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An exploratory study of romantically involved young adults on love attitude; parent and peer attachment; conflict resolution; social influence and college learning
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-07) Dutt, Aditi; Singh, Ritu
Humans are social being who are driven by their need to belong in society. Young adulthood is a stressful yet another important stage of life offering different life-changing experiences. It opens the door for different goals, responsibilities, priorities, role and competence that helps young adults in developing attachment behaviour for example, in terms of how much emotional support is requested and from whom the support is sought. Parent and peer relationship are the most important, influential, and supreme relationships in an individual's life but when transition from school to college takes place the breaking away process from the primary attachment bonds occur at a slower pace before young adults can develop new relationship with others. Therefore, young adults tend to seek emotional security from the opposite sex by entering into romantic relationship, in order to fill the void of parental warmth. Therefore, it is fair to say that younger individuals experience a need to be attached to their counterparts through the bond of love. Love is a feeling of strong emotional attachment and attraction. It covers a wide range of positive and strong emotional and mental state, from the most sublime virtue or good habits, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. Thus comparative study was undertaken to assess the love attitude of romantically involved young adults; parent and peer attachment; conflict resolution; social influence and college learning. The study was carried out in - G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar and P.A.U., Ludhiana. Snow-ball sampling technique was used by the researcher to identify the prospective respondents (400) under two populations i.e 200 romantically involved young adults from G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar and 200 romantically involved young adults from P.A.U., Ludhiana.To assess the assumed objectives following tools were used, Love attitude Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986), Behavior System Questionnaire (Furman, Simon, Shaffer,& Bouchey, 2002), Romantic Partner Conflict Resolution Scale (Zacchilli, Hendrick, & Hendric, 2009), and The College Learning Effectiveness Inventory (Newton, Kim, Wilcox, & Beemer, 2008) and Social Influence on Romantic Relationship Scale (Ganth, 2013). Tools were distributed and explained to individual respondents and were requested for an honest, unbiased and true response with the assurance of confidentiality. On comparing the data for romantically involved young adults of G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar and P.A.U., Ludhiana, it was evident that romantically involved young adults of P.A.U., Ludhiana were having significantly higher Ludus (game-playing) love style whereas; Eros love style were significantly higher in romantically involved young adults of G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar. Furthermore, on assessing parent and peer attachment of romantically involved young adults it was found that there was no significant difference in parent and peer attachment of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, and PAU, Ludhiana. At the same time, it was also evident that there was no significant difference in areas of conflict and conflict resolution strategy of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar and PAU, Ludhiana. Interestingly it was observed that there was no significant difference in social influence on romantically involved young adults of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar and PAU, Ludhiana. On the contrary, it was evident that the respondent’s age and duration of their romantic relationship made significant contribution in various domains of college learning.
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A comparative study of martial quality, parent adolescent relationship and psychological health among living apart together couple and proximal couple families of distt. U.S. Nagar Uttarakhand
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-07) Johari, Shikha; Singh, Ritu
Relationships in which intimate partners do not share a household (living apart together) are gradually becoming more noticeable in the modern sphere. Living apart together couples (LATC) is a newly arrived family form and these couples are not registered in official census statistics. In the modern day world, the female counterparts are getting monetary freedom, independence and egalitarianism; which in turn have both positive and negative influence on marital adjustment. The parent-child relationship is one of the most important, influential, and supreme relationships in an individual's life. Any changes in family equilibrium and relationships results in change in responsibilities, rules, and boundaries, as well as the degree of power, authority and control exerted by parents. The comparative study was undertaken to assess the marital quality, parent-adolescent relationship and psychological health of members in living apart together couple families and proximal couple families. The study was carried out in Distt. Udham Singh Nagar of Uttarakhand. Snowball sampling technique was used to identified the prospective families (150) under two populations i.e 75 living apart together couple families and 75 proximal couple families. Total sample comprised of 450 respondents (150 husbands and wives from living apart together couple families, 150 husbands and wives from proximal couple families and 150 adolescents). To assess the assumed objectives following tools were used, Seven Dimensions of Exceptional Relationships (Szekely, 1980), Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976), Romantic Partner Conflict Scale (Zacchilli, 2009), Trust in Close Relationships Scale (Rempel, 1985), Parent -Child Relationship Scale (Rao, 1989) and Anxiety, depression and Stress Scale (Bhatnagar, 1971). Tools were distributed and explained to individual members and were requested for honest, unbaised and true response with assurance of confidentiality. During the follow up non-participatory observations were recorded and registered to cross verify data collected through survey method. On comparing the data for exceptional marital relationship of couples in living apart together couple and proximal couple families, it was evident that couples from living apart together couple families were significantly higher on three dimensions of exceptional relationship which is commitment, passion and team work in comparison to couples in proximal couple families. Furthermore, on assessing dyadic adjustment, couples from living apart together couple families were seen to be significantly more affectionate towards their partner. At the same time couples from living apart together couple families practiced separations, whereas couples from proximal couple families practiced avoidance as a strategy for conflict resolution. Interestingly it was observed that couples from living apart together couple and proximal couple families showed no significant difference in trust. On assessing parent-child relationship, it was apparent that parents from living apart together couple families practiced significantly more symbolic reward, object reward and were more loving. On the contrary, parents from proximal couple families followed more symbolic punishment and were more demanding. Simultaneously it was found that couples from living apart together couple families were significantly more anxious and stressed. However, it turned out that adolescents from living apart together couple families and proximal couple families showed no difference in anxiety, depression and stress.
