Mindscape Volume V
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Progressive Education Society’s MODERN COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCE AND COMMERCE Ganeshkhind, Pune-16 DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY MINDSCAPE VOLUME V 2019-2020 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We wish to thank Dr. GAJANAN EKBOTE, Honorable Chairman, Business Council, Progressive Education Society, for his support, motivation, and encouragement. Sincere thanks to Prof. Suresh Todkar, Joint Secretary, Progressive Education Society and Chairman LMC, Prof Mrs. Jyotsana Ekbote, Joint Secretary, Progressive Education Society and Dr. Prakash Dixit, Deputy Secretary Progressive Education Society and Visitor. Our Principal Dr. Sanjay Kharat has always been a source of inspiration to us, especially in research, providing us his valuable insights and suggestions for improvement. Dr. Jyoti Gagangras, Vice-Principal, Arts Faculty, and all the other staff members of the Arts faculty have been appreciative of our efforts and we are thankful to them. All the students who have worked extremely hard to write and present the research papers and who are the stars of this compendium deserve a lot of praise. Thanks to Sheldon Fernandes and Shaantanu Kunte who helped in proof reading and Nashome Crasto for overall assistance. Dr. Sadhana Natu, Associate Professor and Head Department of Psychology 2 FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK I extend my congratulations to the Head, Faculty, and students of the Department of Psychology for putting together the Fifth Volume of their research compendium Mindscape. The topics that the students have chosen on the theme Making Psychology Deliverable to Society are so relevant and I am extremely impressed with their hard work and efforts. It is indeed interesting to read all the papers that the students have written. I am also proud that undergraduate research of this quality is being done at the college and would like to encourage many more students to participate in research. Once again, I congratulate each student for the efforts and outcome of Mindscape. I also appreciate the efforts of Dr. Sadhana Natu and all the faculty members in encouraging and mentoring the students to take up research and giving them research skills. Dr. Sanjay Kharat Principal. 3 ON THE OCCASION OF MINDSCAPE – VOLUME V In the academic year 2019-20, I have been able to curate and deliver KHOJ, a year- long research training endeavour for UG and PG students which culminates into writing abstracts and research papers. It started with ‘learning to identify, germinate and problematise research ideas, followed up with methodologies, data analysis and finally tips on research writing. These four sessions and the umpteen group and individual catching up sessions have translated into presentations in the conference and writing these research papers. This is against the background of the work of the last six years of ‘catching them young’ and facilitating the ‘research bug biting them’! My colleagues Nashome and Swati have helped and participated whole heartedly in this endeavour. This proves that we do not need a lot of people to achieve these outcomes, we just need committed people who work! This time we gave the conference at Christ University a miss after five years of selection and participation after the feedback from our students about falling standards and lack of effective organization. Our students did send abstracts to Chikitsa, Women’s Studies National Conference at SPPU and they have been included in the compendium. There was wholehearted participation in the 29th Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology held in Pondicherry University in December 2019. The students were selected for poster as well as oral presentations. We have published abstracts as well full- length papers from NAOP convention. The wide range of topics selected, and my time spent on mentoring these students, was time well spent, since the students got tremendous response and whole- hearted appreciation in the conference. Once again, I wish to place on record that my colleague and Vice Principal, Arts Dr Jyoti Gagangras interacted with the students and appreciated their efforts in the exhibition and presentation of their posters and oral presentation that we organized in January in college. Later, Principal Dr Sanjay Kharat who has always supported KHOJ, also appreciated and praised the efforts in the felicitation program of our alumnus Dr Sachin Shinde organized by the department. We are indeed grateful to him. In this academic year we also had a research collaboration with Akash Wasil, a student at Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University USA whom Dr Sachin Shinde and I mentored. It has culminated in a research paper co authored by all three of us and which has been published in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry an Elsevier, peer reviewed journal. Our students participated and assisted in this cohort study. 