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Motivational Speaker Prem Rawat and Stress Management: A Study among Youth in Mumbai Live Event
Rashmi Kumari,
Senior Research Scholar, Mass Communication and Journalism, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India [email protected], 8445928227
1. Introduction achievement award, “He is a man of such standard Today’s era of modernization and technology, stress, and excellence we cannot but help love that man for depression and anxiety are major issues among the all that he has given to the world. Most importantly, youth. The causes of stress and depression among he inspires, he impacts, and influences lives all over colleges / universities are their educational and the world.” academics performance like decrease in grades, lack (https://www.wopg.org/prem-rawat/) of student’s skills and ability to perform. Some of the In a specially prepared video for the Nordic Peace common reasons of stress and depression are time Conference in Oslo, Prem Rawat highlighted the stress, failure, tough competition, academic pressure, very real possibility of peace in our lifetime. He emotional breakdowns due to inferior feeling, etc. said: “There are people who are very greedy, there Youth need inspiration and motivation to overcome are people who don’t care. But in my opinion, that is from the problems as stress and depression are not a minority. The majority of the people on the face of the solution for anyone. So, researcher has selected this earth want peace, and if this is true, then peace Prem Rawat as an inspirational communicator. He on earth is a very achievable objective. People say spoke at 79 events in 2017 across the globe, it’s not going to happen. Well, let this time belong to including many media interviews which were those who believe it can happen, not to the ones who organized in the United States, Australia, South say it cannot.” Africa, Northern Ireland, Fiji and India. A number of (https://www.tprf.org/about-tprf/about-prem-rawat/) events were also covered by radio and TV Stations and also through newspaper articles in the year of Usage of language comprises an element of 2017. His message had already reached 120 million persuasion and motivation in them. Jesus, Buddha all people in June and this amount had raised to over these religious icons and the great leaders in the 410 million, a record year. history persuaded and influenced the people through (https://www.wopg.org/) their teachings in the framework of classical In recognition of his profound impact on individuals rhetorical theory. Therefore, it’s essential to identify and his contribution toward the world’s that Prem Rawat as a motivational speaker, his understanding of peace, Prem Rawat has received speech has impact on youngsters to manage stress numerous keys to cities and awards over the years and the media accessed by the youngsters to listen and has been named an Ambassador of Peace four him apart from his live events. A researcher also times: by UNIPAZ (University of Peace in Brazil) conducted similar type of study in Ranchi, and three governmental organizations. He was Jharkhand, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi India. awarded the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation’s Brand These studies suggested that Prem Rawat as an Laureate Lifetime Achievement award, in 2012, inspirational communicator has positive impact on reserved for statesmen and individuals whose actions youngsters. and work have impacted positively the lives of Keywords: Youth, Motivational Speaker, Prem people and the world at large. Nelson Mandela and Rawat, Stress, Depression Hillary Clinton are among the three recipients of this prestigious award. 2. Objectives
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To study Prem Rawat as a motivational speaker Figure 1: and his speech through youngsters participated Q1) How did you get information in Mumbai live event about today’s event of Prem Rawat? To analyze if Prem Rawat speech helps 60% youngsters to overcome from stress and 50.00% depression 50% 46.43% To understand the media access by youngsters to 42.86% 42.86% listen speeches of Prem Rawat 40%
