The present study investigated the impact of various personal and organisational characteristics on organisational commitment of employees working at different hierarchical levels. Age, length of service and locus of control of employees were studied as the personal characteristics, whereas...

This study examined the influence of acculturation strategies (integration and marginalisation) and personality variables of big five trials on acculturative stress among a convenience sample of 76 first generation adults who immigrated to Mauritius after transnational marriages. Response to a...

The present study investigated the prevalence of lifestyle related concerns among school adolescents. The data were collected from 1,500 Indian school students enrolled in sixth to eleventh grades drawn from rural, urban, and metro settings. They completed an anonymous Adolescent Lifestyle...

A silent discourse pervades psychology regarding how its theories are framed. This framing process needs to be brought more to the fore to challenge the traditional frames in Western psychology and to explore frames drawn more from Eastern traditions. Two primordial archetypal symbols, yin/yang...

Caste persists as an important socio-psychological phenomenon in many spheres of Indian social life and particularly within village contexts. It is argued that socio-psychological insights into caste identity and caste-based stigma may complement ongoing sociological and anthropological research...

Zambia’s national policy on the formal education of children with special educational needs (CSEN) began to evolve following the completion of a nation-wide campaign to reach disabled children (ZNCRDC), which was spurred by the UN declaration of 1981 as the International Year of Disabled...

This article presents findings of two studies that investigated coping with physical disability within the multivariate transactional model of stress. In the first study, 30 persons with locomotor disability were interviewed to explore the nature of stressors and coping strategies. In the second...

This text of the Sinha Memorial Lecture highlights the contribution of late Professor Durganand Sinha in promoting psychology of Indian origin. Acknowledging the academic support he received from Prof. Sinha, the author has traced his own journey and struggle in building up Indian psychology....

Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) has grown and evolved over the last three decades, from being a service delivery approach for persons with disabilities living in rural areas in developing countries, to a world-wide accepted strategy and movement, based on inclusive community development...

This study examines (i) whether productive use of compensation money, participation, support and self-efficacy facilitate the rehabilitation of the displaced and (ii) whether self-efficacy mediate between the rehabilitation of the displaced and the productive use of compensation, participation...