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Comparative analysis of quality of education, caregiving and development among preschoolers under private and public schools of selected blocks of distt. U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-09) Nautiyal, Himani; Singh, Ritu
The earliest years of a child’s life are critical. These years determine child’s survival and thriving in life, and lay the foundations for her/ his learning and holistic development. Concept of Early Years Education (EYE) refers to a philosophy of providing opportunities and experiences to preschoolers in order to promote their holistic development, as well as arranging and providing services and support systems to communities and families to meet the needs of their young children. In India two types of preschool structures vis. private preschools and public preschools. This study was undertaken with a view to assess the differences existing across private and public preschools in terms of infrastructure and curriculum, child caregiver interaction and age specific development. The study was carried out purposively in two blocks of Distt. Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand namely- Rudrapur and Gadarpur. Firstly, a list of private peschools under the block Rudrapur and Gadarpur was procured by the researcher online. The researcher also used snowball sampling method to locate some of the private preschools which were not available online. In selection of public preschools the researcher procured the list from District Programme Office of the District Udham Singh Nagar. 10 private and 18 public preschools served as the sample for the current study. In which 31 caregivers and 351 preschoolers were from private preschools whereas, 27 caregivers and 291 preschoolers were from public preschools. Mixed methods involving non-participatory observations and survey method was used for data collection. To assess the assumed objectives following tools were used: Early Childhood Education Quality Assessment Scale (CECED, 2011), Child Caregiver Interaction Scale (Carl, 2010) and Ages and Stages Questionnaire (Squires and Bricker, 2009). Non participatory observation method was used to assess infrastructure and curriculum differences existing across private and public preschools using Early Childhood Education Quality Assessment Scale and the same method i.e. non participatory observation was used to assess hild Caregiver Interaction across private and public preschools using Child Caregiver Interaction Scale. To assess age specific developmental differences existing among preschoolers enrolled in private and public preschools the researcher distributed Ages and Stages Questionnaire to the parents of the preschoolers. On comparing the data for infrastructure and curriculum private preschools were significantly higher than public preschools on dimensions of- physical settings, meal time, learning and play aids, classroom management and organisation, personal care, hygiene and habit formation, language and reasoning experiences, fine and gross motor activities, social development, child care worker’s disposition. Furthermore on assessing caregiving across private and preschools it was found that private preschool caregivers were significantly high on all the three domain of the scale which were:- emotional, cognitive/physical and social. On assessing the age specific developmental differences among preschoolers across private and public preschools it was found that private preschoolers were significantly higher than public preschoolers in communication, problem solving and personal social domains. Whereas, public preschoolers were higher than private peschoolers in two domains which were: - fine and gross motor domain. Similar results were found between boys and girls of private and public preschools.
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Influence of home and school settings on moral judgment of pre-adolescent children: a study in Uttarakhand
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-07) Mehra, Manisha; Ahuja, Abha
With the advancement of technology, communication, and modernization, the individuals today have become more subjective about their ideas of how they define an act as moral or immoral. The present generation views morality as subjective perception of an individual rather than it being objective. This makes their perspective more challenging when seen along with the societal standards of just or unjust. The basic virtues that strengthen the relationships such as trust, integrity, love, and brotherhood are fading away with time. Pre adolescent children have the ability to differentiate between moral obligations, social norms, and personal moral choices and children at this age can take more circumstances, alternatives and possibilities into account when thinking about the ramifications of their behavior. One reason for deterioration of morality is that many children lack the self-discipline to resist their temptations, and their raging hormones overpower their ethics. The present research study was carried out exclusively in two districts of Uttarakhand viz., Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital. Keeping in mind the stated objectives, a total sample of 200 pre-adolescent children was taken as respondents for the present study. Self structured socio-demographic and socio-economic profile Questionnaire was used to collect basic background information about the respondents under study. Home Environment Questionnaire (Self structured) and School Environment Questionnaire (Self structured) were used to study home and school environment settings of the respondents. Moral Judgment Scale (Sinha and Verma, 1992) was used to study moral judgment of pre-adolescent children. The home environment setting of pre-adolescent children of government schools were found to be significantly lower than the home environment setting of pre-adolescent children of private schools in ambience domain. The school environment setting of pre-adolescent children of private schools was found to be significantly higher than the school environment setting of pre-adolescent children of government schools in discipline domain. Significant correlation was found between moral judgment of pre-adolescents and their home environment setting. No significant correlation was found between moral judgment of pre-adolescent children and their school environment setting. Home environment setting (independent variable) explains about 16 % of the variation in moral judgment (dependent variable) of pre-adolescent children.
