Predicting Relationship Satisfaction from Dispositional Optimism Amongst young adults in Mumbai city
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This study was conducted to see whether it was possible to use dispositional optimism to predict satisfaction with romantic relationships in young adults in Mumbai city. Data was collected from 92 participants using purposive and snowball sampling methods. All participants of both genders who were aged between 20 – 30 years and were in a relationship for at least one year before data collection. Statistical analysis suggested that dispositional optimism was a highly significant predictor of relationship satisfaction among the research participants. The reasons and implications of these findings are discussed.
Authors and Affiliations
Anuja Deshpande, Gauri Sarda
The impact of personality types and gender on attitude towards drinking alcohol in patients with depression
Background: Personality does play a role in the genesis of both depression and alcohol dependence. It is well known that patients with depression may indulge in alcohol consumption that in turn may lead to dependence. Me...
Coping with Parental Mental Illness – An Everyday Battle
Mental illness is referred to as a condition that tends to impact a person's thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis. Many children may grow up with a...
Seventy five years of electroconvulsive therapy : a look back and the future ahead
Electroconvulsive therapy has been in existence for last 75 years. Although newer pharmacological agents have been introduced during this period, ECT has continued to enjoy special status in management of certain psychia...
A study of the relationship between the attitudes towards pornography and women amongst urban males
Background: In all settings across India, it has been noted that men view pornography off and on while some even do so on a daily basis. The study was aimed to evaluate the attitudes of men towards pornography and women...
The Kiki-Bouba paradigm : where senses meet and greet
Humans have the ability to think in abstract ways. Experiments over the last 90 years have shown that stimuli from the external world can be evaluated on an abstract spectrum with ‘Kiki’ on one end and ‘Bouba’ on the oth...