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WhatsApp as a social media platform continues to increase in popularity and constitutes a fundamental part of online discussions where user-generated content, often on topical issues, is shared and discussed by members of specific virtual communities. This study aimed to investigate the use of humour in discourses relating to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) carried out on various WhatsApp groups as a coping mechanism to the impending threats and dangers posed by the confirmation of covid-19 cases in Kenya. Twenty five memes were collected from five WhatsApp groups populated by 921 participants majorly between the ages of 30 - 50 years between 13th March 2020 and 1st April 2020. These included: 1 professional group, 1 former high school students’ group, 1 former college students’ group, 1 county political forum and 1 religious group to which the authors belonged. The meme contents were subjected to Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis with a view to examining how the Kenyan public responded to the presence of the disease through the use of humour and deconstructing the semantic implications inherent in them. It emerged that humour on the COVID-19 pandemic transcended the domestic, educational, political, professional, religious, sexual and social domains of human existence. The study concluded that in the face of life-threatening calamities, people tended to resort to humour in order to evoke positive feelings and laughter by sharing funny content on the social media platforms. Laughter being a universal language and one of our first communication methods and considering the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is still on-going, the findings of this study should therefore expand on the scholarly discourse on the potential psychological impact of humour in life-threatening situations and to inform pre-and-post-trauma counseling therapy sessions

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In the present COVID – 19 pandemic most of the people not only in India but throughout the world are afraid especially those who are feeders of their family, hence, the present study is aimed at studying the extent of mental health among teaching and non-teaching employees working in Veer Kunwar Singh University (VKSU), Ara during COVID – 19 outbreaks. As it is generally observed that teaching and non-teaching staffs differs to each other in respect of their personal and institutional values, other related opportunities and problems, therefore, the present investigation is planned to make a comparative study of mental health among teaching and non-teaching employees working in VKSU, Ara, Bihar. The sample of the present investigation consisted of one hundred ten (N = 110) employees comprising teaching (n=55) and non-teaching (n=55) which were randomly selected from different departments of VKSU and its constituent colleges located at in and around Ara. A standardized mental health inventory was administered individually on the sample by contacting on mobile and social media during COVID outbreaks. This inventory also consists of 56 items covering 6 dimensions such as self- evolution, perception of reality, integration of personality, autonomy and stability, growth oriented attitude and environmental mastery. In this inventory high score indicates good mental health. Results revealed significant difference between means of two groups of teaching and non-teaching employees as t value was found statistically significant at .01 level of confidence although, teaching employees has been found to have better mental health as compared to non-teaching employees during COVID – 19 pandemic. Finally, such discrepancy of results has been discussed in detail by giving probable reasons

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The present study was undertaken to see the significance of difference between teaching and non – teaching employees in terms of their extent of Perceived Quality of Work Life during novel COVID – 19 outbreaks who are employed in different departments of L. N. Mithila University and its Constituent colleges located in Darbhanga, India. For this investigation, one hundred forty employees (N=140) comprising teaching (n=70) and non - teaching (n=70) were randomly selected by using mobile, WhatsApp, Google mail and other social media website. Having collected the data online through questionnaire schedules, the data were given statistical treatment, which indicated that there is significant difference between teaching and non – teaching employees working in different University Departments of L. N. Mithila University, Darbhanga and its constituent colleges, although both the group have indicated favorable inclination towards their Quality of Work Life. It is important to mention here that non – teaching employees didn’t show any sign of higher degree of life satisfaction in comparison to their teaching counterparts, although, teaching group of employees were found more prone to their degree of Perceived Quality of Work Life during novel COVID – 19 pandemic. Finally, discrepancies of obtained results have been discussed in the light of exigency of situations prevailing now throughout the worlds

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Background- Adolescence is a crucial period in human development. During this phase a person starts maturing. The shape of one’s personality gets crystallized during this phase and the environmental factor is an important contributor to this process. Individuals’ immediate environment is family where parental influence evidently plays a major role in his or her development. Besides the patterns of child rearing practices, individuals’ perception of relationship with their parents is worthy of research and it is a two-way procedure. Based on the premise of parental influence on adolescents the present study explored the difference between adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and normal healthy control with respect to parent- child relationship. Method and Material- Twenty subjects in each group were purposively selected for exploration. Based on certain parameters like age, gender, marital status, education and socioeconomic status of family, clinical subjects was screened by using Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. Those clients who met the criteria for borderline personality disorder were taken into the clinical group. The control group of healthy subjects was screened by using the Symptom Checklist 90. Following the screening procedure, the Parent-Child Relationship Scale (Rao, 1989) was administered individually. The clients responded across both domains of relationship with father and relationship with mother. Then the data were statistically analyzed by SPSS software. Result- Significant differences were found across several positive as well as negative dimensions