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Group performance of women SHGS under KVKs in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-07) Divya; Ahuja, Abha
The empowerment of women is one of the vital issues in the progression and improvement of countries in the entire world. Women empowerment is a progression in which women confront the presented norms and culture to encourage their well being efficiently. A self-help group is a village based financial intermediary comprising of 10-20 local women. SHGs work on the principal of thrift, credit and self help i.e. thrift means quality of using money and resources carefully, credit being the grant and loans from banks and using these resources to achieve things and help themselves. The present study was conducted in Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand to explore the group activities among women members, to study the extent of participation of women in group activities of rural SHGs attached with KVKs and to identify problems associated with participation of women in group activities. The villages covered for survey were Audhli, Khairana, Dogda, Lamjala, Talla Gethia and Krishnapur. A sample size of 160 respondents i.e. 80 each from both the districts was selected for present study. Interview technique was used for collecting the data. The study comprises of descriptive and exploratory research design. The extent of participation of women SHG was found to be highest in official work followed by finance/accounts or credit purpose. The group activities in which the women were involved was classified under economic empowerment, socio-cultural empowerment and political empowerment. The study revealed that women reported problems in joining self-help groups in terms of information support, technical support, marketing of products made by them and financial support. Its Implications in terms of assets & capacity building of SHGs in the Country.
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Effect of modernization on the personal values of adolescents
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2018-06) Pavithra, N.; Ahuja, Abha
Values are ideas about desirable states of affairs shared by members of a group or culture. They guide our behavior, acts and right path of self-realization and selfdevelopment. As the values gone through an evolution over a period, they play a crucial role in determining human behavior and social relationships as well as maintaining and regulating social structure and interactions. Personal values evolve from circumstances with the external world and can change over time as result of modernization. Due to modern technology, modernization creates the change in traditions and values. Majority of behavioral scientists have come to recognize that modernization is essentially a process of value change. The adolescent age groups are the susceptible group to acquire the changes rapidly when compared to the other age groups. The present study has been carried out in two different Universities namely TNAU and GBPUA&T. Total sample for the study consisted of 240 adolescents in the age range of 18 to 20 Years belonging to TNAU and GBPUA&T. The samples collected from two colleges of TNAU and two colleges of GBPUA&T. The sample was evenly distributed over to sex’s i.e. 60 boys and 60 girls from each University. The self-structured background information questionnaire was used to collect the basic information; Personal value questionnaire (Sherry and Verma, 2010) was used to assess the personal values and Comprehensive Modernization Inventory (Ahluwalia and Kalia, 2010) was used to assess the modernization of the adolescents. The boys from TNAU were found significantly low in religious value, Social value, economic value and hedonistic value when compared to the girls. The correlation between the Modernization inventory and Personal value questionnaire gives the effect of modernization on the personal values of adolescents. At the same time, the regression analysis showed level of effect. However, on contrary, the girls were found significantly low in health value and medium in all the different aspects of personal values when compared to the girls of GBPUA&T. The boys of GBPUA&T found giving more respect to the status of women when compared to the boys of TNAU. similarly, there is a significant difference in the dimensions of politics, the status of women and marriage were found in the main comparison of girls of both the university. On overall comparison the TNAU adolescents where found better in education, parent-child relationship, politics, and marriage. Whereas, the GBPUA&T adolescents were found very good in religion, parent-child relationship and education.
