Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents

The skewing sex ratio in India has become an issue of concern, as it will lead to serious demographic disparity and adverse social consequences. Although the overall sex ratio for the entire population in India has shown an improvement, the last two decades have shown a deterioration of the Child Sex Ratio. A great number of studies have been devoted to analyze such declining sex ratio. An attempt has been made to review studies which have focused on socioeconomic and other factors related to this complex phenomena and repercussions of imbalance sex ratio occurring in the country. This paper studies these aspects in three broad parts. The first part deals with the studies related to the estimation of missing women, the second part of the literature review showcases studies related to causes and determinants of declining sex ratio, and the third and last part deals with the studies on repercussions of Declining Sex Ratio.

Adolescence marks an important time in the process of human development, the passage between childhood and adulthood. Good health in adolescence is central to wellbeing and the bedrock for good health in later life. Young generation they have more sensitivity in their thinking, become attempting suicides. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the Adolescent Health Strategy which serves as a guiding document for planning, implementing and monitoring adolescent health initiatives in India. The paper is based on primary and secondary data with the objectives of to understand the dimensional aspects of health, to analyze the socio-demographic profile of the respondents, to examine the aspects of health dimensions among adolescence and to understand the necessity of professional social work interventions among the adolescence. The study covers 140 samples size includes both boys and girls by self structured interview scheduled in Ballari district, Karnataka. It covers the age group of 12-18years. It focuses on professional social work interventions among various dimensional aspects of health such as physical, social, emotional and spirituality among the adolescence in contemporary period. It implies the adverse effect pertaining to have a good health. The paper suggests the role of Government and Non Government Organizations and for effective implementation of the Health policies and services to the adolescence in India.

This study examined rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ (aged 13–19 years, N = 395) attitudes toward children’s self-determination and nurturance rights, and how these attitudes relate to various dimensions of socialization in their family and school environments, including perceptions of parental and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and family and school democratic climate. Relations between these variables and psychological well-being also were examined. Perceived parent and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and democratic climate differentially predicted attitudes toward each type of right and were positively correlated with adolescents’ psychological well-being. Our findings suggest that environments that are structured more democratically and that are responsive to children’s autonomy needs contribute to their psychological health and well-being in diverse cultural settings.

This study examined rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ (aged 13–19 years, N = 395) attitudes toward children’s self-determination and nurturance rights, and how these attitudes relate to various dimensions of socialization in their family and school environments, including perceptions of parental and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and family and school democratic climate. Relations between these variables and psychological well-being also were examined. Perceived parent and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and democratic climate differentially predicted attitudes toward each type of right and were positively correlated with adolescents’ psychological well-being. Our findings suggest that environments that are structured more democratically and that are responsive to children’s autonomy needs contribute to their psychological health and well-being in diverse cultural settings.

Employee Productivity which measures the output relative to the input per person with reference to a point of time is a major dynamic and vigorous concern of any organizations as it is engage in shaping the success of an organization. The organizations in Apparel Industry is highly employee oriented and their employees are the main driving force of the success where the employers pay their highest attention on maintaining job satisfaction on their valuable assets, employees. This study is an attempt to find out the impact of employee job satisfaction by different perspectives on employee productivity. Therefore apparent three perspectives has been chosen for the study at the assumption of other perspectives are been constant where if any. Employee relation which engrosses proper relationship between employer and employee is one of the perspectives emphasized as a sub division of job satisfaction. Organizational culture and Competitor organizations are the perspectives other than employee relations for employee job satisfaction. Organization culture and Competitor organizations refer to peers and subordinates relationships at the organization and attitudes towards competitor organizations or other similar organizations respectively. More specifically this study underscores which perspective has the highest impact on employee job satisfaction in varying employee productivity as a whole. The study was conducted in Colombo District. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study where primary data was collected through questionnaires from the sample of 200 employees selected by the stratified random sampling techniques and secondary data was used to gain information towards dependent variable, employee productivity which measured by the organization specifically. Further descriptive analysis and chi-square analysis were used to analysis of data with the tool of SPSS software. This study came out with the results that employee satisfaction towards employee relations has the highest impact on employee productivity other than the satisfaction towards organizational culture and competitor organizations. The least impact on employee productivity has given by competitor organizations. Therefore the management of the organizations included to Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka should be considered about maintaining healthy relationship between employer and employee as well as employee and employee in order to ensure employee job satisfaction which enhance employee productivity that resulting success of the organization

