Waheeda Khan

Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University · Clinical Psychology Faculty of Behavioural Sciences

Being a member of the military offers unique opportunities and posits challenges to the serving members. The ripple effects of the same can be observed in military families as well. While researchers have explored the challenges faced by them, their coping mechanisms need to be studied as well. The present study aims at exploring life satisfaction,...

Armed conflict in Kashmiri has negatively impacted all inhabitants of the valley, but most serious effects are seen on children. Conflict has filled the tender hearts of children with anger and frustration, and they have lost their peace of mind. Health, which is mostly valuable for a child, is crippled by armed conflict, and children suffer from p...

Delayed encounters with stress are identified with poor individual well-being and related to significant monetary expenses for the general public. Accordingly, the advancement of cost-effective stress prevention or stress management tactics has turned into a vital attempt at recent research endeavors. Music has been appeared to influence physiologi...

Internet is a medium of expression for everyone now a days as it is accessible, affordable and anonymous for everyone in the world. Sexual arousal can be derived from a myriad of sources, ranging from titillating visuals, in video, pictorial and audio formats, erotic books, magazines and literature, to voyeuristically viewing other people engaging...

Both parenting and peer relationship are essential in the formation of self-esteem among the adolescents which lead to overall psychological development. Life satisfaction is another outcome that describes the subjective well-being of any person and the quality of one’s life. Literature has already suggested the importance of parenting and peer rel...

During the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, physical activity (PA) behaviors were altered worldwide due to public health measures such as “lockdown.” This study described PA among adults residing in 11 countries during COVID-19 lockdown and examined factors associated with PA engagement. We conducted a cross-sectional anonymous survey among a...

Despite the global impact of COVID-19, studies comparing the effects of COVID-19 on population mental health across countries are sparse. This study aimed to compare anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown among adults from 11 countries and to examine their associations with country-level COVID-19 factors and personal COVID-19...

Despite the global impact of COVID-19, studies comparing the effects of COVID-19 on population mental health across countries are sparse. This study aimed to compare anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown among adults from 11 countries and to examine their associations with country-level COVID-19 factors and personal COVID-19...

Introduction: “Hyperactivity”, is characterised by difficulties related to task, oriented behaviour in children particularly hyperactive children also tends to be socially intrusive and immature. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children have great difficulty in compatibility with their parents and their peer group. This disorder occ...

Background: During the current COVID-19 pandemic as part of various control measures quarantine-isolation facilities have been setup throughout India. To the best of our knowledge no study has been done so far on the mental health aspects of the inmates from Kashmir region.Methods: This was a questionnaire based qualitative cross sectional pilot st...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is found to be the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Currently, the Myocardial Infarction (MI) or stroke incidence in India is much higher than western industrialized countries. One of the factors associated with an increased riskof MI are chronic hassles at workplace, financial setbacksand persistentanxietythat agg...

Techniques of behavior modification were employed to address the target behavior of functional excessive coughing–psychogenic cough in a 12-y-old boy referred by a pediatrician who found no identifiable medical reasons. To identify the purpose that maintains the behavior, functional behavior assessment was carried out and in order to reduce the fre...

Background: It is well established that caregivers of children with developmental disabilities experience greater stress than caregivers of children without developmental disabilities. However, the experience of stress is dependent on the types of coping strategies that are used to manage stress. Such stress also affects the quality of life (QoL) o...

Prevalence of mental disorders among children is affected by armed conflict and same is true in protracted conflict of Kashmir, where the ongoing conflict has affected mental health of children badly. In order to understand mental health condition of school going children, the present study was designed to study the nature and prevalence of mental...

Background: Anger expression refers to the manner in which an individual expressed her/his emotional experience of anger (which may include anger-in, anger-out, or anger-constant). Anger-out is the tendency to express one’s anger outwardly as negative manner which may involve the use of aggressive actions. Anger-in refers to the extent to which ind...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is found to be the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Currently, the Angina pectoris (AP) incidence in India is much higher than Western industrialized countries. One of the factors associated with an increased risk of AP are chronic every day hassles and persistent anxiety that aggravate incident of CHD and cardiac...

Post traumatic growth (PTG) emphasizes the importance of positive transformation following a traumatic event. The present study examines gender differences and the role of PTG in predicting Life Satisfaction (LS) following spousal bereavement. For this, bereaved participants (N=60) completed measures of posttraumatic growth and life satisfaction. C...

Kashmir has a long history of conflict and violence where the youth have been on the forefront of political and social transformations. Research on mapping political identity, ideology, attitudes, and opinions of young Kashmiris over the years has remained within a quantitative-based framework that leaves out individual- and identity-based differen...

