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Altering Intention to Mudik during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Salient Cue and Simple Reminder Nudge Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Dimas Budi Prasetyo, Lury Sofyan
Mudik is a unique exodus in Indonesia where people travel to hometown during Eid festive season. It posed a challenge for the government to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Several reports have identified that people still stick with their plan to Mudik amidst the latest Mudik ban. Thus, a scientific nudge campaign is pivotal to influence Mudik behaviour. The present study designed and tested five
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Neighbourhood Supports for Active Ageing in Urban India Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-22 Deepti Adlakha, Murali Krishna, Ryan Woolrych, Geraint Ellis
Developing urban environments that promote healthy, active living for older adults is at the forefront of global planning policy debates, resulting in concepts and design guidelines to support population ageing. However, current urban planning in India is overlooking the design of age-friendly cities. The share of older adults in India is estimated to increase from 8 per cent in 2015 to 20 per cent
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Epistemic Violence in Research on Eldercare Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Darlingtina K. Esiaka, Glenn Adams
Decolonial perspectives challenge the notion that standard knowledge in hegemonic psychology is productive of progress and enlightenment. They instead emphasise its association with the colonial violence that constitutes the darker underside of modern development. Our contribution to the special issue applies a decolonial perspective to theory and research on obligation to an elderly parent. Thinking
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Ageing and Values in the Developments of Home-Based Eldercare: Perspectives from India and Sweden Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Urmi Nanda Biswas, Lotta Dellve, Anindo Bhattacharjee, Maria Wolmesjӧ
Ageing population is becoming a major concern because of its economic, political and social impact. Trusted eldercare service is an important issue for a matured nation. The paper addresses the preconditions of healthy ageing and sustainable value integrated eldercare in a developing and a developed society. In India, professional eldercare is about a decade old and is still emerging to get a foothold
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Assessment of Lifestyle Experiences across Lifespan and Cognitive Ageing in the Indian Context Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Avanthi Paplikar, Divya Ballal, Feba Varghese, Jala Sireesha, Ramya Dwivedi, Amulya Rajan, Shailaja Mekala, Faheem Arshad, Subhash Kaul, Suvarna Alladi
With rising numbers of elderly and dementia in developing societies, there is a need to understand factors protective against dementia. Evidence suggests that lifetime cognitive activities including education, occupation, and complex leisure activities contribute to cognitive reserve. However, these factors are understudied in India. This paper describes the validation of the Lifetime of Experiences
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Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods: Exploring Place Insideness Amongst Older Adults in India, Brazil and the United Kingdom Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Ryan Woolrych, Jamuna Duvurru, Adriana Portella, Judith Sixsmith, Deborah Menezes, Jenny Fisher, Rebecca Lawthom, Srikanth Reddy, Anupama Datta, Indrani Chakravarty, Abdul Majeed Khan, Michael Murray, Meiko Makita, Maria Zubair, Gisele Pereira
The ageing in place agenda emphasises the importance of supporting older adults to age in their communities surrounded by the personal resources to age well. In exploring the relationship between older people and their environment, the concept of place insideness is seen as central to constructing feelings of identity, belonging and attachment in old age. Yet there has been little research exploring
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Cognitive Ageing in Developing Societies: An Overview and a Cross-sectional Study on Young, Middle-aged and Older Adults in the Indian Context Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Richa Nigam, Bhoomika R. Kar
Cognitive ageing in developing societies is marked with psychosocial issues such as education, occupation, lifestyle, social support, social interaction and exclusion that may affect cognitive–affective–behavioural changes with ageing. We also present a study based on cognitive profiling of young (N = 79), middle-aged (N = 54) and older adults (N = 43) in India, which examined learning and memory for
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Book Review: Mahima Nayar (Ed.), Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing Among Women Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Mala Sinha
The book Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing Among Women, by Mahima Nayar makes a brave effort to deconstruct mental illness in women living in urban ghettos (low-income neighbourhoods of large cities). Women in these localities go through extreme social suffering caused by oppressive socio-economic conditions and burden of both house and paid work leads to mental illness. The thrust
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Identity and Otherisation in Northeast India: Representations in Media Texts Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Korsi Dorene Kharshiing
Asymmetrical power relations between ‘us’, or the in-group, and the ‘others’, or the out-group, are key to the construction and understanding of otherisation. Otherness in Meghalaya, Northeast India is made complex by historical, geopolitical, social, linguistic and cultural factors that are instrumental in creating boundaries between the tribal and non-tribal populace. The present article examines
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Śraddhā: Construct Definition from the Bhagavad-Gītā Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