4 All in all, our students are picking up several research skills as well as a multi- disciplinary perspective, both highly essential prerequisites in their further education. I am looking forward to another fruitful year of research engagement in the coming year, despite the COVID 19 Crisis that is looming large! Dr. Sadhana Natu Associate Professor and Head Department of Psychology DISCLAIMER Though the papers have research value and all the abstracts were peer reviewed for National Academy of Psychology through a process of blind review, I wish to place on record that they have not gone through a Plagiarism check and the final papers are not peer reviewed. Dr Sadhana Natu 5 A NOTE The Academic Year 2019-2020 has witnessed a boom in young researchers at the Department of Psychology. Every year the volume of Mind Scape has increased. Along with quantity there has also been a rise of the quality in research being conducted. This year many students wrote for the 28th National Academy of Psychology Conference held in December 2019 at Pondicherry University. The theme of the Conference was ‘Making Psychology Deliverable to Society’ and that spoke to many of the students as being a part of the Department of Psychology they have been exposed to Community based Psychology through the exposure given to them by Dr. Sadhana Natu. The diverse and creative topics students undertook is proof of them having internalised the efforts of the Head, Dr. Natu to introduce them to community and society-based Psychology. I congratulate Dr, Natu and all the students who wrote and presented papers at the National and International Conference. I am happy to be a part of this unique and thriving department and look forward to the next Volume of Mind Scape. Nashome Crasto, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology 6 INDEX Sr. Title Authors No. Resuscitating Environment by Revisiting School 1 Aishwarya Bhojkar Ecosystems 2 A Walk in the Twilight: Awareness about Aged Care Archana Deshpande War ‘fair’? - Understanding military’s approach towards Bhoomi Anupama 3 emotional, moral, and ethical conflict of soldiers and its Anant complexities Breaking Binaries: Towards Normalising Gender- 4 Shubham D. Jadhav Neutral Clothing Needs, Aspirations and Achievements of the people of 5 the unorganised sector: Bringing the “unorganised” Gayatri Lokhande sector centre stage. 6 Let us Talk about Sex. Isha Sanjay Vetal 7 Of Lost Homes and Rebuilt Lives Suveni Kaul Challenges Faced by Children of Divorced Parents: An 8 Nupur Dodke Exploratory Study 9 Camera Obscura: An Analysis of a Caste Narrative Pavan Mache Helping the Helpers: A study of the work experiences Shivani Bundela, 10 and mental well-being of CBO workers Shreyas J. Bhopi Shreya 11 A Happy India? Of problems, progress, and possibilities Subbannavar The Blind Side: A Qualitative Analysis of Youth Career 12 Surabhi Soman Aspirations with Respect to Civil Services. The Holy War – A Qualitative Analysis of Religious Rema Anjali 13 Conflicts and Discrimination in India With Reference to D’Souza Christianity And Sikhism CONNECTION ERROR: Assessing Accessibility of 14 Ishitta Shinde School Counselors Shifting the Balance – Managing cross cultural 15 Saloni Thakur diversity and identity. Back to School- Inclusion of Mental Health in School 16 Manasi Oak Curriculum ABSTRACTS 7 Put on Your Dancing Shoes: A Study of Dance 1 Aasawari Kulkarni Movement Therapy Hello! How May I Assist Myself? – Unravelling Barriers 2 to Mental Health Service Accessibility Among Lavina Johnson Corporate Call Centre Employees Moving fast and breaking things in the mental health Ananya 3 landscape: a feasibility study of mental health apps in Sankarambadi India. छꥍपन इचं छाती Attitude Towards Hegemonic Masculinity 4 Apurva Sakpal Across Caste in the Indian Middle Class. Fabrication of Fallacy: An Analytical Study of the False 5 Gauri Thoke Memory Depiction in Popular Movies. Psychology for Everyone- An analytical study of 6 Shubham D. Jadhav Psychology Representation in the Academic syllabi 7 Don't Underestimate the Power of a Common...Woman: Preetika D 8 Gender in dance! Does it really matter? Sanjh and Shifa Social Psychology and intergroup harmony: Does 9 harmony really exist? Tanvi Athalye 8 Resuscitating environment by revisiting school ecosystems1 Aishwarya Bhojkar* and Dr. Sadhana Natu** *T.Y.B.A. Department of Psychology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind ** Associate Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Modern College Of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind Abstract Moulding young minds towards environment conservation has become crucial. EVS was a separate subject in Indian primary education but as of 2012, NCERT has infused environmental learning into language studies and sciences so that it will not be studied only for grades. Despite this initiative, children still have inadequate exposure to ‘habitat’ and there is little active learning from the natural and social worlds around them (Sharma & Menon). Also, studies attribute the lack of motivation to bring sustainable environmental change to denial, bystander effect and a fatalistic attitude. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the current study is to introduce a form of education that will sensitize and inspire students to contribute to the environment they live in.