©National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) India PsychologicalPsychological StudiesStudies (December(December 2009)2009) 54:267–309 267 ABSTRACTS Oral Presentations Attitudes and Social Perception infl uence by HIV/AIDS general knowledge. The implications of the results were discussed with regards the strategies of anti-HIV/ A-15 Gender Perceptions about Occupations among AIDS stigma campaign. Female Japanese Students: Is that Job Masculine, Feminine or Gender Neutral B-193 Consuming Thai Product behavior in Thai Tomoko Adachi (Osaka University of Education, Japan) Undergraduate Students This study addressed the questions: Do students with traditional Shuttawwee Sitsira (Srinakharinvirot University, gender role attitudes tend to consider female dominated occupations Thailand) to be rather feminine and male dominated occupations to be rather The present study is a correlational comparative study aimed at masculine? Are gender role attitudes related to occupational self- investigating important psychological and situational predictors of effi cacy through the mediation of gender perceptions? A survey was consuming Thai product behavior, as well as, fi nding at-risk groups. conducted with woman college and university students in Japan The sample of 371 Thai undergraduate students in junior and senior (N=565), using a three-part questioner that consisted of Egalitarian levels was obtained. The sample consisted of 101 male and 269 Sex Role Attitudes (SESRA-S) by Suzuki (1994), the M-F scale of female students. Multiple regression analysis indicated that social the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). Results indicated that support from peer was an important predictor of this behavior, the main effect of gender role attitudes was signifi cant for male followed by nationalism, and future orientation and self control as well as female dominated occupations. The participants with with the accuracy of 26.6%. The highest predictive percentage low egalitarian gender role attitudes considered male dominated of 32.4% was found in senior students with the same important occupations to be more masculine than those with medium or high predictors as in total group. Furthermore, the results showed that egalitarian gender role attitudes. Similarly in female dominated male students, junior students in faculty of humanities, and senior occupations, the participants with low egalitarian gender role students in faculty of social science were the at-risk groups. attitudes considered female dominated occupations to be more feminine than those with medium or high egalitarian gender role attitudes. Gender perceptions about male dominated occupations mediated the relationship between gender role attitudes and Clinical and Neuroscience Issues in occupational self-effi cacy. It is concluded that interventions Social Psychology focusing on gender role attitudes and gender perceptions would be useful for guiding career decisions of female students. A-109 Lunatic Asylums in Kerala: Emergence of A Science over the Indigenous Observances of Insanity A-47 The Stereotype about People with HIV/AIDS Baiju Gopal, T. Sasaidharan and Tissy Mariam in China Thomas (India) Li Liu and Yu Deng (Beijing Normal University, China) The mainstream psychiatric practices in Kerala modeled on the In the modern day world the knowledge on HIV/ AIDS still westernized concept and classifi cation of mental illness, largely suffers stereotype and there is a strong need to study its causes address the mental aberrations as diseases/disorders. Keeping for appropriate interventions. The present study aims for its social constructivist ontological and epistemological position, the hence the present study aimed about investigating people’s present study is pitched in to the complex cultural psyche of people knowledge on HIV/AIDS on their stereotype. In the preliminary of Kerala. Qualitative exploratory method used in the study delves study 325 and in the main study, 578 participants were asked to into a search of a new meanings about madness in the milieu rate the extent to which people with HIV/AIDS possessed range of Kerala. Through analysis of the Archival documents (from of attributes identifi ed in the preliminary study using a 5-point 1868 to 1937), fi eld observation and interviews about the Asylum scale. An exploratory factor analysis resulted in a three subtypes practices in Kerala, the present study looks into the transformation the stereotype, namely depression, nervosity and concealment. from indigenous healing tradition to the modern psychiatric Regression analysis showed that the subtype depression was practices. The research takes a step to explore the crisis of infl uenced both by HIV/AIDS general knowledge and by the HIV psychiatry and its cultural unspecifi cities in historical frame, the transmission knowledge, and that the subtype concealment was indigenous healing traditions and the asylums practices in Kerala. 