PSYCHOLOGY

SELF CONFIDENCE One pleasent evening of 1960's I was travelling in a train along with my father. It was driven by a steam Engine with a rythematic sound chikku- bukku.My thoughts were also dancing in synchronisation with that engine sound.The next morning i had to take up an entrance examination for getting admission in Regional college of education. I was running with mild temperature. when i told my father, he laughed at me and said it may be an Examination fever and administered a pill. I was little bit nervous . Suddenly the train halted in a small village side station. Both sides green fields. In the farther end of west there was a hill. I was lured by the panoramic view of sun set.I didn't feel the exam fear.Cool breeze was pleasent.Slowly as night came the sky was dark.once again i started thinking of my exam. As it was common entrance for four southern states i was not hopeful in selection. The next morning we have reached the destination. In the tourist home where we h...

Let me take you back to your school days. Teacher was taking the New chapter. In the middle of his lecture he is shooting some questions. We notice that two or three students only answers immedietly just like a bullet. Some answers with some hesitation if specifically asked . Few students drop their head so as to hide from teacher's notice. The student who answers to almost all questions first beliefs himself that he can tell the answer. He always wants to be a superior student . what makes him to act so swiftly. That is the personal evaluation of himself. This is known as Self-Esteem. The California task force defines self-esteem as below. "appriciating my own worth and importance and having the character to be accountable for myself and to act responsibily towards others" The student who acts quickly has high self -esteem.The others have low or very low self Esteem. If the individual person with high self -esteem faces failure in a particular area in which he thinks him...

Personality is defined by Allport as below. “ Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to the environment” It is a complex structure of traits( mental structure) as viewed by Cattell. It is an inference made from the observed consistency in behaviour. Thinking, feeling and behaving constitute the methods of adjustment of individual towards Environment. The personality Traits may be positive or Negative. The positive traits make the individual to cope with the people and environment and events. The negative trait will produce loneliness, anxiety and failures. Through proper training and practice in the following areas the individuals personality can be developed. 1. Psychological (emotional) adjustment. 2. Self analysis 3. Self confidence. 4. Stress management. 5. Community activities. 6. Religion and culture. 7. Self hypnosis. 8. Assertiveness. 9. Anger control. 10. Interpersonal relationship. 11....

Having gone through the reactions of stress on physiological and Psychological health, it is essential to learn about stress management techniques.Prior to that it is better to assertain the level of stress by a qualified psychologist by administering stress measuring scale. Before going to stress management techniques, let us see what other professionals say about STress management. Er.B.Amaresan, software Engineer,Silicon valley,USA says the following. "I strongly feel these are important to get rid of Stress." Meditation. Religion. Take responsiblity of your decision. Honesty. Content. Be passionate about your life. Sports. Love. And when I thought about why people are getting stressed, I think they encounter a problem and they want to resolve and they know that its beyond their capability. When you have the attitude of "I will do what I can and learn what I dont" some problems are resolved. And last but not least, people forget one important thing in life. Whe...

There are certain disorders which will affect the mental balance of the person under severe stress.They are as follows. 1) ANXIETY DISORDERS: i) Panic disorders: The reason for this is unexpected panic attacks. The symptoms are shortness of breath,palpitations,sweating,dizziness, fear of dying etc. ii) Post traumatic disord ers; It is a life threatning psychological trauma such as victim of physical or emotional violence. The symptoms are anxiety,apprehension,tension, repetitive nightmares, insomnia, depression, suicidal tendencies. iii)Phobias: It is fear mediated avoidance behaviour due to the danger posed by an object or situation and the person behaves out of proportion. Various phobias are mentioned below. A crophobia: fear of high places. Agoraphobia:fear of being in situations or places where escape is impossible. Clustro phobia: fear of closed places. Hemato phobia: fear of Blood. Monophobia: fear of being alone. pathophobia:fear of diseases. Ocholophobia: fear of crowds. iv) O...

Dr. swaminathan in his article on theoritical views on stress and sress related health problems says that any condition that makes the body mobilize its resources and burn more energy than it is normaly does is called Stress. As per Hans selye, three stages appear to occur in the body's reaction to sress. viz. Alarm reaction, Resistance, and Exhaustion. They are called the General adaptation syndrome(G.A.S) i) Alarm Reaction: If an individual is emotionally aroused the following bodily changes takes place. They are: Dilation of pupils,dryness of throat,nervous perspiration, need to urinate frequently,trembling, rapid pulse,tense muscles ,profuse sweating etc., ii) Resistance: If the stress continues for some time the individual enters the second stage called resistance to stress. In this stage the individual recovers from the first burst of emotion and tries to endure the situation as best one could. iii)Exhaustion: When one arrives at this point, he/she has exhausted the internal...

As the working pattern has been changed due to technology out sourcing, the diet and sleeping pattern changed.Due to work load the employees are under constant stress. To get the work done, the companies are encouraging weekend parties and picnics. Though they say that it will reduce the stress, it adversly increases the stress of parents,wife and children. Because of such paties, in some cases due addiction of alcohol,Cultural and Moral values are sinking.Often a news comes that a youth is drowned in swimming pool after party due to drinking. Now a days the divorces are increasing .within one or two months of marriage ,the highly qualified couples are approaching court for divorce. All due to what? That is due to poor psychological adjustment. They cannot cope up with the real life problems and pressures.They are lacking in work life balance. Constant stress will land one in depression,insomnia, ulcer, High blood pressure,Hyper- tension,MigraineHeadaches, Astma ...

Gone are days with lantern lights, but human life was bright and straight. Now the world is glowing with Atomic power but the life is gloomy and bent.With growing globel marketing,IT sector is booming.But the human Stress are zooming. what is stress? stress is an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body (or) by environmental and social situations which are evaluated as potentially harmful,uncontrollable or exeeding our resources for coping. Stress is the inner pressure caused by three sets of factors as mentioned below: 1) endogeneous 2) exogeneous and 3) interaction of endogeneous and exogeneous factors. endogeneous means internal(endo means inner ;geneous means origin or genesis) or originating from within; exogeneous means external (exo means outside) or originating from outside. in the modern world, a baby is under stress since not getting enough mother's milk and care,since she is away from home since employed. school going chlidren are under stress d...