Vijay Parkash Ph.D’s research while affiliated with International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi and other places

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Publications (2)


Personality Assessment Paradigms
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April 2016

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Vijay Parkash

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Ever since the field of psychology has emerged, efforts have continued to explain personality in terms of different theories, models, and terminologies. Simultaneous to that is the line of devising and designing various personality testing and assessment methodologies. Defining personality in terms of different conceptualizations has been the ultimate aim of efforts by researchers to fill in the gaps in knowledge. However, the use of different assessment methodologies has attendant issues and raises many questions. Ranging from projective and semi-projective tests, through self-assessment and peer rating-based objective questionnaires and inventories developed using classical test theory, to the recently emerging situational judgment tests and application of item-response theory parameters, there have been enormous paradigm shifts in the methods of personality assessment. Although different researchers have provided inputs regarding the relative suitability and preference of one paradigm over the other, the question remains as to which paradigm explains personality optimally, and why any one particular paradigm should be preferred. Issues of relative psychometric advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm create a further dilemma in the minds of budding researchers. The present article is a meta-analytic synthesis of various personality assessment paradigms wherein the authors attempt to put forth all such challenging issues and try to find, and seek from eminent scientists, the answer to this dilemma.


Stress Research: Varied Paradigms

April 2014

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The term 'stress' is used to denote varied type of concepts in different disciplines. The concept of stress and has gained augmented attention of researchers during the past century, and it still continues to remain a popular research domain. Researchers and scientists of different behavioral and health sciences have attempted to look into the concept of stress from varied perspectives. Literature witnesses that numerous paradigms exist to delineate the conceptual understanding and stress research; however, there is hardly any meta-analytic synthesis that presents different perspectives and paradigms together to the reader. Present article reviews different existing perspectives for the thorough understanding of the concept of stress from multiple viewpoints. Different research paradigms, running through which the topic of stress has gained a huge momentum, have been discussed concisely. The authors present a meta-analytical review of different conceptual models and research approaches to stress. Beginning with the early physiological notions of 1920s, the genetic, epigenetic, biophysiological, psychological, sociological, developmental, environmental stress, and occupational stress paradigms have been reviewed and more future researches with combined methodological approaches tested with multivariate analytic methods have been called for to further simplify the understanding of the concept of stress from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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... (d) The "Civic engagement and responsibility" dimension was included. Although the current questionnaire bridges the gap mentioned above, some limitations inherent in self-report questionnaires should be noted, including response biases, socially desirable responses, misinterpretation of the meanings, and respondents' overestimation of their DL (Parkash & Kumar, 2016;Porat et al., 2018). Besides, the questionnaire can only show a pattern but cannot provide an in-depth explanation of why and how students score high or low. ...

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The development and validation of the digital literacy questionnaire and the evaluation of students’ digital literacy
Personality Assessment Paradigms
  • Citing Chapter
  • April 2016