In this article, the construct of śraddhā which is derived from a sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad-Gītā is explicated. The analysis of text resulted in nine themes, and many behavioural outcomes of śraddhā such as not finding faults in others. Jñāna or knowledge is seen as mediating between śraddhā and mokṣa or liberation. This relationship is moderated by tatparaḥ (or eager engagement in the spiritual
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Where Occidental Science Went Wrong: Failing to See Systemic Unity in Diversity Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Jaan Valsiner
I find the conceptual field where Oriental and Occidental perspectives in psychology meet in the analysis of borders within systems—looking at the specific mechanisms under which these borders can inhibit or enhance the exchange relations between parts within the whole. The Occidental science has selected a non-fruitful pathway to knowledge that prescribes context-free categorisation of elements instead
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Be(com)ing a Woman: Body, Authority and Society Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Rituparna Chakraborty, Sonali De
The contemporary Indian society apparently seems to be at a juncture where it claims more number of women to be educated and independent but, on the other hand, the incidents of vicious mental, social and corporeal violations of women are at peak. Amidst all the ongoing blazing talks and movements, this study is a small attempt of delving into the tale of being women, which may help in cognising the
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Deradicalisation and Disengagement from Terrorism and Threat to Identity: An Analysis of Former Jihadist Prisoners’ Accounts Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-08-20 Muhammad Syafiq
This qualitative study aims to explore the personal experience of former prisoners jailed for terrorism-related offenses in Indonesia who have reported or have been reported as having deradicalised or disengaged from violent extremism. The participants were interviewed about their experiences of deradicalisation and disengagement and the perceived implication of the experiences on their identities
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Gendered Boundaries, Cultured Lives: The Underexplored Dimensions of Duty (Kartavya) in the Indian Family Context Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Rachana Bhangaokar, Shagufa Kapadia
The article highlights gender-specific elements in the notions of duty (kartavya) in the Indian familial context. Using a hypothetical dilemma about gender roles and employment, in depth interviews were conducted with 120 respondents comprising young adults and their parents from the Maharashtrian community of Vadodara city, Gujarat, India. A majority of respondents, men as well as women, could recognize
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Bihari Identity: An Uncharted Question Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Jyoti Verma
Sources of multidisciplinary social sciences were consulted for understanding the Bihari identity narrative. Bihar’s glorious history and landmark events of 100 years (1912–2012), were briefly examined. Observations and sparse empirical findings were used for presenting the Bihari identity discourse. Seemingly, the identities ‘fighter’ and ‘revolutionary’ resulted from the land’s rebellious background
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Reification of Collective Victimhood: Dalit Narratives, Social Repositioning and Transformation Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Aparna Vyas, Minati Panda
Contrary to the passivity embedded in the term ‘victim’, collective victimhood experienced by the Dalits is highly active and agentic. Dalits negotiate the meaning of collective victimhood in various creative expressions where they project their lived experiences of ‘being’ and reify them at the collective level thus generating a radical shift in the very meaning of their state of being the victims
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When the Advantaged Feel Victimised: The Case of Hindus in India Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-03-01 R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, V. N. Tripathi
This article seeks to understand the collective victimhood of the Hindus, a majority group in India, relative to the feelings of collective victimhood of the Muslim minority. It studies the role that is played by feelings of collective victimhood (CV) along with ingroup identity, fraternalistic relative deprivation (FRD), intergroup emotions and relative power in responding to intergroup conflict situations
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Caste-based Oppression, Trauma and Collective Victimhood in Erstwhile South India: The Collective Therapeutic Potential of Theyyam Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Shaima Ahammed
The decades of collective victimhood and trauma that the oppressed lower caste members in the southern state of India (Kerala) suffered in silence were less known to the world until the socio-religious reform movements offered a space for their collective expression of agitation and unrest. With no socially sanctioned channels to express their injustice and pain, the folk ritual of Theyyam often became
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Traditional Stories as Possible Vignettes in the Research of Moral Judgement: A Preliminary Report Using Stories from Mahabharata Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Swagata Choudhuri, Jayanti Basu
The most prevalent stimuli for exploring moral judgement in laboratory settings are small vignettes in the form of moral dilemmas. These dilemmas, mostly borrowed from the field of philosophy, are often criticised for lacking ecological validity due to their confined outcomes, hypothetical physical harms, focus on one character and overlooking cultural aspects. These criticisms are especially implicative