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Reading is the most important skill that you need to develop each child at school. Children who don’t have good reading skills at elementary level is more likely that in the future have limited education progress and limited economic opportunities and development. The aim of this study is to document performance of early grade student’s performance in the field of reading, in order to understand the learning and needs for improvements, through application of contemporary methods and patterns as need and necessity for enhancing the quality of education in general and school students in particular. In terms of the progress, improvement of teaching practice, as a methodology of this study, we have used the research in action. First of all, because through this the problem situations and the practical concerns of the teachers were solved and second of all, it was a good opportunity to change the teaching practice and then to present evidence showing in what way this practice has been improved. The research was conducted in five PLSS in Prizren, in the first, second and third grades, where 200 students were tested over two different time periods to see the impact of contemporary methods and patterns implemented during that period of time, which was implemented in coordination with school directors, teachers and parents of students involved in the research. Based on the results obtained from our conducted research analysis we conclude that our research hypotheses were verified, as during the second test the students gave positive results and this showed that the use of modern methods and patterns positively contributed to the improvement of reading skills to class I-III students. Our research also showed that teachers are willing to seek for more advanced practices that bring positive results to students. With the use of a variety of methods and strategies, as well as with the continuous parent-teacher-school collaboration, we have achieved positive changes in the success

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Self – concept is evident from self awareness, which refers to the extent to which self- knowledge is defined, consistent, and currently applicable to one’s attitudes and dispositions. Therefore, the present study was aimed at studying the self – concept among teachers working in Government and Missionary Schools with particular reference to North Bihar. To measure the differences between Government and Missionary Schools teachers in terms of their degree of perceived reactions on self – concept, total sample consisted of one hundred fifty (N=150) which were randomly selected from different Government and Missionary Schools located at North Bihar, viz., Begusarai, Darbhanga, Madhubani and Samastipur. These are well – known towns of North Bihar. Total sample comprises Government School teachers (n=75) and Missionary School teachers (n=75). Total respondents’ age were ranged between 31 to 58 years of age. Having collected the information on the problem through questionnaire schedule, the data were tabulated as per norms of the schedule for giving statistical treatment. Obtained results indicated significant differences in terms of teaching employees’ perceived reactions on self - concept between the group of Government School and Missionary school teachers from where the present sample has been drawn. It is important to mention here that the self- concept among Missionary school teachers was found significantly high in comparison to the perceived self – concept of Government school teachers. Moreover, out of six dimensions of self-concept four dimensions, viz., ‘Behavior’, ‘Physical Appearance and Attributes’, ‘Anxiety’, and ‘Happiness and Satisfaction’ have been found significant predictors between the group of Govt. school and Missionary School Teachers. Finally discrepancy of obtained results has been discussed in detail

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A stress is a situation of emotional and physical tension and people take proper coping strategies, i.e. actions to master, tolerate, reduce or minimise the effects of stressors. This can include problem focused (behavioural) and emotion focused (emotional) strategies. But it is not that people use either problem-focused strategies of emotion focused strategies; most people use both the forms of coping strategies to deal with the controllable stressful events (Eschenbeck et al;2008; Folkman & Lazarus;1980; Lazarus;1993; Stowell et al;2001). For example: gaining social support at the time of stresses. The lockdown situation of 2020 due to corona virus has led to excessive demand on emergency workers which have contributed to rising level of stress. The purpose of this study is to find the coping strategy used by the emergency workers to deal with stress in lockdown situation due to covid-19. Previous researches have focused on the coping strategies of emergency worker in everyday situation. But now Covid-19 has led to a novel situation. Where emergency workers are more vulnerable. The methodology used was semi-structured interview. It is a qualitative study as administration of these interviews was done on phone. Due to lockdown........