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Papers by Seena Mathai
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
Parents and siblings play a major role in influencing the self-esteem of an individual. The paren... more Parents and siblings play a major role in influencing the self-esteem of an individual. The parents’ relationship with the child, their responses to the child’s academic performance which includes motivation as well as encouragement plays a huge role in building up a positive self-esteem which further helps them to develop a better personality; better career along with that self-esteem also helps one to solve their problems in life. In this research, data from 112 participants were collected through an online survey focusing on the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem across a specific age range. Parenting styles were assessed using 20 question model(What questions, while self-esteem was evaluated using Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Through this research the effect of native place on one’s self esteem was determined along with the effect of other factors such as relationship with siblings, academic performance on self-esteem was analysed
Researchers World : Journal of Arts & Science and Commerce(RWJASC), Apr 30, 2018
Parents are very much worried when their child's academic performance declines. Early identificat... more Parents are very much worried when their child's academic performance declines. Early identification, remedial training and positive support from family are very important for the child to perform well. Present study focused on parental stress of mothers of children diagnosed with Learning disabilities. Participants include 224 mothers, in which 112 are mothers of children with learning disabilities and 112 are mothers of typically developing children. Instruments used for the study are socio demographic data and parental stress scale. Result of the t-test reveals that there is significant difference in the stress experienced by mothers of children with learning disabilities when compared with typically developing children. Result implies there is a high need of extending the evaluation and intervention to parents by providing services like counselling, social support group so that they can realize they are not alone and gain new knowledge to enchance coping startegies.
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
This study intends to find out if humour as coping and flow could significantly be different amo... more This study intends to find out if humour as coping and flow could significantly be different among athletes and non-athletes, and if the above mentioned variables show any kind of relationship with subjective happiness. A sample of 62 athletes and 75 non-athletes aged between 16 and 22 were selected for the study. Inventories were used to collect the data. It includes The Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) by Lyubomirsky (1999) , The Coping Humour Scale(CHS) developed by .A Martin (1983) and Flow State Scale by Jackson (1995). Demographic information including their age, gender, education level, and sporting involvement was also collected. The obtained results showed that Flow and humour are significantly higher for athletes than non-athletes. Flow and humour is also found to have a significant positive correlation with subjective happiness. Males are found to experience greater subjective happiness than females and they use more humour as coping. National level players experience m...
Towards Excellence
It aims to develop a scale to measure psychological wellbeing. Ryff’s theory of wellbeing is take... more It aims to develop a scale to measure psychological wellbeing. Ryff’s theory of wellbeing is taken as the primary reference for the item writing and underline the theoretical framework. Data were collected randomly from 420 emerging adults from Ernakulam district, Kerala. Through item analysis, 14 items were extracted from 50 draft items. Exploratory factor analysis is used to find out the dimensions. Extraction Method was Principal Component Analysis and Rotation Method was Promax with Kaiser Normalization. Four dimensions were find out. First three dimensions contain 4 items each and last dimension contain 2 items. Psychometric properties were found to be satisfactory. Cronbach alpha was find out as measure of internal consistency. Cronbach alpha of the total test was 0.7, and each dimension has above 0.5. And split half reliability and concurrent validity with Ryff’s original scale of psychological wellbeing was find out, both are satisfactory.
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
An average adolescent in Kerala is expected to concentrate on his or her academics. All other asp... more An average adolescent in Kerala is expected to concentrate on his or her academics. All other aspects like spiritual, psychological and social development are given scant attention. As the young person completes education, world demands competencies that are not taught in schools and the critical time of acquisition of these core competencies are long past. Interpersonal Solidarity is one among them. The present study intends to examine the relationship between Interpersonal Solidarity, student engagement and wellbeing among adolescents. A sample of 120 college students between the age 18 to 23 was selected from in and around Ernakulam District. Student Engagement Inventory by Christenson et al. (2006), Interpersonal Solidarity Scale by Wheeless (1978) and Scale for Psychological Wellbeing by Ryff (1995) were chosen to collect the quantitative data. The results indicate that Cognitive Engagement is found to have a significant relationship with solidarity and wellbeing, Inter-persona...
