Ruth Angiel Padiri

Central University of Tamil Nadu · Department of Applied Psychology

Mood disorders like depression, bipolar disorder are some of the chronic mental health conditions. Depression is characterized by feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness and helplessness for a period of at least two weeks. Bipolar disorder is a condition characterized by unpredictable episodes of mania (excitement, irritability, aggressiveness) and...

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor deficits (tremors, stiffness, bradykinesia, and postural instability). Everyone's experience with Parkinson's disease is unique however, many people living with this disease suffer different challenges and problems. Informal caregivers play a major role in the lives o...

Background Diabetes is a global health issue and one of the top ten causes of mortality, requiring focused research for understanding and implementing appropriate methods of diabetes management. Among the many approaches to managing optimal glucose control, embarking on the factors that influence engaging in health behaviours, such as managing gluc...

The objectives of this study are to develop a self-report scale to measure social support, evaluate its core structure and study various psychometric properties in the development of this scale. The entire process of developing and validating the scale is described in three phases. These comprise item writing and content validation in Phase I, vali...

Background Self-care behaviours among diabetes patients is often hindered because of various psycho-social factors which become obstacles to their better diabetes management and its proper outcome. The current study aims to find out these psycho-social factors that influence the execution of self–care behaviours among Type II diabetes patients from...

The cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the relationship between the domains of perceived social support (PSS), perceived control of internal states (PCOIS) and well-being (WB) among police personnel. One hundred twenty two police officers (106 males and 16 females) from the state of Odisha, India were selected using purposive sampling metho...

Leisure is essential to leading a well‐balanced and holistic life. It revitalizes an individual by providing a feeling of relative freedom. Leisure activities have undergone significant changes from ancient times to the present day. The various types of leisure activities, such as relaxed leisure, transitional leisure, active and passive leisure, a...

This theoretical paper highlights how stories play a multi-faceted role developmental process of the child. Listening, reading and writing stories foster child’s perception, memory, thinking, language, intelligence, feelings and emotions. Piaget and Kohlberg have used stories to find out the aspects of moral development. Through stories the child a...

The original version of this article contained a mistake in Phase IV: establishing validity and development of norms under Participants section. The below text For establishing validity and norm of DMKT, data were gathered from 300 patients suffering with type 2 diabetes.

The cornerstone of diabetes management is self-management—a set of skilled behaviors to manage one’s own illness. Education for diabetes self-management is a vital component of overall management. Nevertheless, lack of knowledge concerning the various aspects of diabetes acts as one of the barriers to achieve optimal diabetes control. The objective...

Leisure activities give us the space, time and freedom to be ourselves. Research shows that these activities have a positive impact on life satisfaction and well-being. The objectives of the study were (a) to examine the differences in leisure motivation and well-being (b) to explore the relationship between leisure motivation and well-being (c) an...

This study examined the relationship between optimism and psychological well-being (PWB) among police officers. Sixty police officers, both male and female, between the age range of 26 to 57 years were categorized into two equal groups consisting of participants below 10 years of work experience (Group 1) and above 10 years of work experience (Grou...