Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-114-20221
N. Saksena
{"title":"School Psychology: A Positive Psychology Approach","authors":"N. Saksena","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-114-20221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-114-20221","url":null,"abstract":"The ultimate goal of schools is to educate young people to become responsible, \u0000critically thinking citizens who can succeed in life. Understanding the factors that \u0000stimulate them to become active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive \u0000psychology is a relatively new field of psychology.Positive psychology can be used to \u0000unravel factors that facilitate a student’s sense of agency and active school engagement. \u0000Positive psychology is an emerging applied science that is just beginning to have a \u0000significant impact on schools and school-based interventions. Positive psychology is \u0000also used in school-based interventions from the point of view of public health. \u0000Interventions are given to students at different levels based on their individual needs. \u0000An inordinate number of students report high levels of boredom, anger, and stress in \u0000schools. This scenario often leads to their disengagement from critical learning and \u0000school development. Positive psychology has gained immense popularity within many \u0000areas of the behavioural sciences, including applied psychology. Most of the interest in \u0000positive psychology, however, has been disproportionately focused on adults. (Diener \u0000& Diener, 2009). Child development and the structures that support that development \u0000have received less attention within positive psychology. The attributes of interest to \u0000positive psychologists are Optimism, Hope, Creativity, Self-Efficacy, Virtues of various \u0000types like Forgiveness and Gratitude, and Subjective Well-being are likely to begin in \u0000childhood. It is, therefore, imperative that childhood and those organisations that are \u0000most pertinent to the developing child-family, child, peers, and school—be of high \u0000interest to positive psychologists. The development of a child is facilitated by primary \u0000group and secondary group socialization processes.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84313818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-114-20229
Santwana Mani, Prabhat Kumar Mishra
{"title":"A Focused Approach to Mindful Attention Awareness and Emotion Regulation: Vipassana Meditation","authors":"Santwana Mani, Prabhat Kumar Mishra","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-114-20229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-114-20229","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between mindful attention \u0000awareness and emotion regulation as well as the effect of vipassana meditation on \u0000these two constructs. The Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS-15) and \u0000Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (DERS-36) are used for data collection. Out of 248 \u0000participants, 123 are Vipassana Meditators, who practised Vipassana Meditation at \u0000least five times per week for the previous two years and had attended at least one 10- \u0000day Vipassana Meditation Course from any Vipassana Centre, and 125 are nonmeditators, \u0000who did not practise any meditation at all. The obtained data analysis was \u0000done on SPSS-25 and found to have a significant relationship between mindful attention \u0000awareness and emotional regulation. The results also revealed that there is a significant \u0000difference in the samples’ mindful awareness and emotional regulation. The results of \u0000the study help to complement and understand clearly, as well as present a unique \u0000contribution to the current body of information on Vipassana Meditation and its highly \u0000beneficial impact.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81555321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-114-202210
Basant Kumar Sonber, Suresh Kumar Patel, Mona V. Makhija
{"title":"Role of National Service Scheme (NSS) Programs in Developing Moral Values among College Students","authors":"Basant Kumar Sonber, Suresh Kumar Patel, Mona V. Makhija","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-114-202210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-114-202210","url":null,"abstract":"Values are an integral element of our existence. Values connect each individual to \u0000the social, cultural, and philosophical climate of the society and represent the culture’s \u0000dynamic nature. There are different kinds of values, including universal, social, cultural, \u0000spiritual, and aesthetic values. The present study examines the role of the National \u0000Service Scheme (NSS) programs in developing moral values among college students. \u0000The sample selected for the present study consisted of 250 students from 11 colleges in \u0000different blocks of Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. The subjects’ moral values were \u0000measured by the Moral Values Test constructed by Dubey(2009). Results indicated that \u0000NSS students are better at moral values than non-NSS students.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75464836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s11299-022-00290-y
J. Ortega
{"title":"Learning with insufficient data: a multi-armed bandit perspective on covid-19 interventions","authors":"J. Ortega","doi":"10.1007/s11299-022-00290-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-022-00290-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46177539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s11299-022-00291-x
S. Guercini
{"title":"Scope of heuristics and digitalization: the case of marketing automation","authors":"S. Guercini","doi":"10.1007/s11299-022-00291-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-022-00291-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46768405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s11299-022-00292-w
J. Vilchez
{"title":"Mental footnotes in Socialism: the current social validity of the concept of bourgeoisie from the Marx’s and Engels’ “Manifesto of the communist party”","authors":"J. Vilchez","doi":"10.1007/s11299-022-00292-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-022-00292-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44739252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-112-202211
Megha Kochhar, K. Tripathi
