Influence of Parenting Styles on Mental Health of Adolescents

Positive mental health is a key factor in maintaining good health status. A good mental health is very essential for a person to deal with daily stresses of his/her life, and it is also an important component of total health. Present study makes an attempt to study the influence of parenting styles on mental health of adolescents studying in and around Mysore city.  A sample of 200  subjects whose age ranged between 10 to 14 years were considered as early adolescents and 200 subjects whose age ranged between 15 to 19 years were considered as late adolescents in the present study. Thus a total sample of 400 subjects (200 boys and 200 girls) from in and around Mysore city were randomly selected as the participants of the study. They were provided with Parental authority questionnaire (PAQ; Buri, 1991) to measure perceived parenting styles and GHQ-28 (Goldberg, 1978) to measure mental health of the participants. The data was subjected to Two-way ANOVA. Results revealed that, Parenting styles did not have significant influence over mental health of the adolescents in somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression and total scores. Late adolescent’s expressed more somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression than early adolescents. In general, this study showed that the developmental stages had considerable effect on the general health of both early and late adolescents

Hierarchy, kinship and social interaction among Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata)

The study reports the relationship between hierarchy, genetic relatedness and social interaction in captive Japanese macaques. Grooming and proximity were found to be positively related to both dominance rank and degrees of relatedness. Ranks also positively correlated with threats while no relationship was observed between genetic relationships and agonistic interactions. The removal of α-male tightened the male hierarchy while the female hierarchy became relatively loose. Affiliative behaviour became more correlated with ranks than degrees of genetic relatedness. In the absence of α-male, the next dominant male avoided involvement in either agonistic or afliliative interactions with reintroduced animals and group females

Determinants and effects of mobile phone addiction and phubbing: a study in 17 countries

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Measurement invariance of the phubbing scale across 20 countries

Mobile phone addiction is a robust phenomenon observed throughout the world. The social aspect of mobile phone use is crucial; therefore, phubbing is a part of the mobile phone addiction phenomenon. Phubbing is defined as ignoring an interlocutor by glancing at one's mobile phone during a face-to-face conversation. The main aim of this study was to investigate how the Phubbing Scale (containing 10 items) might vary across countries, and between genders. Data were collected in 20 countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Croatia, Ecuador, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Ukraine and USA. The mean age across the sample (N = 7696, 65.8% women, 34.2% men) was 25.32 years (SD = 9.50). The cross-cultural invariance of the scale was investigated using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (MGCFA) as well as the invariance analyses. Additionally, data from each country were assessed individually via confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs). We obtained two factors, based on only eight of the items: (a) communication disturbances and (b) phone obsession. The 8 items Phubbing Scale

Effect of internet addiction on subjective well-being among adolescents

The present study aims to find out the effect of internet addiction on subjective wellbeing of adolescents studying in and around Mysuru city. A total of 720 adolescents were included in the present study, having equal number of male and female students studying in 10, 11 and 12th standards. They were administered Internet addiction scale (Young, 1998) and satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al, 1995). Two-way ANOVA was employed to find out the effect of internet addiction on subjectivewellbeing, including select demographic variables-school type, area and gender. Results revealed that Internet addiction did not have significant influence over the subjective wellbeing scores. Adolescents studying in government schools had highest subjective wellbeing scores and adolescents studying in unaided schools had least wellbeing scores. Adolescents from rural area had higher subjective wellbeing scores compared to adolescents from urban area. Gender did not have significant influence over subjective wellbeing of the adolescent

Does Shyness Affect Reaction Time?

This study attempts to answer the question 'does shyness really affects reaction time?' In the present study, Crozier's (1995) shyness scale was employed to measure the level of shyness. Reaction times both for sound and light in simple and discrimination conditions were measured through digital reaction time apparatus. A total of 358 (266 boys and 92 girls) college students served as subjects for the present study. Results revealed that shyness was not related to reaction times both for sound and light in simple and discrimination conditions indicating that shyness is independent of reaction time and it does not affect reaction time of the individuals

Shyness / Social Phobia: INFLUENCE ON SELF-CONCEPT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. SUGGESTED REMEDIAL MEASURES

This study reports the influence of shyness on self-concept and academic achievement in high school children. In the present study Crozier's (1995) shyness scale, Singh's (1986) self-concept scale and academic achievement of the students were employed to find out the influence of shyness. 240 high school students served as subjects. Results revealed that as the shyness level increased self-concept of the students decreased linearly. Shyness is found to affect academic achievement negatively and significantly. Also, remedial measures for shyness/social phobia and further management have been discussed. Key Words: Shyness, Social Phobia, Self concept, Academic Scores & High school students

Relationship of Self-Esteem with Shyness,Personality and Academic Achivement in High-School Students

This study reports relationship of self-esteem on variables of shyness,personally and academic achievements in high school students.In the present study ,Coopersmith's Self Esteem Inventory ,Crozier's Shyness Scale ,Eysenck's Personally Inventory (EPI) and academic achievement scores were employed to find out the influence of self-esteem on the above-mentioned variables.Two hundred and twenty high school students served as subjects

Instagram addiction among students pursuing paramedical and non-professional students: A comparative study

This study attempted to compare the extent of Instagram addiction among students pursuing paramedical and non-professional courses. The sample consisted of 257students (110 students from speech and hearing and 147 students from non-professional courses) comprising of 115 male and 142 female students. The students completed Test for Instagram addiction (TIA) developed by D'Souza, Samyukta and Bivera (2018) in one session. Test for Instagram addiction measured addiction in 6 factors-Lack of control, Disengagement, Escapism, Health and interpersonal troubles, Excessive use and Obsession. Chi-square tests were applied to find out the association between levels of Instagram addiction and student groups, gender, domicile and stay. Results revealed that on the whole, 4.7% of them were definitely addicts, 26.1% of them were prone for addiction, 39.3% of them were average users, 28.0% of them used on a low and remaining 1.9% of them had no/minimal addiction towards Instagram. Students pursuing non-professional courses were found to be more addicted to Instagram than students pursuing paramedical courses. Male students had higher proneness and addiction to Instagram than female students. Students hailing from rural and urban areas had higher proneness and addiction to Instagram compared to students hailing from semi-urban areas

Study on the relationship with shyness and academic stress among engineering students

The present study evaluates the relationship between the shyness and academic stress among engineering students studying in Mysuru city. Academic stress inventory (Lin & Chen, 2009) and Shyness Assessment Test (SAT) (D'Souza, 2006) were administered to a sample of 150engineering students. Academic stress of the students was measured in 7 domains and shyness in 3 domains. Data were subjected to product moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression to find out the relationship between stress and shyness as well as to find out the domains of shyness which predict stress. Results revealed that all the domains of shyness are significantly and positively correlated with domains of stress. Further, stepwise multiple regression revealed that out of 3 domains of shyness, cognitive/affective and physiological domains were the major predictors of stress. Strategies for decreasing the extent of stress and shyness among engineering students have been delineated