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The (Im)possible Embrace: A Search for Non-violent Possibilities in the Aftermath of Violent Uprootedness Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-02-14 Honey Oberoi Vahali, Diamond Oberoi Vahali
In spite of upholding it as an aspiration, a commitment to non-violence in motivation, thought and action is rare. Its realization is contingent on a confluence of complex politico-historical contingencies and psychic possibilities. The actualization of such a historical moment is also contingent on a collective awakening in the consciousness and conscience of a group to reclaim its losses through
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Renegotiating Israeli Identities, Collective Victimhood and Social Exclusion of Arab Israelis in a Changing Social Reality Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-02-14 Maya Hadar
This article discusses the changing nature of the Israeli identity and core values against the backdrop of political and social processes that took place in Israel in recent decades. Special attention was given to manifestations of collective victimhood within the framework of the Israeli society and politics and the way the latter obstructed social inclusion of Arab Israelis and of acknowledging commonalities
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Explaining Muslims’ Aggressive Tendencies Towards the West: The Role of Negative Stereotypes, Anger, Perceived Conflict and Islamic Fundamentalism Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-02-11 Ali Mashuri, Esti Zaduqisti
The current research was to investigate what psychological factors predict Muslims’ negative stereotypes of the West, and the underlying mechanism by which the negative stereotypes can translate into Muslims’ aggressive tendencies towards the West. A correlational survey among a sample of Indonesian Muslims (N = 360) demonstrated that the more participants negatively stereotyped the West, the more
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Towards a Psychology of Cultural Globalisation: A Sense of Self in a Changing World Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2019-02-05 Simon Ozer
Cultural interconnectivity motivated by globalisation has transformed societies and interpersonal interactions around the world. Furthermore, on a psychological level, individuals are intensely influenced by the new contextual complexity challenging the processes of developing a sense of belonging and a sense of self. This article discusses and integrates relevant psychological theories for approaching
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Personality, Culture and Career Assessment Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-09-01 S. K. Priyadharshini, L. S. Ganesh, Balaraju Kondaveeti
This article reviews the literature on indigenisation of personality measures, including adaptations of existing, well-established Western ones, and justifies in detail the need in India. It is evident that despite over 200 ‘indigenous’ instruments mentioned in the National Library of Educational and Psychological Tests, apparently none has gained widespread awareness even among practitioners, not
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Emotional Reactions to Intergroup Norm Violations Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-08-22 R. C. Tripathi, Rashmi Kumar, Roomana N. Siddiqui, Shabana Bano
The present study investigates emotional reactions that follow norm violations involving Hindus and Muslims in India. It also studies how in-group’s emotional reaction is predicted by the emotion that the group experiences in tandem with certain contextual factors, such as, fraternal relative deprivation (FRD), social identity, power to harm and resource power. Data were collected on 221 Hindus and
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Stress in Factory Workers in Italy Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-07-24 Roberto Capasso, Maria Clelia Zurlo, Andrew P. Smith
The ethnicity and work-related stress model (EWS; Capasso, Zurlo, & Smith, 2018, British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 15, 1–20) integrated EWS dimensions in a multidimensional perspective combining demographic (sex, education) and individual characteristics (coping styles, Type A and Type D), cultural dimensions (acculturation strategies, perceived racial discrimination), work
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The Effects of Language Use on Time Perspectives in Multilingual Morocco Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-07-20 Alexander Unger, Karim Gassemi, Julie Papastamatelou
In the current study, we tested the effects of language on time perspective orientation in a Moroccan student sample. Four explanation, mechanisms have been considered: first, the priming of different contents by the use of different languages; second, the influence of the use of different languages on the social identity; third, the altering of memory capacity fostered by the use of a foreign language;
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Health-promoting Lifestyle, Illness Control Beliefs and Well-being of the Obese Diabetic Women Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-07-15 Purnima Awasthi, Ramesh C. Mishra, S. K. Singh
The study examines the role of health-promoting lifestyle and illness control beliefs in well-being of obese diabetic women. Measures of illness control belief, health-promoting lifestyle and obesity-related well-being were given to 100 obese diabetic women selected from outdoors of hospitals in Varanasi. Analysis revealed patients’ stronger belief in ‘doctor-control’ and ‘supernatural-control’ than
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Trust as a Skill Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-02-07 Larysa Tamilina, Natalya Tamilina
A growing body of research is considering how social trust is built at the individual and societal levels. This study introduces a new conceptual framework of trust formation by uniting dispositional and experiential determinants into a single analytical framework. By drawing on psychological theories of skill acquisition, we describe trust as shaped by four factors: crystallised, cognitive, contact