Disasters like flood can result in creating phobia, depression, anxiety etc. in victims, the psyc... more Disasters like flood can result in creating phobia, depression, anxiety etc. in victims, the psychological distress may also affect their optimism, stress tolerance, resilience etc. and thereby their overall psychological wellbeing. Optimism enables an individual to set goals, make commitments, tolerate with adversity and pain and recover from trauma and stress (Schneider &Leitenberg, 1989).Stress tolerance refers to a person's ability to withstand stress without becoming seriously impaired (Carson, Butcher &Mineka, 1996). Objectives of the study: to find out whether there is any difference among flood victims on the basis of age on optimism and stress tolerance, whether there is any gender difference on optimism and stress tolerance among three groups (primary, secondary and both) of flood victims, whether there is any difference between the three groups of victims on optimism and stress tolerance, and also to explore the relationship between optimism and stress tolerance among...
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2015
Athletes are forced to cope with the stresses that arise from competing head-on with others in ac... more Athletes are forced to cope with the stresses that arise from competing head-on with others in activities that are important to the athletes and to others, such as parents, coaches, and peers. Some athletes learn to cope successfully with these stresses, and for them sports are enjoyable and challenging. Others who are unable to cope find sport participation to be a stressful and threatening experience. Coping is defined as an individual’s cognitive, emotional, and action tendency efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands. (Crocker, Kowalski & Graham, 1998; Lazarus, 1999). According to Lazarus & Folkman (1984) “coping” should be viewed as a process which is dynamic, depending upon the individual’s evaluation of a given situation. But inappropriate and unproductive coping styles have been found to have a variety of harmful outcome, such as adjustment difficulties and health problems on the athlete (Nicolotti, Elsheikh and Whiteson, 2003).
IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267), 2016
Emotions which are considered as a basic factor of all relationships 1are very powerful and to a ... more Emotions which are considered as a basic factor of all relationships 1are very powerful and to a very great extent they control our behaviour, thoughts and all other aspects of life. The behaviour and thought processes are directly influenced by the past experiences and early developmental stages. Emotion is the feeling aspect of consciousness characterized by a physical aspect like physical arousal, behaviours that reveal emotion to the outside world, and an inner awareness of feelings. Healthy emotions motivate us and give us energy for appropriate action. Unhealthy emotions are either overly intense or suppressed. Smiston in 1974 defined “Emotional maturity is a process in which the personality is continuously striving for greater sense of emotional health, both intra-physically and intra-personally” (as cited in Singh & Bhargava, 1990). Kaplan and Baron describes a emotionally mature person as having the capacity to withstand delay in satisfaction of needs, ability...
The book, "Visual Imagery a Threshold to success" blends sports with Psychology. The bo... more The book, "Visual Imagery a Threshold to success" blends sports with Psychology. The book gives a bird’s eye view of the Psychology of Sports and reveals how to achieve peek performance through infinite power of the mind. The book, for interested practitioners, gives a detailed description of Visual Imagery, its functions, appropriate places where it can be used, the various factors influencing imagery and the neural basis of visualization. It tells the reader elaborately the precautions to be taken while giving imagery, the required preconditions, preparation of an imagery script with examples and the places where it can be practiced. The findings based on the study conducted by the author, its implications, suggestions for further research and future is also included. This humble, first attempt on the part of the author reveals the scope of the art of Imagery applied to any aspect of behaviour modification.Furthermore, if your sports performance or any other aspect of li...
Asia Pacific Business Review, 2010
Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. Extensive s... more Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. Extensive social scientific research into human reactions to threats provides some insights into the psychological strategies humans are likely to adopt in the face of the threat of climate changes. This essay explains the different factors which contribute to better adaptation to climate changes. The degree to which societies are vulnerable to climate change depends on the extent to which parts of the population are dependent on natural resources and ecosystem services; the extent to which the resources and services they rely on are sensitive to climate change, and their capacity to adapt to changes in these resources and services. Instead of implementing some techniques or tools very selectively, an integrated approach incorporating social, psychological, physical, physiological, and technological elements in the environment need to be undertaken effectively to moderate potential damages, to take...
International Journal of Indian Psychology
All human beings experience a transitional stage from puberty to adulthood that involves physical... more All human beings experience a transitional stage from puberty to adulthood that involves physical, psychological and cognitive changes (Berk,2013). Thus adolescents have to cope with several stressful life changing situations which can disrupt their psychological well-being. This study intends to find out if resilience and spirituality could be correlates of psychological well-being of a sample of 64 adolescents. The tools used included Brief Resilience Scale by B.W Smith et al. (2008), Scales of Psychological Well-being by C.D Ryff et al. (1999) and Spiritual Health Inventory by Beach & Chappel (1992). The obtained results show that, there is a significant positive relationship between resilience and spirituality, and resilience and psychological well-being. It also shows the significance of gender difference in resilience. Thus, the results imply that an effort should be made at a very young age to enhance resilience, so that people will experience a better psychological well-be...
Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
Parents and siblings play a major role in influencing the self-esteem of an individual. The paren... more Parents and siblings play a major role in influencing the self-esteem of an individual. The parents’ relationship with the child, their responses to the child’s academic performance which includes motivation as well as encouragement plays a huge role in building up a positive self-esteem which further helps them to develop a better personality; better career along with that self-esteem also helps one to solve their problems in life. In this research, data from 112 participants were collected through an online survey focusing on the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem across a specific age range. Parenting styles were assessed using 20 question model(What questions, while self-esteem was evaluated using Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Through this research the effect of native place on one’s self esteem was determined along with the effect of other factors such as relationship with siblings, academic performance on self-esteem was analysed
Researchers World : Journal of Arts & Science and Commerce(RWJASC), Apr 30, 2018
Parents are very much worried when their child's academic performance declines. Early identificat... more Parents are very much worried when their child's academic performance declines. Early identification, remedial training and positive support from family are very important for the child to perform well. Present study focused on parental stress of mothers of children diagnosed with Learning disabilities. Participants include 224 mothers, in which 112 are mothers of children with learning disabilities and 112 are mothers of typically developing children. Instruments used for the study are socio demographic data and parental stress scale. Result of the t-test reveals that there is significant difference in the stress experienced by mothers of children with learning disabilities when compared with typically developing children. Result implies there is a high need of extending the evaluation and intervention to parents by providing services like counselling, social support group so that they can realize they are not alone and gain new knowledge to enchance coping startegies.
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
This study intends to find out if humour as coping and flow could significantly be different amo... more This study intends to find out if humour as coping and flow could significantly be different among athletes and non-athletes, and if the above mentioned variables show any kind of relationship with subjective happiness. A sample of 62 athletes and 75 non-athletes aged between 16 and 22 were selected for the study. Inventories were used to collect the data. It includes The Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) by Lyubomirsky (1999) , The Coping Humour Scale(CHS) developed by .A Martin (1983) and Flow State Scale by Jackson (1995). Demographic information including their age, gender, education level, and sporting involvement was also collected. The obtained results showed that Flow and humour are significantly higher for athletes than non-athletes. Flow and humour is also found to have a significant positive correlation with subjective happiness. Males are found to experience greater subjective happiness than females and they use more humour as coping. National level players experience m...
Towards Excellence
It aims to develop a scale to measure psychological wellbeing. Ryff’s theory of wellbeing is take... more It aims to develop a scale to measure psychological wellbeing. Ryff’s theory of wellbeing is taken as the primary reference for the item writing and underline the theoretical framework. Data were collected randomly from 420 emerging adults from Ernakulam district, Kerala. Through item analysis, 14 items were extracted from 50 draft items. Exploratory factor analysis is used to find out the dimensions. Extraction Method was Principal Component Analysis and Rotation Method was Promax with Kaiser Normalization. Four dimensions were find out. First three dimensions contain 4 items each and last dimension contain 2 items. Psychometric properties were found to be satisfactory. Cronbach alpha was find out as measure of internal consistency. Cronbach alpha of the total test was 0.7, and each dimension has above 0.5. And split half reliability and concurrent validity with Ryff’s original scale of psychological wellbeing was find out, both are satisfactory.
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
An average adolescent in Kerala is expected to concentrate on his or her academics. All other asp... more An average adolescent in Kerala is expected to concentrate on his or her academics. All other aspects like spiritual, psychological and social development are given scant attention. As the young person completes education, world demands competencies that are not taught in schools and the critical time of acquisition of these core competencies are long past. Interpersonal Solidarity is one among them. The present study intends to examine the relationship between Interpersonal Solidarity, student engagement and wellbeing among adolescents. A sample of 120 college students between the age 18 to 23 was selected from in and around Ernakulam District. Student Engagement Inventory by Christenson et al. (2006), Interpersonal Solidarity Scale by Wheeless (1978) and Scale for Psychological Wellbeing by Ryff (1995) were chosen to collect the quantitative data. The results indicate that Cognitive Engagement is found to have a significant relationship with solidarity and wellbeing, Inter-persona...
Disasters like flood can result in creating phobia, depression, anxiety etc. in victims, the psyc... more Disasters like flood can result in creating phobia, depression, anxiety etc. in victims, the psychological distress may also affect their optimism, stress tolerance, resilience etc. and thereby their overall psychological wellbeing. Optimism enables an individual to set goals, make commitments, tolerate with adversity and pain and recover from trauma and stress (Schneider &Leitenberg, 1989).Stress tolerance refers to a person's ability to withstand stress without becoming seriously impaired (Carson, Butcher &Mineka, 1996). Objectives of the study: to find out whether there is any difference among flood victims on the basis of age on optimism and stress tolerance, whether there is any gender difference on optimism and stress tolerance among three groups (primary, secondary and both) of flood victims, whether there is any difference between the three groups of victims on optimism and stress tolerance, and also to explore the relationship between optimism and stress tolerance among...