3. Research Design 30% Researcher has done pilot study and Survey method 20% is used. It is both qualitative and quantitative 10.71% analysis. 10% Unit of Analysis : Young individual age 0% between 14 to 35 years Internet Email Friend Family Others, Please Sampling Technique : Purposive Sampling mention Selected Sample : 28 respondents A B C D E Duration of study : 16th December, 2018 Universe of the study : Participants who attend live event of Prem Rawat in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Table 1: India How did you Primary Data : Through Interview get information Schedule Q1) about today’s Frequency Percentage* event of Prem Secondary Data : The secondary data Rawat? Includes books, magazines, journals, information A Internet 13 46.43% centres, periodicals and B Email 3 10.71% different websites. C Friend 14 50.00% 4. Limitation of the Study D Family 12 42.86% Others, Please Researcher has done pilot study and only 28 E 12 42.86% respondents had been taken for the study. mention Keeping in view time, budget and feasibility, researcher collected data after live event of Prem Inference Rawat held in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The figure (f-1) mentioned above shows that half of the respondents (50 percent) selected friend for getting information about live event of Prem Rawat 5. Use of Statistical tools in Mumbai, Maharashtra and a little less than half of Interview Schedule the respondents (46.43 percent) picked internet. Table Presentation 42.86 percent of the respondents chose family. It Pie Chart and Bar Graph verifies that two step flow theory exists in the Microsoft excel society, opinion leaders like friend and family play Word document important role in decision making. (*Most of the respondents opted more than one option). 6. Data Analysis and Interpretation Q1) How did you get information about today’s Figure 2: event of Prem Rawat? Family
100% 83.33% 80% 60%
40% 16.67% 20% 0% Television Center
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Table 2: Table 4: Family Frequency Percentage Q1) How did you get information about today’s event of Prem Rawat? Television 10 83.33% Options Opted Frequency Percentage Center 2 16.67% Total 12 100.00% One Option Opted 15 53.57% Two Options Opted 7 25.00% Inference Three Options Opted 2 7.14% The researcher dug and explored the option family Four Options Opted 1 3.57% that how family got information about the live event whoever picked the option family, majority of the Five Options Opted 3 10.71% respondents (83.33 percent) informed television and Total 28 100.00% some of them (16.67 percent) told center. Center is the place where they get information about upcoming Inference events. According to the above declared figure (f-4) it is cleared that respondents can choose more than one Figure 3: option for the information regarding live event of Others, Please mention Prem Rawat, so, 53.57 percent of the respondents 100% 58.33 chose one option. 25 percent of the respondents were % 41.67 opted two options and 10.71 percent of the % 50% respondents preferred five options, 7.14 percent of the respondents were opted three options. 0% Television Center Q2) Prem Rawat as a communicator, what rank would you like to give? Figure 5: Table 3: Others, Please Q2) Prem Rawat as a communicator, what Frequency Percentage mention rank would you like to give? Television 7 58.33% Very Center 5 41.67% Good Total 12 100.00% 17.86%
Good Inference Excellent 0.00% Going ahead, the researcher dug the option (Others, 78.57% please mention), a little more than half of the Satisfactory respondents (58.33 percent) informed television and 3.57% a little less than half (41.67 percent) said center. Television and Center both have somehow equal Poor importance in disseminating information about live 0.00% event.
Figure 4: Excellent Very Good Good Q1) How did you get information about Satisfactory Poor today’s event of Prem Rawat?
60% 53.57% Table 5: Prem Rawat as a 50% communicator, Q2) Frequency Percentage 40% what rank would you like to give? 30% 25.00% A Excellent 22 78.57% 20% 10.71% B Very Good 5 17.86% 7.14% 10% 3.57% C Good 0 0.00% 0% D Satisfactory 1 3.57% One Two Three Four Five E Poor 0 0.00% Option Options Options Options Options Opted Opted Opted Opted Opted Total 28 100.00%
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Inference Q4) Do you like the content of his message? The figure (f-5) and table (t-5) illustrated that Figure 7: majority of the respondents (78.57 percent) selected excellent and 17.86 percent of the respondent picked Q4) Do you like the content of his very good while the researcher asked the respondents message? to rank Prem Rawat as a communicator. No 0.00% Q3) The way he expressed his message / speech, Yes Cannot how would you scale? 96.43% Say Figure 6: 0.00%
Q3) The way he expressed his message / Missing speech, how would you scale? Response 3.57%
Very Good Excellent 14.29% 85.71% Yes No Cannot Say Missing Response