S Microfinance (MFIs) in Ghana may be considered a risky business. Threats emanate from an unstable macroeconomic environment, the state of security in the country, liquidity challenges, corruption and fraud, political and religious interference, and so on. However, there has been no attempt to systematically map the risks that the sector faces and understand the extent to which they pose a threat to a vibrant and healthy microfinance sector. This is a survey that seeks to assess the risks that are of concern in Ghana's microfinance sector as seen by practitioners in the face of the changing business and macroeconomic environment, as well as keeping in mind the new initiatives and developments in the micro finance sector. The study begins by examining the practitioners understanding of risks within micro finance sector in Ghana then continue to address the issues of the significant risks affecting the microfinance that are of concern to the microfinance sector for the next five ...

Given the growing awareness of the importance of disruptive innovation (DI) in both emerging and advanced economies, it becomes meaningful to examine under which circumstances disruptive innovation occurs and how to assess the essential characteristics and success factors for disruptive innovation through opportunity generation to provide a basis for guidance to practitioners. This paper focuses on assessment of disruptive innovation in the particular context of the Republic of China, one of the emerging markets for new management processes and practices. The previous has not been substantially addressed in the literature. Therefore, the intention in this paper is to contribute to bridge this gap through addressing how new innovation processes enable disruptive innovation drawing from Christensen's disruptive innovation and using an assessment framework proposed by Hang and Yu. To examine the above an inductive theory building methodology was carried out utilizing a multiple cas...

The advent of easily accessible technology has seen the decline in the circulation of physical paper-based newspapers. With the support of this research paper, the authors try to recognize the perception of brand of various financial newspapers. The study has been done by carrying out literature review, conducting short interviews and the survey through questionnaire. The primary data was collected in Western part of Ahmedabad city and the data has been analyzed using statistical tools like ranking method graphs and charts. The authors found that many readers of the financial dailies shown tremendous loyalty towards their preferred brand. We have tried to recommend the economic dailies on the various aspects to be considered for crafting the positive image in the minds of the consumers.

This study looks at organizational commitments and motivational strategies across Estate Surveying and Valuation Firms from the point of view of the young surveyors or employees, i.e. to say that principal consultants or partners/associates are not part of the respondents. The study identified some motivational strategies across firm and the perceptions of young surveyors to these strategies. The study concluded that most of these motivational strategies are not well taken into consideration by different firms judging from the respondents answers to questionnaire distributed, it however recommended that principal Consultants/Partners should as a matter of necessity try to make the recommendations and findings of this research part and parcel of the practice, when this is done young surveyors will attracted to professional practice.

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This study examined rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ (aged 13–19 years, N = 395) attitudes toward children’s self-determination and nurturance rights, and how these attitudes relate to various dimensions of socialization in their family and school environments, including perceptions of parental and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and family and school democratic climate. Relations between these variables and psychological well-being also were examined. Perceived parent and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and democratic climate differentially predicted attitudes toward each type of right and were positively correlated with adolescents’ psychological well-being. Our findings suggest that environments that are structured more democratically and that are responsive to children’s autonomy needs contribute to their psychological health and well-being in diverse cultural settings.

Human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen causing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), adjudged to be the most significant emerging infectious disease in the world, is causing health, social and developmental problems globally. This study was carried out on subjects recruited at random from various centers in Orashi geopolitical region of Rivers state, Nigeria. This study evaluated the incidence of HIV/AIDS and assessed the HIV/AIDS high risk group in Orashi region. Additionally, it attempted ascertaining the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on other sector of the economy as agriculture, households, labour, and their socio-cultural implications for the society. However, the study showed no significant difference in HIV infection among people of different age groups, with an overall HIV prevalence of 10.6%. The results also showed a negative attitude among the people of the area even when 94% respondents agreed to have heard of HIV/AIDS and 54.9% of respondents have not used a condom before while 56.7% agreed to have had their first sexual experience before age 15. However, the highest HIV prevalence was observed among ages 25-34 and 45-60, but statistical analysis using ANOVA shows no significant difference between age groups and prevalence of HIV infection among the studied population. Finally, it can be deduced from this study that urgent awareness campaign be intensified by both government and non-governmental organizations to reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the area with emphasis on behavioral change and wealth creation.

