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Subject: Family Resource Management × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A study on adoption of green home norms in modern houses
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2019) Harleen Kaur; Gill, Harsharan Kaur
    Adoption of green home norms in modern houses was studied in three smart cities of Punjab viz Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar to find awareness level of respondents regarding environment and their concern for preserving it, adoption level of green home norms in modern houses and constraints in their adoption. Self-structured interview schedule was designed to conduct a survey. Fifty homes, constructed after 2015 were taken randomly from posh localities of each of these cities comprising a total sample of 150. Majority (86%) of respondents perceived that their housing and life style related practices did not contribute in environment degradation, rather 53 per cent blamed agricultural practices. Seventy per cent respondents did not have sufficient knowledge about environment conservation. Only 14 per cent respondents reported little to acute impact on psychological and physical health. Twenty eight per cent respondents made efforts to avoid use of harmful household chemicals. Norms related to proximity of home to civic amenities and conserving natural topography was partially/not adopted in case of 70.50 and 93.33 per cent respondents. All respondents did not adopt rain harvesting and efficient landscape design for enhancing water use efficiency. Eighty six per cent respondents did not adopt renewable energy systems. Ninety, 86.00 and 93.33 per cent respondents did not dispose off building material waste properly, used recycled material and had on-site waste treatment for organic waste respectively. All respondents had no provision of separate smoking area, carbon dioxide sensors and adequate operable window area. Lack of interest was major constraint for not adopting green home norms followed by lack of awareness and high cost.
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    Role of farm women in value addition to farm produce
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Martolia, Divya; Narinderjit Kaur
    The study entitled “Role of farm women in value addition to farm produce” was undertaken to study the existing status of value addition to farm produce in selected households. The study was conducted to determine the role of farm women in value addition to farm produce and to identify the constraints faced by farm women. A self- structured interview schedule was designed to conduct a survey on farm women in rural area of Ludhiana district. For sample selection two blocks from Ludhiana district were randomly selected. Further from each selected block two villages were randomly selected, from each selected village 30 respondents were randomly selected thus making the sample size 120. Results of the study revealed that the existing status of value addition to various farm produce of farm families were reported low, only farm women who were part of women oriented SHG(self help group)were involved in value addition process to farm produce products such as flour, pickle, squash or juice making. Further no value addition in allied farm produce was found in dairy, poultry and bee-keeping as well at secondary and tertiary stage, whereas, few respondents were involved in value addition process in fruits, dairy and honey. The role of farm women in value addition categorized as independently, jointly with other members or no participation. Majority of the farm women were reported no participation at primary stage except in dairy and bee-keeping farm families who had dairy animals and bee boxes participated independently and jointly with other members, whereas, value addition at secondary and tertiary stage mostly performed by farm women who were member of SHG (self help group) only and no value addition was observed in allied farm produce at secondary and tertiary stage. The constraints faced by farm women in value addition to various farm produce was lack of time management due to women involvement in domestic chores, lack of self-confidence, lack of training assistance to farm women, unwillingness to practice value addition because of poor health issue and lack of high cost equipment.
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    A study on goal setting pattern of farm families of different socio-cultural regions of Punjab
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Pavneet Kaur; Gill, Harsharan Kaur
    ABSTRACT The present study entitled “A study on goal setting pattern of farm families of different socio-cultural regions of Punjab” was undertaken to study the existing goal setting pattern, assess the effect of socio-personal factors of the homemakers on the goal setting pattern and explore the constraints in goal setting and attainment of farm families. The study was conducted on 150 respondents comprising 50 respondents from each cultural zones of Punjab i.e., Majha, Malwa and Doaba represented by Dist. Amritsar (village- Khankot), Shri Muktsar Sahib (village- Hari-Ke-Kalan) and Jalandhar (village-Jamsher Khera) respectively. The goal setting pattern was studied on the basis of a goal being SMART i.e. specific, measurable, agreeable, realistic and timely. Results revealed that overall goal setting pattern of farm families was quite erroneous (overall SMART per cent score of 16.83) with attitude goal setting per cent score of 5.86, leisure 9.45, health 11.55, financial 14.20, career 16.89, educational 17.61, spiritual 22.69 and family goal setting per cent score of 36.44. It was further revealed that long term goal setting pattern of farm families was comparatively better (28.96 per cent) than mid-term (12.62 per cent) and short term (8.93 per cent) goal setting pattern as respondents were found to be wishful in the guise of long term goals and quite poor in organising efforts in the form of mid and short term goals directed towards long term goals. A positive but non significant relationship between the age (0.07), education (0.06), family type (0.10), family size (0.05) and family income (0.07) of the respondents and their goal setting pattern was found. Major constraint faced by the respondents while setting the goals was lack of training to set goals (92.40 per cent) and while achieving the goals was frustration due to successive failure in goal achievement and hopelessness due to persistent struggle with uncertainties (86.41 per cent).
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    Occupational stress and its management among young working women from nuclear families of Ludhiana city
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Ch. Olivia Devi; Bal, Sharanbir Kaur
    Occupational stress is stress related to one’s job. It often stems from unexpected responsibilities and pressures that do not align with a person’s knowledge, skills, or expectations, inhibiting one’s ability to cope. Women are especially likely to experience these sources of stress, since they still carry more of the burden of childcare and domestic responsibilities than men. The double pressure of work is having an impact on the growing creed of working women while the number of nuclear families is accentuating the problem due to withdrawal of the support system. Looking at the rising number of working women and increasing amount of stress and its impact on home environment, the present study entitled “ Occupational stress and its management among young working women from nuclear families of Ludhiana city” was undertaken to assess occupational stress and contributing factors in selected categories of young working women, to study the impact of occupational stress on working women and family environment and to identify the coping styles adopted for managing the occupational stress. The study was conducted with a sample of total 150 respondents, 50 each from different professional group namely, private school teachers, nurses from private hospitals and private bank employees were selected from the age group of 25-40 years of age. Results showed that almost all of the respondents were found to be having medium level of stress. It can be further seen that half of the respondents fall in the age group of 31-35 years, were having income of Rs. 20001to 40000per month, working for 8 to 9 hours per day and average distance from work place to home was between 1 to 5 km for 69.33% respondents. Among the factors contributing to stress, time pressure gave more stress followed by related to work factors.The impacts of stress on the respondents show that impact on physiological health is the most as compared to others followed by impact on maintaining the house. As for coping styles it can be seen that the respondents only sometimes takes care of their personal needs but always try to have good relationship with their family members.