International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2015
Athletes are forced to cope with the stresses that arise from competing head-on with others in ac... more Athletes are forced to cope with the stresses that arise from competing head-on with others in activities that are important to the athletes and to others, such as parents, coaches, and peers. Some athletes learn to cope successfully with these stresses, and for them sports are enjoyable and challenging. Others who are unable to cope find sport participation to be a stressful and threatening experience. Coping is defined as an individual’s cognitive, emotional, and action tendency efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands. (Crocker, Kowalski & Graham, 1998; Lazarus, 1999). According to Lazarus & Folkman (1984) “coping” should be viewed as a process which is dynamic, depending upon the individual’s evaluation of a given situation. But inappropriate and unproductive coping styles have been found to have a variety of harmful outcome, such as adjustment difficulties and health problems on the athlete (Nicolotti, Elsheikh and Whiteson, 2003).
IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267), 2016
Emotions which are considered as a basic factor of all relationships 1are very powerful and to a ... more Emotions which are considered as a basic factor of all relationships 1are very powerful and to a very great extent they control our behaviour, thoughts and all other aspects of life. The behaviour and thought processes are directly influenced by the past experiences and early developmental stages. Emotion is the feeling aspect of consciousness characterized by a physical aspect like physical arousal, behaviours that reveal emotion to the outside world, and an inner awareness of feelings. Healthy emotions motivate us and give us energy for appropriate action. Unhealthy emotions are either overly intense or suppressed. Smiston in 1974 defined “Emotional maturity is a process in which the personality is continuously striving for greater sense of emotional health, both intra-physically and intra-personally” (as cited in Singh & Bhargava, 1990). Kaplan and Baron describes a emotionally mature person as having the capacity to withstand delay in satisfaction of needs, ability...
The book, "Visual Imagery a Threshold to success" blends sports with Psychology. The bo... more The book, "Visual Imagery a Threshold to success" blends sports with Psychology. The book gives a bird’s eye view of the Psychology of Sports and reveals how to achieve peek performance through infinite power of the mind. The book, for interested practitioners, gives a detailed description of Visual Imagery, its functions, appropriate places where it can be used, the various factors influencing imagery and the neural basis of visualization. It tells the reader elaborately the precautions to be taken while giving imagery, the required preconditions, preparation of an imagery script with examples and the places where it can be practiced. The findings based on the study conducted by the author, its implications, suggestions for further research and future is also included. This humble, first attempt on the part of the author reveals the scope of the art of Imagery applied to any aspect of behaviour modification.Furthermore, if your sports performance or any other aspect of li...
Asia Pacific Business Review, 2010
Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. Extensive s... more Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. Extensive social scientific research into human reactions to threats provides some insights into the psychological strategies humans are likely to adopt in the face of the threat of climate changes. This essay explains the different factors which contribute to better adaptation to climate changes. The degree to which societies are vulnerable to climate change depends on the extent to which parts of the population are dependent on natural resources and ecosystem services; the extent to which the resources and services they rely on are sensitive to climate change, and their capacity to adapt to changes in these resources and services. Instead of implementing some techniques or tools very selectively, an integrated approach incorporating social, psychological, physical, physiological, and technological elements in the environment need to be undertaken effectively to moderate potential damages, to take...
International Journal of Indian Psychology
All human beings experience a transitional stage from puberty to adulthood that involves physical... more All human beings experience a transitional stage from puberty to adulthood that involves physical, psychological and cognitive changes (Berk,2013). Thus adolescents have to cope with several stressful life changing situations which can disrupt their psychological well-being. This study intends to find out if resilience and spirituality could be correlates of psychological well-being of a sample of 64 adolescents. The tools used included Brief Resilience Scale by B.W Smith et al. (2008), Scales of Psychological Well-being by C.D Ryff et al. (1999) and Spiritual Health Inventory by Beach & Chappel (1992). The obtained results show that, there is a significant positive relationship between resilience and spirituality, and resilience and psychological well-being. It also shows the significance of gender difference in resilience. Thus, the results imply that an effort should be made at a very young age to enhance resilience, so that people will experience a better psychological well-be...
Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)