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Effect of occupational stress on family relationship among police personnel of rural and urban areas of Uttarakhand
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2015-06) Pooja Rani; Ahuja, Abha
Occupations are a part of everyday life and may even form a part of a person's existence. Occupational stresses have become predominant feature of modern life and it is common to each and every organization. The police organization is no exception to this rather policing is widely recognized as more stressful than any other occupation the nature of work, irregular duty hours and many more factors, which can trigger stress in police personnel. Stress may affect the personnel and professional life of police personnel. Therefore it was felt to study the occupational stress and its relationship with family. The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of occupational stress on police personnel family relation including marital satisfaction and family environment. The study was conducted in the state of Uttarakhand and two districts were selected for this purpose Udham Singh Nagar for urban sector and Pithoragarh for rural sector. From these districts two block were selected, Rudrapur from Udham Singh Nagar and Pithoragarh from Pithoragarh district. Total 140 Police personnel (70 from Rudrapur & 70 from Pithoragarh) were interviewed for this study. Independent variable selected for the study were age, family type, family size, year of job experience and no. of transfer, whereas dependent variable were occupational stress, family environment and marital satisfaction. The data were collected using structured questionnaire for background information, family environment and marital satisfaction and occupational stress index (OSS) by A.K. Srivastav & A.P. Singh (1984). The data obtained was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t- test, and Chi-square test. The present study revealed that male police personnel had significantly high occupational stress than female police personnel and rural male police personnel had significantly high positive family environment than rural female police personnel whereas urban police personnel had no significant differences in family environment across their gender. Another observation was that male and female police personnel had no significant difference in marital satisfaction. As per the percentage basis, rural sector police personnel had moderate occupational stress, high family environment and high marital satisfaction than urban sector police personnel. Findings also revealed that family environment was not dependent on occupational stress whereas marital satisfaction was depended on occupational stress. The study showed that the police personnel from rural sector were having better family relationship than urban sector police personnel.
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A comparative study of educational aspirations & achievement motivation of visually impaired & sighted adolescents enrolled under inclusive & exclusive education
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2015-08) Joshi, Neha; Singh, Ritu
An individual receives impressions of the world through his sense organs. Senses are said to be the gateway to knowledge. More impressions reach the brain through the sense of sight than through all other senses combined. It has been thus, said that “eyes are the windows of the soul”. Thus, lack of sight makes the individual blind and aloof from the physical world. The present study was undertaken to assess the difference, if any, exists in the levels of educational aspirations and achievement motivation of visually impaired and sighted enrolled under inclusive and exclusive education in Uttarakhand. It has been realized that, there is a need to identify whether educational aspirations and motivation in inclusive and exclusive settings of visually impaired adolescent and sighted adolescent does make any differences. The sample for the present study comprised of four groups viz. a) visually impaired adolescents from exclusive educational settings b) visually impaired adolescents from inclusive educational settings c) Sighted adolescents from inclusive educational settings d) Sighted adolescents from exclusive educational settings .50 respondents were randomly selected under each group of sample from the identified locale so as to make a total sample of 200 respondents for the study. Educational aspiration and achievement motivation of the population under study was assessed by employing two tools viz. Level of Educational Aspiration Test (LEAT) developed by Dr. Yashmin Ghani Khan.(1999) and Achievement Motivation Scale (n-Ach) developed by Prof. Pratibha Deo and Dr. Asha Mohan(1985). The present study revealed that Education aspiration was found to be significantly higher in visually impaired adolescents of exclusive education as compared to visually impaired adolescents of inclusive education in all the domains of educational aspiration except reality of aspired goals. In sighted adolescents education aspiration was found to be significantly higher in inclusive education in family support and pupil’s view domain. However for the pupil’s effort and reality of aspired goals domains in sighted adolescents from exclusive education were found to be higher. Achievement motivation was found to be significantly higher in visually impaired adolescents of exclusive education as compared to visually impaired adolescents of inclusive education Socio –demographic and socioeconomic variables also influenced the levels of educational aspiration and achievement motivation. Significant difference was observed in terms of level of educational aspiration across gender in inclusive education of visually impaired adolescents and sighted adolescents of exclusive education, across birth order in inclusive and exclusive education of sighted adolescents, across number of siblings in inclusive and exclusive educational settings of visually impaired adolescents, across visual impairment in exclusive education, across visual impairment onset in inclusive education, across father’s and mother’s education in inclusive and exclusive education of visually impaired adolescents and sighted adolescents. No Significant difference was observed across family income and parent’s occupation. Significant difference was observed in terms of level of achievement motivation of visually impaired adolescents from inclusive education across number of siblings . Across father’s and mother’s education in inclusive and exclusive education of visually impaired adolescents and sighted adolescents, across father’s occupation of visually impaired adolescents under inclusive education, across family income visually impaired adolescents from exclusive education significant difference were found and no significant differences was observed in other variables under level of achievement motivation.
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Management of family support structures through SHGS: A feasibility study in Uttarakhand
(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-06) Garwal, Sony; Ahuja, Abha

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