ABSTRACT The telecommunication is one of the major sectors This paper aims to find level of job satisfaction among Public and Private Telecommunication sector employees of Madhya Pradesh. In this research, 200 public & 200 Private technical and non technical employees, 400 in total, working in BSNL public and Idea, Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance private telecommunication sector were examined. The obtained data is analysed based on descriptive statistics using SPSS 18. Independent sample t-test has been used in this study to analyse the job satisfaction level among male and female telecommunication sector employees and public & private telecommunication sector employees. The study reveals that there is significant difference in the level of job satisfaction of male and female employees. Further it reveals that there is significant difference in the level of job satisfaction among public & private telecommunication sector employees.

The present paper was conducted to know the effects of Traditional and Creative teaching methods on spellings test among school children, how effective it could be to teach children using creative aids compare to traditional ways of teaching spellings. For this purpose descriptive survey method was used. Total 50 students comprising 25 each of Vth and VI grade school going children were selected, for the sample by adopting non probability sampling method of purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by using (A.C.E.R spelling test, 1967) and using standardized version of Creativity test: Developed by (Wallas&Kogan, 1965) and the data was analyzed by computing paired sample't'test. The findings indicate that there is a significant difference on both thetraditional and creative teaching method on spellings test among school children.

This study examined qualifications, experience and retention of quality teachers in private secondary schools in Delta
State. This study is correlational survey in nature of the ex-post-facto research design. The population comprises 324
registered private secondary school principals in Delta State as at 2019/2020 academic year. Stratified sampling
technique was used to sample 162 private secondary school principals. A self-developed instrument titled “Qualification,
Experience and Quality Teachers Questionnaire (QEQTQ)” was used to collect information from the respondents. The
instrument was validated through face and content validity, thereafter it was subjected reliability test and a co-efficient of
0.78, was obtained. The responses were converted into mean scores and standard deviation for the purpose of answering
the research questions while Pearson r was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings show that
quality teachers can be retained through support from school administrator, school location, provision of instructional
facilities, conducive working atmosphere, opportunity to learn new skills and adequate salary among others. Significant
relationship does not exist between qualifications and retention of quality teachers in private secondary schools in Delta
State. While significant relationship exists between experience and retention of quality teachers in private secondary
schools in Delta State. The researcher recommended among others that private secondary schools should not emphasis
more on qualification, rather they should recruit teachers who are willing to learn and impart knowledge to students.
Private secondary schools should strive to retain teachers with experience than those without less experience in order to
achieve their vision and mission.

This study examined rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ (aged 13–19 years, N = 395) attitudes toward children’s self-determination and nurturance rights, and how these attitudes relate to various dimensions of socialization in their family and school environments, including perceptions of parental and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and family and school democratic climate. Relations between these variables and psychological well-being also were examined. Perceived parent and teacher autonomy support and responsiveness and democratic climate differentially predicted attitudes toward each type of right and were positively correlated with adolescents’ psychological well-being. Our findings suggest that environments that are structured more democratically and that are responsive to children’s autonomy needs contribute to their psychological health and well-being in diverse cultural settings.

Talent Management (TM) is originally practiced in the corporate sector for quite some time. Due to its practiced has successful in the corporate organization, Higher Learning Institution (HLI) around the world try to implement TM in their system. Practically, TM seems work in the education system. Up to that, Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) has adopted and adapted TM in HLI. On the other hand, by practicing TM in any sectors, it will help to improve Job Satisfaction (JS) and Performance Management (PM) in the organization. Therefore, in this research, it will examine the relationship between TM towards JS and PM in selected public HLIs in Malaysia. Quantitative approach has been utilized as a part of a request to gather essential information from 238 respondents in selected public HLIs. Data gotten from this technique has been dissected utilizing IBM Statistical Package Social Sciences (SPSS). Accordingly, there was a direct relationship recorded between TM, JS, and PM. Notwithstanding, University A scored marginally higher relationship between's TM, JS and PM when contrasted with other two public HLIs. As a conclusion, every open HLI has their own particular mission and vision that should be accomplished. Along these lines, distinctive techniques may be utilized as a part of TM keeping in mind the end goal to get a decent association with JS and PM. In view of the discoveries got, it demonstrates that public HLI has taken their own particular activity to support their representative JS and PM by utilizing TM has one of the methodologies yet by one means or another, the systems took still should be observed and re-organized to get the great connection between these two factors.