Good 0.00% Table 7: Do you like the Satisfactory Q4) content of his Frequency Percentage 0.00% message? A Yes 27 96.43% Poor B No 0 0.00% 0.00% C Cannot Say 0 0.00% * Missing Response 1 3.57% Total 28 100.00% Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Poor
Inference Table 6: The next question was based on the content of Prem The way he Rawat message, the figure (f-7) helps to know that expressed his largest number of the respondents said yes. Q3) message / speech, Frequency Percentage how would you Q5) Do you agree with the today’s message / scale? speech given by Prem Rawat? A Excellent 24 85.71% Figure 8: B Very Good 4 14.29% Q5) Do you agree with the today’s message C Good 0 0.00% / speech given by Prem Rawat? D Satisfactory 0 0.00% E Poor 0 0.00% Strongly Total 28 100.00% Agree 92.86% Inference Going ahead, the next question was related to the way Prem Rawat expressed his message/speech, from the above figure (f-6) it is cleared that the largest number of the respondents (85.71 percent) Strongly Disagree Agree picked excellent and 14.29 percent of the respondent 7.14% selected very good. 0.00% Disagree Neutral 0.00% 0.00%
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Table 8: Table 9: Do you agree In this era of with the today’s modernization Q5) message / speech Frequency Percentage and technology, given by Prem do you think, the Rawat? message / speech A Strongly Agree 26 92.86% Q6) of Prem Rawat Frequency Percentage B Agree 2 7.14% will help C Neutral 0 0.00% youngsters to overcome from D Strongly Disagree 0 0.00% depression and E Disagree 0 0.00% stress? Total 28 100.00% A Strongly Agree 25 89.29% B Agree 3 10.71% Inference C Neutral 0 0.00% Going further, the next question was to find out Prem D Strongly Disagree 0 0.00% Rawat’s message/speech of live event listened by the respondent, do they agree or disagree? The above E Disagree 0 0.00% figure (f-8) explains that largest number of the Total 28 100.00% respondents (92.86 percent) strongly agree with it. Inference Q6) In this era of modernization and technology, According to the above exhibited figure (f-9), it can do you think, the message / speech of Prem Rawat be understood that in this era of modernization and will help youngsters to overcome from depression technology, the message / speech of Prem Rawat and stress? would help youngsters to overcome from depression Figure 9: and stress as largest number of the respondents (89.29 percent) strongly agree and rest (10.71 Q6) In this era of modernization and percent) were agreed with it. technology, do you think, the message / speech of Prem Rawat will help Q7) Will Prem Rawat’s message help you in your youngsters to overcome from daily life? depression and stress? Figure 10:
Strongly Q7) Will Prem Rawat’s message help you Agree Agree in your daily life? 89.29% 10.71%
Yes Strongly 100% Disagree No 0.00% 0% Neutral 0.00% Cannot Say Disagree 0% 0.00%
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Strongly Disagree Yes No Cannot Say Disagree
Table 10: Will Prem Rawat’s Q7) message help Frequency Percentage you in your daily life?
A Yes 28 100.00%
B No 0 0.00% C Cannot Say 0 0.00% Total 28 100.00%
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Inference Inference Going ahead, the researcher wanted to know that The next question was related to the media they Prem Rawat’s message helps respondents in their access to listen Prem Rawat apart from live event, daily life, the above figure (f-10) depicts that all the largest number of the respondents (96.43 percent, respondents said yes. 92.86 percent and 82.14 percent) selected smartphone, television and internet respectively. Q8) Apart from live event / program which media (*Most of the respondents opted more than one do you access to listen Prem Rawat? option). Figure 11: Q8) Apart from live event / program Figure 12: which media do you access to listen Prem Others, Please mention Rawat? 80% 120% 60.00% 60% 96.43% 40.00% 100% 92.86% 40% 82.14% 80% 20% 0% 60% Television Center
40% 32.14% Table 12: 17.86% 17.86% Others, Please mention Frequency Percentage 20% 7.14% 3.57% Television 2 40.00%
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Center 3 60.00%
DVD DVD Total 5 100.00%
Radio Radio Internet
Television Television Smartphone Smartphone
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Missing Response Missing Going next the researcher explored the option (others, please mention), more than half of the Others, Please mention mention PleaseOthers, respondents (60 percent) informed center and less
Brochure etc.)Brochure than half of the respondents (40 percent) said television.
