This study examined perceptions of adolescents regarding their parents’ behaviours such as guidance, punitiveness, monitoring and autonomy granting, and their influence on the development of adolescent self-esteem in Kenya. A standardized research instrument was used to gather data from a sample of 630 Kenyan high school students that ranged in age from 15 to 18 years and had a mean age of 16.3 years. The gender of these participants comprised of 35.7% males and 64.3% females. Standardized regression coefficients revealed that paternal guidance (ÿ = .204; p< .0001) was a stronger positive predictor of adolescents’ self-esteem compared to maternal guidance (ÿ =.164; p < .001). On the contrary maternal punitiveness (ÿ = -184; p<.01) was a stronger negative predictor of adolescent self-esteem than that of paternal punitiveness (ÿ = -124; p < .01). However, paternal monitoring (ÿ = 0.87; p> .05) and maternal monitoring (ÿ = 0.61; p> .05) were not significant predictors of Kenyan adolescents’ self-esteem. Furthermore results revealed that paternal autonomy granting (ÿ = -020; p >.05) was a negative, but insignificant predictor of Kenyan adolescents’ self-esteem, while the maternal autonomy granting (ÿ = 0.009; p> .05) had a positive but insignificant effect on adolescent self-esteem. The findings of this study may be useful for family life educators and family practitioners as they develop training materials on culturally relevant determinants of positive adolescent developmental outcomes.

Adolescence is a transitional period in the human life span linking childhood and adulthood. It is a period that marks the departure of a child from childhood to adulthood. As a developmental period, adolescence is a “stop-gap moment” whereby the adolescents undergo changes in their physical, cognitive and social-emotional development for proper adjustment. As such they are expected to weather the stormy and stressful condition of adolescence. The 21st century Nigerian adolescents are not immured to the turbulent and conflicting nature of the adolescence period occasioned by unemployment, uncertainty and gross neglect by significant others. They are daily being assailed and influenced by activities of peer group, the mass media, internet and more recently the social media. Unfortunately, these young people are segregated from the adult society and such segregation serves as an important contribution to deviant behaviours such as cybercrimes, suicide bombing, militancy, political thuggery, school bullying, kidnapping, illegal migration and human trafficking. The process of learning new experiences, examining resources of inner strength and fathom the strength of inner ability should have career guidance input. As young stars who have recently transited from childhood, the adolescents lack the ability to bring their powers to bear most effectively on the solution of the problems meaningful to them; therefore, they need expert guidance if they are to experience a successful adolescence. To this end, proper career guidance should be embarked upon to assuage the 21st century Nigerian adolescents increased concern for the future by assisting them to determine and prepare for career and entrance into the job market. What adolescents need is access to a range of legitimate opportunities and to long-term support from career guardians that deeply care about them. This is a necessary condition that will ensure youth disengagement from illegitimate activities such as cybercrime

In this article, the occurrence, diagnosis, varieties, and prevalence of dementia in the world are discussed in the context of international literature. Dementia is not the name of a single disease but is the common name given to all diseases that lead to impaired memory and similar mental abilities. All of these diseases cause a number of changes in the brain, revealing specific findings of the disease. Dementia diseases are not an expected and absolute condition of the aging brain. Alzheimer's disease accounts for more than 60% of all dementia. 'Vascular dementia', which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common type of dementia. Some of the diseases diagnosed as dementia are diseases that have no definite cure and make it impossible to return to the old state (such as Alzheimer's), while others are diseases that can be cured by treatment. There is no definitive way to prevent dementia, but some changes in living standards can delay the onset of dementia or slow its progression. If you have any doubts about dementia, don't forget to check up.

In the present day world visually impaired children has become matter of discussion in the society. It is because of the fact that visually impaired children nowadays feel insecure in the present social system and consequently they feel stress due to lack of social and emotional support from their family and society as well which leads to depression among visually impaired children. Therefore, the present enquiry was aimed at studying the depression among Visually Impaired (experimental group) and Non – Visually Impaired (control group) secondary school students. Total sample one hundred twenty (N=120) were selected using purposive sampling technique from different secondary schools of Mithila region of North Bihar, covering the districts, viz., Darbhanga, Madhubani and Samastipur. Sample comprises visually impaired students (n=60) as experimental group and non – visually impaired students (n=60) as control group. Experimental group was further divided into male (n=38) and female (n=22). Total subjects’ age were ranged between 11 – 14 years. Data were collected through Hindi Version Beck Depression Inventory along with biographical information blank. After collecting the data, individual scores were summed up as per norms of the inventory for giving statistical treatment. Obtained results clearly revealed the fact that there has been a highly significant difference between male visually impaired and female visually impaired students, although, both the group of students had shown moderate level of depression as per the norms of inventory. When total sample of visually impaired students were compared statistically with the control group, significant difference had also been found, although, experimental group were found to have moderate level of depression as compared with the control group for which they have indicated mild mood disturbances only as per the inventory of the norms. Finally, discrepancies of the obtained results have been discussed in detail by giving

