Jitendra K Singh’s research while affiliated with Defence Research and Development Organisation and other places

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Publications (6)


Girishwar Misra • Indiwar Misra Editors Emotions in Cultural Context
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October 2024

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Jitendra K Singh

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Assessment of Individual Differences in India: Historical Roots, Current Status, and Future Directions

October 2021

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The study of individual differences, particularly its assessment, has immensely broadened the scope of psychology as a science as well as an applied enterprise. Its beginning can be noticed in the attempts to address institutional requirements during the first half of the twentieth century. The psychologists trained in British and American traditions pursued test development for the purposes of personnel selection, training, guidance, and counseling in educational, industrial, and military settings. The psychometric approach was extended to map personality traits, motives, aptitudes, values, interests, abilities, etc. Also, projective tests of personality were adapted and developed. Several institutions were entrusted with the task of test development for various settings. More recently, some private agencies and publication houses have also entered the arena of test development. The advent of data analysis software has further shaped the psychometric tradition. As there is no official agency to monitor the standardization of psychological tests, the quality of tests has become a major issue. In recent years, the scope of testing has broadened by the inclusion of indigenous constructs, modalities, domains, and analytic procedures. The challenge of human resource development and training in contemporary India requires innovative ways to respect international standards and address the issues of recognizing merit as well as social justice.


Colonization of personality psychology in India

August 2021

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Indian Journal of History of Science

The origin of present-day Euro-American personality psychology is rooted in the Western notion of individualism. It locates its history in post-industrial revolution of Europe and the post-enlightenment era of America. However, considerable evidences suggest that the study of personality, in terms of different typologies of mental and physical attributes of a person, constituted one of the core areas of enquiry in the ancient civilizations of the world namely India, Babylonia, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome. Such contributions of ancient civilizations hardly find intellectual space in epistemological terrain of Euro-American personality psychology. India, being one of the ancient civilizations, contributed significantly in this area. But, personality studies in the contemporary India largely subscribe to Euro-American conceptual and methodological frame�works. Against this backdrop, the paper tries to revisit the journey of personality psychology beginning with its inception in the rich intellectual traditions of ancient India vis-à-vis the other civilizations of that time, its debacle in medieval period and its colonization under the hegemonic policy of the Europeans and Americans in modern time. Continuing with the tradition of decolonization movement of psychological science, the paper, using critical theories perspective, tries to delve the way the British regime colonized personality psychology India. Taking insight from liberation psychology, the paper, finally, proposes some strategies to decolonize or rather indigenize personality psychology in India. Keywords Ancient civilizations · Colonization · Indigenous tradition · Religio-philosophical traditions · Replicative/ adaptive tradition


A Psycholexical Study of Personality Trait Structure of Hindi Speaking Indians

January 2021

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This study adopted a psycholexical approach to uncover the personality trait structure of Hindi speaking Indians. The endorsement for personality descriptive adjectives was obtained from young adults (n=240) using a Likert-type 5-point rating scale. The principal component analysis using varimax rotation revealed a six-factor structure comprised of (I) rajasic (passion and mobility), (II) sattvic (goodness and harmony), (III) tamasic (dullness and inertia), (IV) competence, (V) neuroticism, and (VI) extraversion. The six-factor structure of personality in Hindi language has broader psycholexical space than what is proposed in the "Big Five" personality theory.

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... In terms of personality, not only the IP based typologies align with the Western counterparts (Rao & Paranjpe, 2016) but assessment instruments like the Mysore Tridosha Scale and Mysore Triguṇa Scale, assert universal applicability (Shilpa & Murthy, 2011, 2012. However, they failed to garner widespread empirical attention unlike the Western scales like the Big-Five, Cattell-16 PF (Singh, 2021), reflecting the hegemony of Western frameworks in the discipline. ...

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Debating the colonial ascendant in decolonization of psychology– perspectives from Indian psychology
Colonization of personality psychology in India
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  • August 2021

Indian Journal of History of Science