Veena Easvaradoss

Women's Christian College · Psychology

In the recent past, sports scientists believe that both mental and physical skills are necessary to reach peak performance in sports. Since then several studies have been done to understand the various psychological attributes determining the athletes` success. This study focus on identifying different psychological strategies that the athletes use...

Creativity is the tendency to create or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems. It is the ability to produce work that is both novel (i.e., original, unexpected) and appropriate (i.e., adaptive concerning task constraints). This study analyzed the effect of 2-year chess training program on the creativ...

In the recent past, successful athletes often report use of performance strategies such as visualization, emotional control, self-talk and so on. However, In India, the extent to which performance strategies used during practice and competition is not reported. The aim of this study is to find out the prevalence of various performance strategies us...

MALLEABILITY OF WORKING MEMORY THROUGH CHESS TRAINING IN SCHOOL CHILDREN Ebenezer Joseph1, Veena Easvaradoss2, T. Edwin Prabhakaran3, & Sweta Jain4 1Cognitive Science Research Initiative, Government of India; P&T Audit Office (India) 2Department of Psychology, Women’s Christian College (India) 3Department of Statistics, Loyola College (India) 4Depa...

Introduction: Self-esteem and self-compassion are widely researched concepts related to positive life outcomes and self-perception, and has superior mental health benefits. Objectives: The study evaluates the relationship between self-compassion and self-esteem, and their influence as predictors of life satisfaction and perceived stress among adult...

The present study investigates the practice of yoga nidra meditation as an effective strategy for addressing the perceived stress and self regulation of teacher trainees. In this study, purposive sampling was used and the sample was drawn from two Colleges of Education in Chengalpet and Chennai. The sample consisted of 70 women students of whom 35...

Processing speed is one of the measures of cognitive efficiency. It refers to the ability to automatically and fluently execute relatively easy or overlearned cognitive tasks, especially when high mental efficiency is required. Contemporary research has shown that the speed of information processing is dynamically associated with mental capacity, r...

Maslow contended that different needs are associated with different values. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to identify the values that are correlated with each of the needs in Maslow’s hierarchy using an Indian sample of young adults. The Deficiency-Need Preoccupation Checklist, a measure of preoccupation with each of the deficie...

Scholars and laypersons conceptualize the good life similarly; however, good life conceptualizations vary systematically across different groups of people. The objective of the present study, therefore, was to qualitatively explore developmental trends in Indians’ conceptualizations of the good life. Adolescents, young adults, and adults responded...

The literature on identity development has grown tremendously in recent years; nevertheless, there has been an ongoing debate with respect to the domains that are considered to be relevant to the study of identity, especially in non-Euro-American cultures. The present study, therefore, was an attempt to explore and identify the domains that young I...

Systematic training of chess has been shown to significantly increase the IQ and cognitive functioning among children. The study assessed the impact of chess intervention on the IQ scores of children and analyzed the cognitive functions that contributed to the IQ gain. Eighty-six school children, boys and girls in the age group (4-15) undergoing ch...

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of chess training on academic performance of middle school children in rural India. The impact of chess on various academic courses was examined. The sample consisted of 100 students of sixth grade with an intervention group undergoing chess training and a control group. Statistical tests were c...

Developmental Disorders interrupt normal development in childhood and involve significant handicaps, with onset before 18 years, which affect adaptive, self-help, cognitive and/or social skills. One of the most commonly occurring developmental disorders in normal school going children in India is Specific Learning Disability (3 % to 10%, Arun et al...