The essay critically examines community oriented
dramaturgical practices in the context of the
veedhi natakamu in Draupadi festival in Southern India,
in the district of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh. The essay
argues that the Draupadi festival is not shaped by a
single authorial or artistic perspective, but by the
communities that are involved in it in elaborate ways:
performers, spectators and festival trustees alike. The
notion of dramaturgy is thus expanded in the process of
adapting it to the ritual-performance contexts of the
Draupadi festival, calling to attention the community
aspects of creating and shaping events.

In modern times, internet and social networks play an important role in the life of many young people specially teenagers. Everyone nowadays is a member to at least one social networking site where they have created a personal profile online which they use to interact. This study brings a broader understanding of the impact that social networks have on adolescents’ in three different fields; academic achievement, social performance and self-esteem. The research questions included in this study are as following: 1) How social networks influence adolescents’ academic achievement? 2. How social networks influence adolescents’ social performance? 3. How social networks influence adolescents’ self-esteem? The survey was completed by 200 secondary school students, where (N= 120, 60%) were male and (N=80, 40 %) were female. Scale reliability was measured which showed that Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for each variable for academic achievement, social performance and self-esteem were .608, .960 and .932. Analyzing adolescents’ academic achievement, social performance and self-esteem results we saw that social networks have an important role in their life.  It is recommended that more research is needed to be carried out in order to further explore the impact that social networks have on adolescents’ academic achievement in

The prevalence of Intestinal parasitic infections is
reported to be high among children in Nigeria. This might
be due to the fact that their immune system is still in the
formative stages and very vulnerable to attack. The effects
of GIT infection in children which include trauma,
nutrition-robbing and poisoning, change in resistance, and
immune impotence etc. Parasites frequently encountered
are Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Strongyloides
stercoralis and others. Information for this review was
sourced online from Google search, PubMed and EBSCO
websites. Key words used for the search included,
Prevalence, Intestinal parasites, GIT infections, Nigeria,
intestinal helminthes, school children. After several input of
key words, 400 articles were generated from the search.
Data was extracted using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Meta-analysis was performed using STATA 13.0. Our metaanalysis shows that the statistical significant prevalence of
GIT infections among Nigerian school children is 0.42 (95%
CI: 0.33 – 0.51), Z=13.87, p<0,001. Result of this research
suggests that more needs to be done by the health
authorities in charge of schools. Pupils need to be given a
regular, periodic and effective dose of health education talk
with emphases on hand-washing, wearing of shoe/sandal
and personal hygiene. There should be improvement in
supervision of activities of students while in school with
school authorities being prevailed upon to provide clean
and decent surroundings for the children. Schools should
also ensure proper accreditation for food vendors to
prevent their spreading infection to students.

Human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen causing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), adjudged to be the most significant emerging infectious disease in the world, is causing health, social and developmental problems globally. This study was carried out on subjects recruited at random from various centers in Orashi geopolitical region of Rivers state, Nigeria. This study evaluated the incidence of HIV/AIDS and assessed the HIV/AIDS high risk group in Orashi region. Additionally, it attempted ascertaining the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on other sector of the economy as agriculture, households, labour, and their socio-cultural implications for the society. However, the study showed no significant difference in HIV infection among people of different age groups, with an overall HIV prevalence of 10.6%. The results also showed a negative attitude among the people of the area even when 94% respondents agreed to have heard of HIV/AIDS and 54.9% of respondents have not used a condom before while 56.7% agreed to have had their first sexual experience before age 15. However, the highest HIV prevalence was observed among ages 25-34 and 45-60, but statistical analysis using ANOVA shows no significant difference between age groups and prevalence of HIV infection among the studied population. Finally, it can be deduced from this study that urgent awareness campaign be intensified by both government and non-governmental organizations to reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the area with emphasis on behavioral change and wealth creation.

Indian software industry is witnessing a rapid
growth where the sector is estimated to have generated
US$ 142 billion in revenue during 2015 compared to US$
111 billion in 2014, implying a growth rate of 22.43 per
cent. From the perspective of labour relations and the
workforce, the industry is distinctive in its apparently
woman-friendly policies. Major players in the industry
boast themselves on their well-designed HR policies,
blended with tall claims about equality of opportunity
that is supposed to give equal opportunity to women. In
reality, software sector is still a male dominated industry
which tends to exclude or marginalise women. Although
researches suggests a reasonable gender neutral pursuit
by this industry, an adequate level of gender inclusivity is
yet to be accomplished. Important players claim to have
achieved higher levels of psychological well-being
experienced by employees through creating a gender
neutral environment. Data was collected from 400
software engineers working in three large organizations
with the help of online questionnaires. Analysis of data
was carried out using one way ANOVA with the aid of
SPSS software. It was found that female employees
perceived higher levels of psychological well-being
compared to that of male employees working in software
industry. It was also found that female employees
perceived higher levels of the pleasure and purpose
dimension of psychological wellbeing compared to that of
male employees working in IT sector.