268 Psychological Studies (December 2009) B-137 The Effective Teachers: Clients' Contributions less physical exercise, calorie intake was between 2050 to 2450 to the Learning Psychotherapy Process Kcal compared to overweight and normal groups. High levels of Naveen Grover, Gauri Shanker Kaloiya and insecurity-loneliness, depression, guilt-proneness, ergic tension, Tej Bahadur Singh (Institute of Human Behavior and emotional instability, inferiority, self-consciousness, paranoid, Allied Sciences, India) suspiciousness were observed in the obese group compared to others. It may be concluded that obese subjects had highest level Learning psychotherapy is a complex process and interaction of anxiety compared to others among various factors, such as supervisory relationship, theoretical understanding of psychology, supervisee's characteristics, client's characteristics, impacts its learning. The present paper describes B-514 Counselling and Family Therapy: these client's contributions through brief case presentations. These Manifestations of the Applied Aspect of Social contributions have been observed over a period of a decade, Psychology involving individual adult psychotherapies broadly following a Amiteshwar Ratra (IGNOU, India) cognitive behavioral approach. The client's contribution to the This paper brings out the interface of counselling and family psychotherapy process and outcome was found to be critical. therapy with social psychology, emphasizing that the former The client contribution is necessary but not suffi cient condition are virtually a manifestation of the applied aspect of the latter. for learning psychotherapy. To appreciate the role of clients as Counselling and family therapy draw from the domain of social teachers it is necessary that one has the access to the formal teacher psychology to enable individuals develop their potential to solve and adequate knowledge of theories of psychology. problems and increase their resilience and positive adaptation capabilities. For greater effectiveness, it is vital for counsellors and B-123 Psychosocial Stress and Conversion Disorder family therapists to learn about the social infl uences on individuals in Indian Children and groups from social research. Social infl uence, social relations, Prahbhjot Malhi, C. Mahesh Kumar and Pratibha attitude, motivation, obedience, conformity, confl ict resolution, are Singhi (PGIMER, India) some areas where people mutually each other. Though, efforts are being made by the experts in the area of counselling and family The study examines the relationship between psychosocial stressors, therapy to utilize the theorization and research in social psychology adverse life events, and development of conversion symptoms in in dealing with varied situations and issues, this interface needs to Indian children. 29 children (Mean = 10.31 years, SD = 1.89) with be strengthened. a clinical diagnosis of conversion disorder, as per the DSM IV criteria, were studied. Results indicated that non-epileptic seizures A-96 Exploring Neighborhood Contexts, Ethnic (69%) were the most common and majority were from rural areas Density and Social Capital in the Development of (69%) and low SES families (66%). Psychosocial stressor could be Schizophrenia and other Psychosis in Guam: A Three elicited in 83% of the children with conversion disorder reported Year Incidence Study. signifi cantly higher number of life events in the last one year as Rita Sharma Setpaul (Guam) compared to the previous year. The stress score associated with the Higher incidence of schizophrenia and psychosis is reported for life events faced in the last one year was also signifi cantly higher ethnic minority groups and immigrant populations. Researchers have turned to environmental and social risk factors in than the previous year for the children with conversion disorder. understanding the etiology of psychosis. The current research is a Thus conversion symptoms are common in poor, rural households three-year incidence study examining the effects of neighborhood and in families where expression of emotional distress is generally contexts such as ethnic density, social capital including crime discouraged. rates and voter turnout, urbanization, and marginalization on the incidence of psychosis. Guam’s ethnically diverse population, its A-37 A Psychological assessment of Anxiety in rapid development in the last half century, its strategic role in the Overweight and Obese Adults U.S. militarism, and its socio-political status as an unincorporated territory of the U.S. creates a tapestry of complex social variables Kamayani Mathur and Taranjit