Figure 13: Prem Rawat literature (Magazines, Books, literature(Magazines,Rawat Prem A B C D E F G * Q8) Apart from live event / program which media do you access to listen Table 11: Prem Rawat? Apart from live event / 45% 42.86% program which Q8) Frequency Percentage* media do you 40% access to listen 35% Prem Rawat? A Internet 23 82.14% 30% B Smartphone 27 96.43% 25% C Television 26 92.86% 21.43% D Radio 2 7.14% 20% Prem Rawat 14.29% literature 15% 10.71% E (Magazines, 5 17.86% Books, 10% 7.14% Brochure etc.) 5% F DVD 9 32.14% 0.00% 0.00% Others, Please G 5 17.86% 0% mention One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Missing Option Options Options Options Options Options Options * 1 3.57% Opted Opted Opted Opted Opted Opted Opted Response
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Table 13: Table 14: Q8) Apart from live event / program which media What rank will do you access to listen Prem Rawat? you give to Prem Rawat as a Options Opted Frequency Percentage ‘Communicator’, One Option Opted 0 0.00% ‘his message’, ‘the Two Options Opted 4 14.29% Q9) way of expressing Frequency Percentage / communicating Three Options Opted 12 42.86% his message’ and Four Options Opted 6 21.43% ‘the influence of Five Options Opted 3 10.71% his message on Six Options Opted 0 0.00% you’? Seven Options Opted 2 7.14% A Excellent 25 89.29% Missing Response 1 3.57% B Very Good 1 3.57% Total 28 100.00% C Good 0 0.00% D Satisfactory 0 0.00% Inference E Poor 0 0.00% The above figure (f-13) represented that respondents * Missing Response 2 7.14% can choose more than one option for the information Total 28 100.00% regarding apart from live event of Prem Rawat other media they access to listen his message, so, 42.86 Inference percent of the respondents chose three options. 21.43 Going ahead, the next question was to rank Prem percent of the respondents were opted four options Rawat as a ‘Communicator’, ‘his message’, ‘the way and 14.29 percent of the respondents preferred two of expressing / communicating his message’ and ‘the options, 10.71 percent and 7.14 percent of the influence of his message’, largest number of the respondents opted five and seven options respondents (89.29 percent) picked excellent and respectively. 3.57 percent of the respondents chose very good.
Q9) What rank will you give to Prem Rawat as a 7. Conclusion ‘Communicator’, ‘his message’, ‘the way of expressing / communicating his message’ and ‘the Approximately 600 million population in India is influence of his message on you’? younger than 25 years of age and close to 70% of the total population is less than 40 years of age. Near Figure 14: about 40% of the Indian population is aged between 13 to 35 years that is defined as youth according to Q9) What rank will you give to Prem the National Youth Policy. Such a huge population Rawat as a ‘Communicator’, ‘his of young is not only exceptional in India but also in message’, ‘the way of expressing / the World. communicating his message’ and ‘the (https://www.mapsofindia.com/my- influence of his message on you’? india/india/problems-faced-by-youth-in-india) Therefore, the central part of the study was to find Very out the role of Prem Rawat as a communicator and Good his message in doing away with the stress and 3.57% depression among youth and the media use to access Excellent Good 89.29% his message. The researcher had prepared various 0.00% objectives for interpreting and analyzing the aim of Satisfacto the research including the live event most touching ry topics. This research would be notably helpful for the 0.00% youngsters facing stress and depression in this Poor modernization and technology eventually benefitting 0.00% the society. The researcher had taken quantitative Missing and qualitative approach for interpreting and Response analyzing the data. The study concludes with the 7.14% results of the objectives:
Excellent Very Good Objective: To study Prem Rawat as a Good Satisfactory motivational speaker and his speech through Poor Missing Response youngsters participated in Mumbai live event
Result: The study shows that Prem Rawat as a motivational speaker and his speech mostly
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liked by the youngsters and would impact positively on the life of youngsters, question no. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 are based on this objective. Objective: To analyze if Prem Rawat speech helps youngsters to overcome from stress and depression Result: Question no. 6 and 7 are related to the above objective and the researcher identified that majority of the respondents agreed that in this era of modernization and technology, the speeches of Prem Rawat will help youngsters to overcome from depression and stress. Largest number of respondents said that his speeches helping them in their daily life and motivating them to live their life with possibilities and solutions.
Objective: To understand the media access by youngsters to listen speeches of Prem Rawat Result: The researcher asked some questions from the respondents to achieve the above mentioned objective, question no. 1 and 8 are based on the stated objective and are interlinked. The study suggests that majority of the respondents access his speeches through smartphone, television and internet. Friends and family also contributed to explore live event of Prem Rawat and to overcome stress and depression.
Further Readings https://www.wopg.org/ (Retrieved on 23/12/2018, 11:04 am) https://www.wopg.org/prem-rawat/ (Retrieved on 22/08/2018 10:48 am) https://www.tprf.org/about-tprf/about-prem-rawat/ (Retrieved on 22/08/2018, 16:45 pm) https://www.mapsofindia.com/my- india/india/problems-faced-by-youth-in-india (Retrieved on 17/01/2019 9:59 pm) https://www.tprf.org/programs/ffp/ https://www.tprf.org/about-tprf/ https://www.tprf.org/programs/message-of-peace/ https://www.tprf.org/programs/emergency-relief/
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