Crime has always been considered as negative aspect of human behavior. Many studies described criminal behavior as associated with personality pattern and mental health. Most of the studies have been based on finding out what should be changed, so that the criminal would get an improved mental health status (World Health Organization, 2005; Fazel,...

This research endeavors to explore meaning in life ofbreast cancer survivors in Indiausing narrative analysis. The participants were interviewed to obtain aholistic view of their experiences in their own words. Interview data were analyzed using Narrative Analysis. The narratives indicated that the participant’s journey started with their attitude...

Research on the contact hypothesis has highlighted the role of contact in improving intergroup relations. Most of this research has addressed the problem of transforming the prejudices of historically advantaged communities, thereby eroding wider patterns of discrimination and inequality. In the present research, drawing on evidence from a cross-se...

Objective: The present research was conducted to assess whether doctors of private and public sector hospitals would differ in organizational conflict types after controlling gender.Material and Method: The sample comprised of 178 doctors employed in private and public sector hospitals among which 84 were from private hospitals and 94 were from pub...

Adolescence is a period of rapid psychosocial maturation which may be challenging and evoke maladaptive behaviours, but it also presents opportunities for considerable positive growth and developmental achievements (Erickson, 1963). Well-being is a positive psychological variable which is very well connected to forgiveness. Researchers have also sh...

Background: Researches in the recent years have consistently shown that parents of children with autism experience greater stress than parents of children without autism. There has been enormous understanding into the various challenges that these parents face. However, till date there have been no reported studies on gender differences in stress f...

The present retrospective study investigates the influence of positive and negative affects among Heart disease patients in the capital of India. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) was administered on the heart patients (Myocardial infarction and Angina pectoris) and Control group (Disease free) (N=120). Results indicated significant...

A correlational study was conducted to investigate the relationship of Big five personality traits with conflict management styles of obliging, integrating, avoiding, compromising and dominating in men (n = 96)and women (n = 38) bank officers with age range of 22 to 58 years. It was hypothesized that there would be a relationship between five perso...

Abstract: Sites of political conflicts are marked by a high degree of militarization as seen in the Kashmir Valley. The militaristic nature of such conflicts results in the representation of women in specific roles of ‘victims’ that are part of the dominant masculine narrative.We begin by examining a theory of militarism and conflict that explores...

Gratitude is held in high esteem by virtually in every society. From ancient religious scriptures through modern social science research, gratitude is viewed as a desirable human characteristic with the capacity for making life better for oneself and for others. Gratitude as an action may be in response to something either material (e.g., gift) or...

Deviant behaviors have far reaching effect on the individual and at the organizational level. In spite of clear ethical guidelines, employees indulge in deviant activities. Dispositional variables have been linked with deviant behavior and are also influenced by individual motivation; hence personality and motivational traits were considered. The p...

From the early centuries, Adolescence is mentioned as a period of challenges and opportunities for understanding oneself within the social context. A well-known note from more than 100 years ago describing adolescence as storm and stress), is still addressed by psychologists. Adolescence is typically divided into three periods: early adolescence (a...

Background: There are known limitations in functioning of children with developmental disabilities which result in requirements for long term care far exceeding the usual needs of children as they develop, or the expectations of their families as a parent. Thus, while caregiving is a normal part of being a parent, providing the high level of care r...

Aim: The aim of the present research was to study the impact of hypnotherapy as treatment intervention in overcoming examination anxiety and improving scholastic achievement. Method: A 10 item anxiety test developed by Nist and Diehl (1990) was administered on 10 school children of 13 and 14 years of age. Following pre and post test design, anxiety...

When violence is prolonged, it becomes part of life. Kashmir – once known as a ‘Paradise on earth’– now symbolizes a conglomerate of human errors that have spewed more than a decade of violence, eroding the ethos of a state known for its peace-loving, artistic and intellectual populace. This chapter traces the erosion of a community by understandin...

We introduce a new construct called Context Differentiation (CD), and describe how it functions on both the individual and cultural levels. We derive several measures of it from a multi-context measure of cultural display rules for emotional expressions obtained from 33 countries, and examine country and cultural differences on it, and relate those...

Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emotional expression, and despite the fact that it has been over 30 years since this concept was coined (Ekman & Friesen, 1969), there is yet to be a study that surveys display rules across a wide range of cultures. This article reports such a stud...

This article reports differences across 23 countries on 2 processes of emotion regulation-reappraisal and suppression. Cultural dimensions were correlated with country means on both and the relationship between them. Cultures that emphasized the maintenance of social order-that is, those that were long-term oriented and valued embeddedness and hier...