The present study was aimed at studying occupational stress and the job satisfaction among male and female teachers working in +2 private schools with particular reference to North Bihar, India. It is undoubtedly fact that in recent years our government, educator’s organizations and other groups have sought to improve the public image of the teaching occupation so as to attract more people in to the occupation. Hence, the present piece of research work is of immense value on the problem cited above. For the present investigation, total sample consisted of one hundred eighty (N=180) comprising male (n=90) and female (n=90) teachers working in +2 Private Schools were randomly selected from different private schools of North Bihar. The districts viz., Darbhanga, Madhubani and Samastipur were given priority for collecting the data. Data were collected through questionnaire schedules on the sample. Having obtained the data on the items of the schedules, individual scores were summed up and tabulated according to procedure of the scales for giving statistical treatment. Results revealed the fact that there is a significant difference between male and female teachers working in +2 private Schools of North Bihar in their degree of perceived reactions on job satisfaction as t-value has been found statistically significant at .05but all the teachers reported more or less moderate level of Job Satisfaction. On the other hand, no significant difference has beet found between the groups of males and females in terms of their degree of occupational stress, although few dimensions of occupational stress viz., role overload, role ambiguity, responsibility for persons and strenuous working conditions have been found as the predictors between male and female teachers although both the group have indicated moderate level of stress. It is interesting to note that female group of teachers were found more satisfied with their work in +2 private schools than male teachers comparatively.

Life satisfaction as cognitive process by which an individual assesses his/her progress towards desired goals. Various researches on the phenomenon have been carried out in relation to different psycho – social aspects but researchers have not paid attention on Muslim aged men and women with particular reference to New Delhi. Thus, the present study was planned to study on such problem. For the present study, on one hundred eighty (N=180) aged comprising men (n=90) and women (n=90) were randomly selected. All subjects included in the sample were contacted personally from different area of locality of New Delhi. Major areas of New Delhi were given priority for the present piece of research work namely, Okhla, Zakir Nagar, Batla house, Shaheen Bagh, Ghafoor Nagar, Abul Fazal Enclave, and Malviya Nagar. All subjects’ age were recorded near about 60 and above 60 years. Data were collected through questionnaire schedules then thereafter individual scores were summed up according to its procedure for giving statistical treatment. Results revealed the clear cut picture regarding the problems that perceived life satisfaction for both the group of Muslim aged men and women. It is important to note that significance of difference has also been found in terms of their perceived life satisfaction between the group of Muslim aged men and women, although, both the group have shown favorable inclination towards the degree of perceived reactions of life satisfaction. Moreover, results also revealed the fact that Muslim aged men were found more prone to the degree of their perceived life satisfaction than their female counterpart especially from where the sample has been drawn to undertake the present piece of research work. Finally, the discrepancy of obtained results has been discussed in the light of exigency of situations prevailing in New Delhi.

Organizational commitment is an important aspect of organizational psychology that can be applied as an aid to achieve higher level of performance and to develop and maintain discipline in an organization especially in educational institutions. Therefore, research interest in the area of organizational commitment has grown considerably. It is often observed that in many job situations, particularly in human services organizational commitment may have causative influence towards organizational change. Therefore, the present investigation is aimed at studying the organizational commitment towards organizational change. The sample of the present study was drawn from different departments of L. N. Mithila University, India and its constituent colleges. The sample consisted of one hundred fifty (N= l50) employees comprising teaching (n=75) and non – teaching (n =75) which were selected by applying random sampling technique. Total subjects’ age were ranged between 29 – 63 years. Data were collected through questionnaire schedules. Having obtained the data on each item of the scales, individual scores were summed up according to procedures for giving statistical treatment. Results indicated significant difference between the groups of teaching and non – teaching employees in terms of their degree of organizational commitment and in its dimensions towards organizational change, although, both the groups had shown positive inclination towards organizational change. It is interesting to point out here that teaching group was found to have more commitment towards organizational change than their non – teaching counterparts comparatively. Finally obtained results were discussed in detail by highlighting the probable reasons.