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Assessing the Impact of Ethnicity on Psychological Correlates of School Teachers

Page: 77-82 Sadique Razaque Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhand. Teachers are the backbone of schools. They affect the school system in many ways. They are a role model for students. Their personality, attitude, and motivation affect the children. This study assesses the impact of ethnicity on temperament, altruism and psychological hardiness of schoolteachers. For this, […]

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Locus of control and learned optimism as predictors of happiness in students in school

Page: 73-76 Aditya Chamuah and  R Sankar The present research was executed to elucidate the role of locus of control and learned optimism on happiness of school students. The sample consisted of 60 students studying10th standards.. They were assessed by scales of locus of control , learned optimism  and happiness. The results of correlation coefficient

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Emotional Abuse: Prevalence & Gender Comparison among Indian Adolescents Shah Alam

Page: 65-72 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Approximately 236.5 million adolescent population are living in India which is 19.6% of country’s total and highest in the world. Only 40% of young students can attend secondary school. The basic aim of the present study is to find out emotional abuse among male and

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Neuropsychological Test Battery

Page: 60-64 D.Vasantha Prabha and Sarah Manickaraj GBT Centre, Chennai   Presidency College, Chennai. Neuropsychological assessment has become increasingly dependent upon the use of test batteries. The objective of the study is to standardize the Neuropsychological test battery among 90 people with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. The test battery comprised of four sub-scales namely cognitive disability,

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Role of School Family Partnerships (SFPs) in Promoting Internal Assets and Positive Student Development

Page: 52-59 K. Saksena P.P.N. (PG) College, (CSJM University), Kanpur, India.   Internal assets like happiness, life-satisfaction, hope and optimism, strength of character, positive self-concept, emotional regulation, empathy and pro-social behaviour of the school going students are very important for effective teaching-learning process. A happy, satisfied, hopeful and optimist student is likely to grasp and

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Hidden Curriculum Vs Contemporary Approaches to Moral Education – Need and Challenges

Page: 47-51 K.Jayanthi Rani Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai Moral development concerns rules and conventions about just interactions between people. Contemporary social life is becoming more complex with the advent of rapid advancements in science and technology and the fast-paced, largely digitally engulfed lifestyle. Technological advancement paradoxically offers both anonymity and the risk of exposing

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Intelligence, Locus of Control and Self-Esteem correlates to Academic Achievement among High School Students

Page: 42-46 Zokaitluangi University of Mizoram, Mizoram, India Our intelligence, locus of control and self-esteem relationship to academic achievement is well established. The objective of this research is to examine a significant relationship among the dependent variables, and independent effect of academic achievement and gender, and interaction effect of ‘academic and gender’ on dependent variables

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Exploring Perceived Sources of Happiness, Psychological Well-being and Coping among Institutionalized Buddhist Monks of Sikkim State of India

Page: 34 – 41 Kinnari Kashyap    Kakoli Das    Satyananda Panda Sikkim University, Department of Psychology, Gangtok (Sikkim) The present study was done to understand the factors contributing to the enhancement of happiness, well-being, and coping mechanism. For this purpose, 30 Buddhist monks (Age Mean = 39.9 and SD= 4.97) were randomly selected for in-depth interview

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Measurement of Adolescent Well-being: Application of Rough Set Theory

Page: 25 – 33 Meena Hariharan, C. Raghavendra Rao, Meera Padhy & S.V.S. Sai Prasad The purpose of the study was to develop and standardize a new self-report scale to measure the well-being of Indian adolescents. One of the significant approaches of the study was to adopt a new mathematical method—Rough set theory—to derive a

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How Teachers Enable School Students to be Resilient in Times of Ranau Earthquake

Page: 9-19 Soon Singh A/L Bikar Singh and Balan Rathakrishnan Faculty of Psychology and Education University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia The Ranau Earthquake that struck on 5, June 2015 was a new disaster in Sabah and caused many Sabahan in panic. The unpredicted disaster also caused serious impact on all aspects of life in Sabah. The

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