perceived justice with self-esteem, collective esteem and social exclusion. Male and female participants (N=276) of the study were either of high or low caste, and were of employed or unemployed status from a north Indian city. The results indicate that justice perception is determined by religion and caste not by gender and employment status. The majority Hindus perceived significantly higher perceptions of justice than Christians and Muslims minorities on all four domains except education. For education the minority Muslim group had lower justice perception than Hindus and Christians who did not differ significantly. The three groups differed significantly in their ratings of social exclusion with maximum exclusion perceived by Christian and minimum by Hindus. Results have implications for development initiatives. 86. Sinha, S., SC, Prasad and OP Sharma (University of Rajasthan). A critical reapprisal of self concept. Journal of Indian Psychology Vol. 21 No. 2 July 2003, Presents a critical reappraisal of self concept. The viewpoint that the concept of self similar transient states can prove to be an accurate predictor of performance, is indeed highly questionable. Findings of the micro-analysis show further lack of evidence when

5 63 a measure of congruence is based on the subset of activities. The self-efficacy of expectations were tested using the micro-analytic methodology, prove to be a poor predictor of approach behaviour. The tragedy and the destiny of this system is that expectations based on peoples conviction of their own effectiveness does not influence coping behaviour. Verification of operative mechanisms requires experimental evidence, to support linkage between application of treatment procedures and perceived self-efficacy. The importance of body image is negative as it has been discussed, discovered in terms of distortions in morbid mental states. To relate body-image distortion directly to thought disorders is indeed superfluous, overpresumptive and overdeterministic and perhaps naïve and over-simplistic. Synder and William (1982) offered varied a priori explanations of work-motivation-in terms of self-theory, alone.