Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behaviora... more Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behavioral sciences. There are theories defining stress in two broad categories, namely Eustress and Distress. The literature concerning the 'stress' does talk about the negative as well as positive aspects of stress, however the aspects concerning positive stress have not been given due attention. Eustress, as a concept has been susceptible to many different interpretations, largely because of widely acceptable negative undertone associated with the Stress. Therefore, through this paper an attempt has been made to develop a theoretical understanding of Positive Stress by exploring the concept qualitatively. An incidental sample of fifty five (55) MBAstudents, who had chosen Stress Management as an elective course in the second year of their MBA program, was taken for the proposed qualitative assessment. Students' answers to the theoretical question on 'Positive Stress' in the...
Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions... more Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, reducing carbon footprint leading to sustainable development, is at the centre of all policy discussions across the globe, thereby tailoring human behaviour is considered imperative by contemporary scholarship. This study attempts to understand the psycho-social interaction of individuals that promote such a human action. Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework has been used to predict human behaviour assuming human behaviour for energy conservation is one of the pro-social low-cost behaviour. Value orientation of individuals, energy conservation beliefs, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, and energy conservation attitude have been measured to gauge the behavioural intention, along with capturing the socio-economic realities pertaining to households and individuals therein. Awareness towards energy conservation efforts and social interaction are found to be key behaviou...
This study examines the factor associated with financial inclusion during the time of the pandemi... more This study examines the factor associated with financial inclusion during the time of the pandemic in rural area. Hundred sample of two states in India- 97 from Madhya Pradesh and 3 from Bihar were surveyed. Data on financial inclusion were analysed by using binary logistic regression. Finding suggest that financially inclusive have more monthly income, belong to forward caste having no ration card are more motivated towards operating bank account, having saving in the post office, avail credit loan and for less period of time, even in instalment having fixed deposit, having insurance policy that to off different types, aware of ATM use, having ATM card, having net banking facility, mobile banking facility, aware of direct cash transfer schemes, aware of no frill account, interest on bank loan, having Aadhar card which is linked with bank account, find difficulty in operating banking facility and belong to male category. This improvement occurred after 73 year of independence and ha...
This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (M... more This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (MACS), the “liberal” cooperatives created through special legislation by Andhra Pradesh, India in a drive to make the cooperative structure more member- and growth-centric and less government-dependent. It is argued that in the Indian context, where cooperatives historically have remained under the protective and paternalistic care of the state, promotion of liberal cooperative may yield desired results only when appropriate systems of leadership, governance, and user friendly systems are built using a process-oriented approach.
Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions... more Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, reducing carbon footprint leading to sustainable development, is at the centre of all policy discussions across the globe, thereby tailoring human behaviour is considered imperative by contemporary scholarship. This study attempts to understand the psycho-social interaction of individuals that promote such a human action. Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework has been used to predict human behaviour assuming human behaviour for energy conservation is one of the pro-social low-cost behaviour. Value orientation of individuals, energy conservation beliefs, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, and energy conservation attitude have been measured to gauge the behavioural intention, along with capturing the socio-economic realities pertaining to households and individuals therein. Awareness towards energy conservation efforts and social interaction are found to be key behaviour influencers, whereas energy conservation intent is found to be gender neutral. Study implies the underlying necessity to explore mediating and moderating models in order to decipher complex inter-play among key variables for predicting energy conservation behaviour intent.
This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (M... more This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (MACS), the “liberal” cooperatives created through special legislation by Andhra Pradesh, India in a drive to make the cooperative structure more member-and growth-centric and less government-dependent. It is argued that in the Indian context, where cooperatives historically have remained under the protective and paternalistic care of the state, promotion of liberal cooperative may yield desired results only when appropriate ...
Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behaviora... more Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behavioral sciences. There are theories defining stress in two broad categories, namely Eustress and Distress. The literature concerning the ‘stress’ does talk about the negative as well as positive aspects of stress, however the aspects concerning positive stress have not been given due attention. Eustress, as a concept has been susceptible to many different interpretations, largely because of widely acceptable negative undertone associated with the Stress. Therefore, through this paper an attempt has been made to develop a theoretical understanding of Positive Stress by exploring the concept qualitatively. An incidental sample of fifty five (55) MBA students, who had chosen Stress Management as an elective course in the second year of their MBA program, was taken for the proposed qualitative assessment. Students’ answers to the theoretical question on ‘Positive Stress’ in their examination paper were analyzed through qualitative content analysis & thematic analysis methods, leading to identifying perceived theoretical meaning of the concept of ‘Positive Stress’ and its relationship with other theoretical constructs. Qualitative assessment suggests that response to stressors by an individual is ever evolving, hence a model is proposed based on the idea of ‘rejuvenated response’ of an individual to stressors in subsequent stress-cycles in life-time, leading to an alternative view of ‘positive stress path’ to explain ‘Positive Stress’, which is subject to further empirical testing.
Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behaviora... more Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behavioral sciences. There are theories defining stress in two broad categories, namely Eustress and Distress. The literature concerning the 'stress' does talk about the negative as well as positive aspects of stress, however the aspects concerning positive stress have not been given due attention. Eustress, as a concept has been susceptible to many different interpretations, largely because of widely acceptable negative undertone associated with the Stress. Therefore, through this paper an attempt has been made to develop a theoretical understanding of Positive Stress by exploring the concept qualitatively. An incidental sample of fifty five (55) MBAstudents, who had chosen Stress Management as an elective course in the second year of their MBA program, was taken for the proposed qualitative assessment. Students' answers to the theoretical question on 'Positive Stress' in the...
Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions... more Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, reducing carbon footprint leading to sustainable development, is at the centre of all policy discussions across the globe, thereby tailoring human behaviour is considered imperative by contemporary scholarship. This study attempts to understand the psycho-social interaction of individuals that promote such a human action. Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework has been used to predict human behaviour assuming human behaviour for energy conservation is one of the pro-social low-cost behaviour. Value orientation of individuals, energy conservation beliefs, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, and energy conservation attitude have been measured to gauge the behavioural intention, along with capturing the socio-economic realities pertaining to households and individuals therein. Awareness towards energy conservation efforts and social interaction are found to be key behaviou...
This study examines the factor associated with financial inclusion during the time of the pandemi... more This study examines the factor associated with financial inclusion during the time of the pandemic in rural area. Hundred sample of two states in India- 97 from Madhya Pradesh and 3 from Bihar were surveyed. Data on financial inclusion were analysed by using binary logistic regression. Finding suggest that financially inclusive have more monthly income, belong to forward caste having no ration card are more motivated towards operating bank account, having saving in the post office, avail credit loan and for less period of time, even in instalment having fixed deposit, having insurance policy that to off different types, aware of ATM use, having ATM card, having net banking facility, mobile banking facility, aware of direct cash transfer schemes, aware of no frill account, interest on bank loan, having Aadhar card which is linked with bank account, find difficulty in operating banking facility and belong to male category. This improvement occurred after 73 year of independence and ha...
This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (M... more This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (MACS), the “liberal” cooperatives created through special legislation by Andhra Pradesh, India in a drive to make the cooperative structure more member- and growth-centric and less government-dependent. It is argued that in the Indian context, where cooperatives historically have remained under the protective and paternalistic care of the state, promotion of liberal cooperative may yield desired results only when appropriate systems of leadership, governance, and user friendly systems are built using a process-oriented approach.
Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions... more Role of human behaviour in mitigating climate change, controlling Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, reducing carbon footprint leading to sustainable development, is at the centre of all policy discussions across the globe, thereby tailoring human behaviour is considered imperative by contemporary scholarship. This study attempts to understand the psycho-social interaction of individuals that promote such a human action. Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework has been used to predict human behaviour assuming human behaviour for energy conservation is one of the pro-social low-cost behaviour. Value orientation of individuals, energy conservation beliefs, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, and energy conservation attitude have been measured to gauge the behavioural intention, along with capturing the socio-economic realities pertaining to households and individuals therein. Awareness towards energy conservation efforts and social interaction are found to be key behaviour influencers, whereas energy conservation intent is found to be gender neutral. Study implies the underlying necessity to explore mediating and moderating models in order to decipher complex inter-play among key variables for predicting energy conservation behaviour intent.
This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (M... more This case study looks at the processes and functioning of mutually aided cooperative societies (MACS), the “liberal” cooperatives created through special legislation by Andhra Pradesh, India in a drive to make the cooperative structure more member-and growth-centric and less government-dependent. It is argued that in the Indian context, where cooperatives historically have remained under the protective and paternalistic care of the state, promotion of liberal cooperative may yield desired results only when appropriate ...
Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behaviora... more Stress Management has been a long cherished topic for academic debate and discussion of behavioral sciences. There are theories defining stress in two broad categories, namely Eustress and Distress. The literature concerning the ‘stress’ does talk about the negative as well as positive aspects of stress, however the aspects concerning positive stress have not been given due attention. Eustress, as a concept has been susceptible to many different interpretations, largely because of widely acceptable negative undertone associated with the Stress. Therefore, through this paper an attempt has been made to develop a theoretical understanding of Positive Stress by exploring the concept qualitatively. An incidental sample of fifty five (55) MBA students, who had chosen Stress Management as an elective course in the second year of their MBA program, was taken for the proposed qualitative assessment. Students’ answers to the theoretical question on ‘Positive Stress’ in their examination paper were analyzed through qualitative content analysis & thematic analysis methods, leading to identifying perceived theoretical meaning of the concept of ‘Positive Stress’ and its relationship with other theoretical constructs. Qualitative assessment suggests that response to stressors by an individual is ever evolving, hence a model is proposed based on the idea of ‘rejuvenated response’ of an individual to stressors in subsequent stress-cycles in life-time, leading to an alternative view of ‘positive stress path’ to explain ‘Positive Stress’, which is subject to further empirical testing.
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