Peer victimization includes being bullied and experiences of being the target of physical, social, emotional, or psychological harm from a peer. Personal growth initiative is an individual’s will to change, develop and evolve as a person. Perceived social support refers to how an individual perceives the support or the encouragement that he gets from his/her society, friends and others. Thus, the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between Peer victimization, Personal growth initiative (PGI) and Perceived social support among adolescents. The population for this study consisted of 100 participants, males and females both between the age range of 13-19 years. The statistical analysis used was Pearson’s product moment correlation. The findings revealed significant negative relationship between Peer Victimization and Personal Growth Initiative (r= -0.31, p< 0.01) and a significant positive relationship between Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support (r= 0.50, p< 0.01).However, no significant relationship was found between Peer Victimization and Perceived Social Support. (r= -0.18, n.s).
Introduction: Sports has been an integral part of all the cultures including the Indian culture. India has been developing rapidly when it comes to the sports participation and representation at the world level. Thus it has become apparent to find out the factors that promote sports participation, improve sports performance and maintain the performance further. This study tries to focus on such variables that might be the key to improving sports performance in the elite level college going athletes. The study investigates three variables Athletic Identity, Sports Motivation and Dispositional Optimism. Methodology: The data was collected using the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) for Athletic Identity, Sports Motivation Scale-28(SMS-28) for Sports Motivation factor and Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) for Dispositional Optimism. The data was collected from the population of 100 college going elite level athletes through purposive sampling method. The population consisted of athletes participating in various individual sports at the state, national and international level. It was a co-relational study trying to find out whether there exists a relationship between the three variables. Results: Results displayed a very poor and non-significant correlation between three levels of Athletic Identity and Dispositional Optimism (Exclusivity and Dispositional Optimism r = 0.081); Social Identity and Dispositional Optimism (r = -0.064) and Negative Affectivity and Dispositional Optimism (r = 0.129) and the R-Square value was found to be non-significant. Conclusions: It can be concluded from this study that there exists no significant relationship between Dispositional Optimism and Athletic Identity or Sports Motivation and Athletic Identity. Thus there is a need to explore further into other factors promoting sports participation. .
Peer victimization includes being bullied and experiences of being the target of physical, social, emotional, or psychological harm from a peer. Personal growth initiative is an individual’s will to change, develop and evolve as a person. Perceived social support refers to how an individual perceives the support or the encouragement that he gets from his/her society, friends and others. Thus, the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between Peer victimization, Personal growth initiative (PGI) and Perceived social support among adolescents. The population for this study consisted of 100 participants, males and females both between the age range of 13-19 years. The statistical analysis used was Pearson’s product moment correlation. The findings revealed significant negative relationship between Peer Victimization and Personal Growth Initiative (r= -0.31, p< 0.01) and a significant positive relationship between Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support (r= 0.50, p< 0.01).However, no significant relationship was found between Peer Victimization and Perceived Social Support. (r= -0.18, n.s).
Sexting is an indicator of sexual conduct. The prevalence of sexting is increasing with every passing day. However, there appears to be minimal literature in existence for a rather popular concept among the youth in present times. This study aims to learn about the gender differences in sexting behaviours along with the dominance of the same in dating and non-dating young adults. It also identifies the prospective repercussions associated with sexting, consensual or otherwise. The study involved 200 working and non-working, heterosexual male and female participants between the age of 18 and 30 years. A survey including Sexual Behaviour Scale, Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, and Social Motivation Questionnaire was administered. Results showed that there exists a significant positive correlation between sexting behaviour and rejection sensitivity. Conversely, there is no correlation between sexting behaviour and social motivation. In addition to this, there exists a significant difference in sexting behaviours between the genders, although, there is no significant difference in sexting behaviours on the grounds of relationship status. Therefore, it is observed that higher the sexting behaviour, higher is the rejection sensitivity. Moreover, there is also a fluctuation in sexting behaviour with a difference in gender but no difference in sexting behaviours with variations in relationship status.
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