This study looks at organizational commitments and motivational strategies across Estate Surveying and Valuation Firms from the point of view of the young surveyors or employees, i.e. to say that principal consultants or partners/associates are not part of the respondents. The study identified some motivational strategies across firm and the perceptions of young surveyors to these strategies. The study concluded that most of these motivational strategies are not well taken into consideration by different firms judging from the respondents answers to questionnaire distributed, it however recommended that principal Consultants/Partners should as a matter of necessity try to make the recommendations and findings of this research part and parcel of the practice, when this is done young surveyors will attracted to professional practice.
KEYWORDS: Organizational commitment, motivation, strategies, Estate Firms, professional practice.

Software Industry in India is moving through a phase of rapid growth where competition between the various players has intensified. IT sector in India is estimated to have generated US$ 145 billion in revenue during 2015 compared to US$ 114 billion in 2014, implying a growth rate of 23.22 per cent. The contribution of the IT sector to India's GDP increased to a mind blowing 9.5 per cent in 2015 from 1.2 per cent in 1998. The top five organizations contribute around 33 per cent to the total industry revenue, depicting the market is fairly competitive, with TCS being the leader accounting for about 10.1 per cent. Man power is the major resource which defines the core competencies of IT firms. Therefore, most of the organizations are focusing the strategic objective of attracting capable employees, developing them in the organization, retaining them and maintaining the knowledge they create. For this to happen, HR departments should take a more significant role in the organization. With adequate backing from top management, the HR function in software companies are trying to bring in innovation in the Human Resource practices to manage the tough competition. Even though a lot of literature states about the importance of such practices, research efforts have not been undertaken to understand the extent and impact of Innovative Human Resource Practices in India especially in the Information technology context. This research tries to focus on defining the link between innovative human resource practices and job satisfaction. 400 individuals employed in 20 software firms were considered for the study and data collection was done with the help of online questionnaires. Results showed that innovative human resource practices have a strong impact on job satisfaction.

Indian software industry is witnessing a rapid
growth where the sector is estimated to have generated
US$ 142 billion in revenue during 2015 compared to US$
111 billion in 2014, implying a growth rate of 22.43 per
cent. From the perspective of labour relations and the
workforce, the industry is distinctive in its apparently
woman-friendly policies. Major players in the industry
boast themselves on their well-designed HR policies,
blended with tall claims about equality of opportunity
that is supposed to give equal opportunity to women. In
reality, software sector is still a male dominated industry
which tends to exclude or marginalise women. Although
researches suggests a reasonable gender neutral pursuit
by this industry, an adequate level of gender inclusivity is
yet to be accomplished. Important players claim to have
achieved higher levels of psychological well-being
experienced by employees through creating a gender
neutral environment. Data was collected from 400
software engineers working in three large organizations
with the help of online questionnaires. Analysis of data
was carried out using one way ANOVA with the aid of
SPSS software. It was found that female employees
perceived higher levels of psychological well-being
compared to that of male employees working in software
industry. It was also found that female employees
perceived higher levels of the pleasure and purpose
dimension of psychological wellbeing compared to that of
male employees working in IT sector.

This study investigated the relationship between goal-striving, goal-aspiration, metacognition, and eudaimonic wellbeing (EWB). Inspired by Aristotle's teaching, the rationale for this study is that eudaimonic well-being is achievable through self-actualizing processes such as goal-striving and goal-aspiration and by exercise of reason. Goal-striving, metacognition (as a way of exercise of reason), and goal-aspiration (as an indicator of eudaimonic pursuits) were explored in relation to EWB. A mediation analysis of a sample of 513 university students (M age = 25.07, SD = 7.21) indicated that metacognition partially mediated the relationship between goal-striving and EWB for the full sample (p < .001) and goal-aspiration moderated this relationship. High goal-aspiration indicated a full mediation while low goal-aspiration indicated only a partial mediation. The finding suggests that metacognition which is a teachable competence and goal-aspiration which is a trainable desire can play a determining role in individuals' selfactualization and EWB.