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Infancy and Caring Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-02-05 Kari Vik (KV), Vickfarajaeli Zebedayo Daudi (VZD), Lusajo Joel Kajula (LJK), Rolf Rohde (RR), Omary Said Ubuguyu (OSU), Joseph Ndukusi Saibulu (JNS)
Caregivers at an institution for motherless infants in rural Tanzania participated in focus group interviews and participant observations. This paper aims at describing how they perceive infancy, caring and sensitivity in their everyday context. It adds knowledge from Tanzania about institutional infant care and the concept of sensitivity in caregiving, based on an approach sensitive to culture and
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Multilevel Connection as a Pathway to Healing in a Low-income South African Community Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-02-05 Arlene Benjamin
Combined forces of colonialism, tribalism and apartheid were influential, powerful and controlling legislators behind the continued cycle of violence in South Africa. The capacity for healing in the face of ongoing adversity has received growing attention in contexts of historical trauma and the developing world where an understanding of the cultural and historical past is crucial to healing. Notwithstanding
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Adults’ Conceptualisations of Children’s Social Competence in Nepal and Malawi Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-01-29 Danming An, Natalie D. Eggum-Wilkens, Sophia Chae, Sarah R. Hayford, Scott T. Yabiku, Jennifer E. Glick, Linlin Zhang
Adults in Nepal (N = 14) and Malawi (N = 12) were interviewed about their views regarding social competence of 5- to 17-year-old children in their societies. Both Nepali and Malawian adults discussed themes consistent with those expected in collectivistic societies with economic challenges (e.g., respect and obedience, family responsibilities, and social relationships). There were also unique themes
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The Social Intentionality of Battered Women’s Agency in Ghana Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2018-01-09 Stephen Baffour Adjei
There is a growing body of research which suggests that victims of intimate partner violence (IPV; mostly women) continue to remain in abusive relationships. Many of the Western psychological theorisations focus on battered women’s personal dispositions and/or the self-creating (individualistic) view of agency to explain why victims remain in violent relationships. These studies seem to suggest that
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The Solution for the Behavioural Constellation of Deprivation Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Jose L. Vilchez
Learned helplessness occurs when one is unable to escape from a painful or aversive experience is unable to be escaped from (Hiroto & Seligman, 1975). The organism learns that it is helpless in and accepts its loss of control in those situations. This point is taken into account to explain the behavioural constellation of deprivation (BCD), in which one finds it difficult to escape from poverty. A
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Psychosocial Pathways Towards a Sustainable Society Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 R. C. Tripathi, Sunit Singh
This article focuses on a social intervention effort that has been going on for about 15 years to free a group of people who have been under debt bondage in rural India. They have worked as members of self-help groups (SHGs) and now are members of a producers’ company devoted to the cause of organic farming. The article investigates the role that is played by greed, altruism and social capital in sustainability
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Physical Social Capital and Psychosocial Social Capital as Mediators Between Socio-economic Inequality and Expressions of Well-being and Health in Israeli Kibbutz Populations Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Uriel Leviatan
A large number of studies show that degree of socio-economic inequality ‘within’ a social entity negatively determines levels of well-being and life expectancy, and is positively associated with morbidity and mortality. This relationship holds over and above the impact of average income level. This initially suggested model put forward a causal flow with mediating variables of ‘relative deprivation’
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Book Review: Stefan Ecks, Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in IndiaEcksStefan, Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2014, $75, 221 pages. Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Sudarshan R. Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan
The dominance of psychiatric practice in India and the relatively obscured homeopathic and Ayurvedic practices are the major issues explicated in Ecks’ Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. Overcoming patients’ resistance to compliance is a major task of the Kolkata psychiatrists interviewed by Ecks, and they sought to deal with this by positing drugs as ‘mind food’. Ayurveda and homeopathy
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Meaning of Happy Life for the Kharwars in India in Their Journey Towards Development Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 R. C. Mishra
The study examines the notion of happy life and its ingredients in a rural adivasi (first nation people) community experiencing the influences of acculturation and development taking place in the rapidly globalising world. The study was carried out on 200 males of the Kharwar adivasi group residing in 11 villages of the Naugarh Block of Chanduali district in Uttar Pradesh. The participants, aged 30–60
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Suicidal and Death Ideation in a Cohort of Psychiatric Outpatients Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Sarojini Naidoo, Steven J. Collings