{"title":"Study of Emotional Intelligence and Well-Being among Working Professionals","authors":"Megha Kochhar, K. Tripathi","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-112-202211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-112-202211","url":null,"abstract":"Working professionals’ social and mental capacities are critical to the smooth operation of\u0000organizations. Emotional intelligence (EI) nowadays has become synonymous with mental health,\u0000happiness, and well-being. Looking at the importance of emotional intelligence, the present study\u0000examined the pattern of emotional intelligence and wellbeing with its dimensions of professionals working\u0000as managers in private and government sector banks. It was also investigated whether professional\u0000hierarchy and work tenure produced any significant differences for the aforementioned variables. The\u0000results of the study indicated that professionals working in different sectors, in different cadres, and in\u0000different work tenures indicated significant differences in their perceptions. Similarly, co-relational\u0000analysis results demonstrated that all essential components of well-being (WB) are profoundly,\u0000fundamentally, and decisively linked (p.01) with EI. To be sure, emotion influences how individuals\u0000think and act and influences judgement and information processing. Employees with higher EI can\u0000discover appropriate arrangements all the more easily, work and apply emotional resources sensibly\u0000and can frequently rapidly get social help in correspondence and cooperation with individuals, thereby\u0000lessening the chance of disappointment and the depersonalization achieved by disappointment.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75568925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-112-20226
Aishwarya Jaiswal, Y. Singh, Akanksha Srivastava, Sanjewa Kumar Singh
{"title":"Big-Five Personality Traits, Self-Compassion and Mental Health among University Students","authors":"Aishwarya Jaiswal, Y. Singh, Akanksha Srivastava, Sanjewa Kumar Singh","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-112-20226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-112-20226","url":null,"abstract":"The occurrence and severity of mental health issues among university students is increasing globally. India is also on the same platform when it comes to alarming mental health issues among students. However, most studies so far have been limited to assessing the prevalence and outcomes of psychological issues, and a paucity of studies investigating the protective factors for students’ mental health was observed. With the advent of the salutogenic approach, the research interest in health-protective factors, as opposed to risk factors, has heightened drastically. Given this, the present work investigated the role of personality traits and self-compassion in university students’ mental health. A correlational research design was employed. Participants included university students assessed on Costa and McCrae’s (1992) NEO-Five Factor Inventory, Self-Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003), and Mental Health Inventory (Jagadish and Srivastava, 1983). Data analysis employed Pearson’s correlation and multiple linear regression analysis. Extraversion, agreeableness, and self-compassion were positively associated with mental health, whereas neuroticism was negatively associated. The OCEAN personality traits and self-compassion explained significant variance in mental health, and only extraversion positively and significantly predicted mental health. OCEAN Personality Trait Extraversion is a protective factor for university students’ mental health.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78111144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-112-20224
Radhika Sharma, Ishita U Bharadwaj
{"title":"Unravelling the ‘Help’ in Self-Help","authors":"Radhika Sharma, Ishita U Bharadwaj","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-112-20224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-112-20224","url":null,"abstract":"The present article intends to explore the challenges faced by the urban professionals in reaching for the emotional and professional amidst the neoliberal marketplace, via the narratives salient in Self-Help texts. Self-Help texts embody metaphors that rely on agency bound “bootstrapping” narratives, where individuals are compelled to maximise their agency in terms of tangible profits and fulfil their calculated potential in the social marketplace of competition. The neoliberal marketplace obfuscates the existing inequalities through narratives of multiculturalism and individual empowerment. Deliberation through thematic analysis, this article intends to look into the emergence of the ‘achievable self’ through the prevalence of Self Help texts as a popular genre in the Indian scenario. It also seeks to discuss the mental health challenges faced by individuals in meeting the achievement benchmarks of the current ethos, and how Self-Help texts posit themselves as providing the means to do so. The emergent themes will be discussed in the article in detail. This article seeks to explore the relationship between the reader and self-help texts to better understand the process by which newer conceptualisations of mental wellbeing as an achievement benchmark have emerged.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82195901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mind and SocietyPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.56011/mind-mri-112-202210
Chilka Mukherjee, Ushri Banerjee
{"title":"A comparative study of executive functioning and personality of young adults with alcohol use disorder and internet gaming disorder","authors":"Chilka Mukherjee, Ushri Banerjee","doi":"10.56011/mind-mri-112-202210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56011/mind-mri-112-202210","url":null,"abstract":"The present study attempted to compare young adult males with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and their normal counterparts with respect to their Executive Functioning and Personality. A detailed information schedule, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, Game Addiction Scale, Temperament and Character Inventory and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test were administered to males aged 18-32 years with Alcohol Use Disorder, Internet Gaming Disorder and normal healthy males (N=30). Nonparametric statistical analyses were carried out – Kruskal Wallis test for comparing the mean ranks of three groups (AUD, IGD and Control) taken together. The mean ranks of individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder, Internet Gaming Disorder and control group were found to differ significantly with respect to their total number of errors and the number of categories completed in WCST with the IGD group making the least number of errors and completing the highest number of categories followed by the control group and the AUD group. The mean ranks of the three groups differed significantly with respect to their Cooperativeness with the AUD group scoring the lowest followed by the IGD group and the control group. Individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder were to found to perform better in WCST with respect to the Alcohol Use Disorder as well as the control group and the individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder seem to be similar to those with Alcohol Use Disorder based on their Character dimension of Cooperativeness but not Temperament dimensions.","PeriodicalId":35394,"journal":{"name":"Mind and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80437818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}