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University of Peradeniya | UOP · Department of Psychology

Child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect are significant problems that are experienced universally regardless of culture, ethnicity, and social class. Similarly, drug addiction is also identified as a problem, globally. Previous research documents the relationship between the experiences of abuse in childhood with addiction later in life. Thus, the c...

Music is a lot like literature that can be pleasing, enlightening, and changing the inner sense of life and is a compass helping us identify valuables categories in a wide area. Alternative rock that includes elements of punk, folk music, and heavy metal is a broad category of music that is usually thought of as somewhat out of the mainstream. In S...

Psychosocial wellbeing is essential for children's survival and development. Children's homes provide temporary care to children until they can return to their families or a long-term alternative living arrangement is achieved. The number of children entering the children's homes is increasing rapidly. They have to face lots of challenges in their...

This research examines parenting styles of adolescents' parents in Kandy District, Sri Lanka to understand the various individual and cultural factors that shape parenting practices in this context. Based on surveys with 120 participants as well as in-depth interviews with 16 of the initial participants, the study highlights four main themes and su...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a relatively new concept that has gained attention in recent decades. Daniel Goleman, a prominent figure in this field, proposed a model of EI comprising four key categories: perceiving one's own emotions, regulating one's own emotions, understanding others' emotions, and utilizing one's own emotions effectively. This...

Spirituality is a psychological construct with no universally accepted definition. According to existing literature, spirituality is identified in relation to both religious and secular practices. However, most experts in the field discuss spirituality in relation to religiosity. As a result of this consensus, different types of spiritualities base...

Family support plays a huge role in the mental health of gay men, particularly in societies where traditional norms and stigmatization are prevalent. In Sri Lanka, cultural resistance to diverse sexual identities increases mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and social isolation. Previous research indicates that family acceptan...

Regardless of country, nationality, or social class, child sexual abuse is an alarming problem that affects everyone. Young children are more likely to experience sexual abuse than children of any other age group because they lack the awareness of danger and the ability to defend themselves. Programs to raise young children's awareness of child sex...

Purpose of the study: This study mainly aimed to identify the relationship between: (1) disability and depression; and (2) depression and its relations to age, gender, walking ability, self-care dependence, leisure activities, regular exercises, facilitated environment, satisfied peer relationships, and verbal abuse among children with physical dis...

Child sexual abuse is a significant problem that is experienced universally regardless of culture, ethnicity, and social class. Among all age groups of children, young children are at greater risk of being victims of sexual abuse because of their lack of knowledge of danger and self-protection. Previous studies worldwide have used child sexual abus...

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The significance of family structure on the well-being of family members is a major concept to be discussed in contemporary society. There is an impact on the overall well-being of the families due to the lack of major relationships. Hence, the major consequences that lead to the sole responsibility of children to mothers differ among locality, cul...

Technology has become an essential part of human life and it has significantly changed the behaviors of individuals. One of the popular applications of technology is the smartphone and it has an inseparable relationship with modern teenagers. With the improvement of technology, many teenagers use their mobile phones for playing games. Teenagers use...

Unhealthy dietary habits are among the major risk factors for chronic diseases, particularly if adopted during the early years of adulthood. They are becoming more frequent due to the nutritional transition that is affecting populations across developing countries where traditional healthy diets are being progressively replaced by more westernized...

Adolescence is a test of new and different behaviors and part of the natural process of separating from parents, gaining acceptance and popularity with peers, developing a sense of identity, autonomy, independence, and maturity, seeking fun and adventure, and or rebelling against authority. Hence, according to the view of some adolescents, engaging...

School counseling is a learning process. It facilitates student achievement and improves student behavior and attendance and helps students develop socially. There are diverse attitudes about school counseling in students. The main objectives of this research were to identify student's attitudes about school counseling and the type of attitudes whi...

This research adopted the qualitative research methodology to study teachers' ability to identify students with learning difficulties. The study was conducted in the Udawalawa region of the Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka and it provided teachers with a tool to help identify pupils with learning difficulties and facilitate their learning using adap...

In the educational field, teaching styles are one of the most important aspects because student's knowledge, skills, and attitudes are dependent on it. Suitable teaching styles differ from subject to subject. Hence, we should find out the most suitable teaching styles for each subject. Mathematics is considered one of the most difficult subjects am...

Research studies had empirically shown that school systems affect the students" academic performance. This study aims to examine girls" academic performance in single sex versus coeducational schools and find out the best schooling system which enhances school girls" academic performance in Sri Lanka. The study used a qualitative research design. O...

The present study explored preschool children‟s occupational expectations and it‟s relation to their perception of gender typed occupations. Occupations can be ideally divided in to two, male and female dominant. Literatures convey that while men are employed in executive, administrative and managerial level, women are employed in very stereotypica...

A controversial type of profession undertaken by women is sex work or prostitution, always subjected to regulation by law or convention. Sex workers are often stigmatized, marginalized, and criminalized by the societies in which they live. The profession of sex work may impact on the psychological wellbeing of the workers. This study aims to explor...

The prime factor of wrongful convictions in global criminal justice systems is mostly due to evidence provided by eyewitness misidentifications. Among a wide array of causes for this fallibility in memory, schema-driven false memory gains a crucial role. A host of applied cognitive psychology researches have uncovered that a series of characteristi...

Ethnic identity or ethnicity is an aspect of both personal identity and social identity and is the degree to which individuals embrace the aspect of culture, behavior and values of their own ethnic group. At the personal level ethnic identity development is often related to psychological wellbeing, self evaluation and self esteem of the individual....

The authors examined whether college students' race was related to the modal race of their identified career role models, the number of identified career role models, and their perceived influence from such models. Consistent with A. Bandura's (1977, 1986) social learning theory, students tended to have role models whose race was the same as their...

The main purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional and material independence and interdependence is related to sex, socio-economic status (SES) and population density (PD). The study also explored whether sex, SES and PD moderate emotional independence and college adjustment. A background information sheet was utilized to identify demo...