In Africa, data on the prevalence and predictors of death and suicidal ideation is lacking. In this study, a cross-sectional design was used to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for death and suicidal ideation in a cohort of 239 psychiatric patients receiving outpatient treatment at nine sites in the Durban area (South Africa) in 2015. Prevalence rates for death and suicidal ideation were
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Psychology at the Crossroads Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Rashmi Jaipal
The author argues that if psychologists are to contribute meaningfully to the United Nations’ agenda for sustainable development (SD) 2030, they will need to shift from a model that is biologically based individual model to a holistic, contextual and cultural model. Global media and consumer culture have created unhealthy, social and cultural environments, which are seen as having an adverse effect
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Filipino Parenting in the USA Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Aileen S. Garcia, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Migration entails complex transformations in family functioning and dynamics, especially when traditional parenting beliefs and practices are not consistent with mainstream norms in the host country. Whereas some culturally embedded parenting beliefs might persist even after migration, others may acculturate or shift to align with child-rearing norms in the host community. Using a qualitative research
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‘Why I Sent My Child Away’ Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Deepa Srivastava, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Although long-distance parenting is often depicted as a response to crisis (e.g., economic) or other stressful life events, it is sometimes undertaken in various culturally normative situations. This current study explores the motivations of South Asian Indian immigrant parents for sending their young children to India to live temporarily with their grandparents. This qualitative study involves in-depth
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Bringing Spirit Back In, the Vedic Way Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Ramashray Roy
The author engages with recent attempts to develop an Indian psychology and develops a strong case for a spiritual psychology. The article discusses the evolution of the science in the West to point out that spirituality fell by the wayside because modern science accepted a model of man which denies its connection with the divine. Modern Indian psychology has also adopted this approach. Vedic texts
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Public Fears in Ukrainian Society Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Sviatoslav R. Rybnikov, Natalya A. Rybnikova, Boris A. Portnov
Numerous experimental studies have revealed that two statistical measures of biological populations—(a) the correlation between certain parameters of their members and (b) the dispersion of theses parameters—simultaneously increase under stress conditions. Later on, this effect was confirmed also for financial systems. In our study we tested the applicability of these two stress-indicating statistical
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Disability and Social Exclusion Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Elina I. Tobias, Sourav Mukhopadhyay
This article explores the experiences of social exclusion of individuals with visual impairment (IWVI) as they negotiate their daily lives in their homes and societal settings in the Oshana and Oshikoto regions of Namibia. Employing qualitative research approach, this research tried to better understand the lived experiences of IWVI. Nine IWVI with ages ranging from 30 to 90 years were initially engaged
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A Majority Group’s Perspective-taking Towards a Minority Group Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Ali Mashuri, Esti Zaduqisti, Miftahul Ula
This research investigates the impact of perspective-taking on a majority group’s support for government action to help a minority group. Data among a sample of Indonesian Muslims (N = 380), representing a religious majority group in Indonesia, showed that perspective-taking was a strong positive predictor of Muslims’ support for government action to help Christian minority. Relative Muslim prototypicality
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Perceived Parental Behaviour of Juvenile Delinquent Boys in Prison Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Hailu Legesse Wubishet, Karla van Leuween
In order to investigate associations between parenting and delinquent behaviour in an Ethiopian context, we studied both a target group of adolescent boys (aged 13–19 years) in prison (n = 86) and a control group (n = 93). The boys completed questionnaires on perceived parenting practices and their own prosocial and problem behaviours. The results showed that boys in the prison group reported significantly
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Women’s Narratives about Identity, Power and Agency within a Mining Organisation in South Africa Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Leigh Johnstone, Anil Bhagwanjee, Shaida Bobat
Drawing on social constructionist and post-structuralist theoretical frameworks, this study examined the complexities that constitute women’s narratives within a mining organisation in South Africa. With specific reference to the social constructs of identity, conflict and power, the aims of this study were to investigate how women narrate their experience, the ways in which women live with the tensions
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Towards a Human Rights Based and Oriented Psychology Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Polli Hagenaars
Psychologists have a societal responsibility for promoting human rights and preventing human rights violations. In 2013 a Board Human Rights and Psychology was established by the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA), in order to raise awareness of the importance of human rights for psychologists, and of psychology for human rights. In the first section a brief history of human rights
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Integration of Basic Controversies in Cross-cultural Psychology Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Ype H. Poortinga
This article discusses controversies in the field of cross-cultural psychology, including cultural psychology, with a view to possible integration.1 It briefly describes the indigenisation movement as a reaction against Western scientific ethnocentrism and mentions two methodological topics, that is, lack of equivalence of cross-cultural data and issues with culture-comparative studies designed as
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Impact of Globalisation on Mental Health in Low- and Middle-income Countries Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Sagar Sharma
The paper presents a critical review of core social and psychological determinants of mental health from a life-course perspective which operate at micro (individual) and macro (societal–structural) levels in the context of globalisation using the World Health Organization–Commission on Social Determinants of Health conceptual framework. It analyses how globalisation-induced changes implicate social
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Fun and Sexy, but Less Responsible Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Ximena Flores, Judith L. Gibbons, Katelyn E. Poelker
Globalisation is transforming the lives, ideals and development of youth worldwide, including adolescents in Guatemala. We hypothesised that the attitudes of today’s Guatemalan adolescents as reflected in their views of the ideal man and woman would more closely converge with those of the global adolescent compared to their compatriots 25 years earlier. Urban adolescents’ ratings and drawings in 2014
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The Effects of Sex Education on the Risky Sexual Behaviour of School Going Adolescents Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-19 San Rashid, Marisen Mwale
Adolescents are at a high risk for a number of health consequences associated with early and unsafe sexual activity including infection with HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies. The amplified sexual risk-taking behaviour among adolescents culminates into thinking that perhaps lack of knowledge pertaining to sex and sexuality provokes adolescents into undertaking
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Mental Health in Namibia Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Theodore T. Bartholomew
Psychological distress is inherently constructed within contexts and the unique, cultural meaning systems that have developed to understand mental illness. Moreover, cultures naturally develop their own systems of healing, grounded in traditional practices. Western psychology and psychiatry have, through globalisation and colonial histories, imposed systems of mental health care and definitions of
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Perceptions and Reasons for Veiling Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Uma Bhowon, Harshalini Bundhoo
This qualitative study aimed to capture the views and reasons for veiling by young Muslim women in a social context where ethnic/religious identity is not contested or threatened. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted with young Muslim women who had started wearing the veil for the past four to five years. There was consensus amongst the respondents that wearing the veil was an obligation
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Childhood Maltreatment and Perception of Child Maltreatment among Respondents in Nigeria Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Funmi O. Bammeke, Sunday B. Fakunmoju
This study examined childhood maltreatment and perception of maltreatment among respondents in Nigeria. A sample of 304 respondents completed online questionnaire on childhood experience and perception of abusive behaviours. Descriptive analysis was used to examine the responses. Of the 71 abusive behaviours examined, a high level of consensus (95–100 per cent agreement) was reached on five sexually
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Work Engagement and Its Relationship with Various Dimensions of Work-related Well-being in the Public Transport Industry Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Johanna H. Buitendach, Shaida Bobat, Rutendo F. Muzvidziwa, Herbert Kanengoni
This study investigated work engagement and its relationship with various dimensions of employee well-being among Zimbabwean bus drivers (n = 283). The participants completed variety of scales on various dimensions of work-related well-being: job satisfaction, happiness, stress/burnout, job demands and resources; and work engagement viz: the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), the Minnesota Satisfaction
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The Virtual World of Social Networking Sites Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Pooja Pradeep, Sujata Sriram
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook have made inroads in the life of users. The current study used a quantitative approach to explore adolescents’ usage of SNS in Mumbai and their perceptions and experiences of the same. The sample consisted of 121 adolescent boys and girls in the age group of 13–18 years. Easily accessible Internet and availability of devices such as smartphones influenced
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The Role of Identity Subversion in Structuring the Effects of Intergroup Threats and Negative Emotions on Belief in Anti-West Conspiracy Theories in Indonesia Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2016-02-17 Ali Mashuri, Esti Zaduqisti, Fitri Sukmawati, Halimatus Sakdiah, Ninik Suharini
Indonesian Muslims believe in conspiracies, suggesting that the West is behind terrorist attacks in Indonesia. This belief persists despite overwhelming evidence that Islamist radicals were the true perpetrators. The current research examines the role intergroup threats and negative emotions have in moulding this type of conspiratorial belief, and how this role is dependent upon the level of Muslims’
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