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Factors Associated with Psychological Morbidity Among School Students During COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the Peritraumatic Phase for Future Management
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has increased the prevalence and burden of psychological morbidity in school students. This study attempted to assess the factors associated with psychological morbidity in school students during the peritraumatic phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected data from 16,738 school students in India using a cross-sectional online-based survey tool. We carried out a binomial logistic regression to estimate the odds of the relationship that psychological morbidity had with independent variables. Results indicated that 4 in 10 school students had psychological morbidity. Those students in grades 1112 (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.21.4), 1718 years of age (OR = 1.4, 95% CI = 1.31.6), from a lower socio-economic status (family income of ?20,00130,000 per month) (OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.81.0) and a student (OR = 2.5, 95% CI = 1.93.4) or a family member of a student (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.41.8) with COVID-19 infection were associated with higher odds of psychological morbidity. The relationship psychological morbidity had with gender, mental well-being and resilient coping was revelatory. Targeted psychosocial interventions are required for high-risk school students to reduce age, grade and socio-economic disparities in COVID-19-related psychological morbidity. These findings have implications for mental health professionals, counsellors, psychologists, social workers and academicians associated with school students. 2025 SAGE Publications. -
Effects of Mindfulness-based Intervention on Academic Anxiety: Enhancing Well-being of Rural Adolescents
Academic worry has been reported to be highly prevalent among adolescents, and it negatively affects their well-being. In comparison to urban adolescents, rural adolescents experience a lesser degree of academic anxiety. At the same time, very little attention is given to this problem of rural adolescents due to the lack of resources to provide such type of care. The poor resources-driven rural area requires a compact, more easily comprehensible and more inclusive intervention programme that can aid a group of students at a time and be more beneficial and effective. Therefore, in this study, mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) is used, which is indigenous, inclusive and compact, as an intervention to enable adolescents to deal with academic anxiety and improve their well-being. In this study, 47 rural school adolescents with academic anxiety underwent an 8-week MBI after the initial screening process and assessment with the Children and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure and WarwickEdinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale. Post and 2-month follow-up assessment after intervention showed a significant decline in academic anxiety and an increase in mindfulness and well-being. 2025 SAGE Publications. -
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Empowering LGBT Integration with Allies, Workplace Strategies and Family Role Models
The workplace encounters challenge due to the absence of inclusive environments, resulting in potential loss of top-tier talent, diminished productivity and diminished business performance. This research endeavours to construct a comprehensive framework for the integration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) individuals, focusing on embedding gender and sexual minorities. This study examines the relationship between diversity-friendly workplace management and LGBT integration through advocacy by allies (ABA) and family role modelling. The research framework is constructed based on the principles of sociometric, signalling and family systems theory and is undertaken within the Indian IT/ITES sector, involving 546 employees across 9 technology parks through a survey methodology. The analysis was carried out utilizing Smart PLS software, employing structural equation modelling and making predictions using partial least squares. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed. Findings demonstrate that effective management of diversity-friendly workplaces has a favourable impact on the integration of LGBT individuals in work environments. Results also suggest that ABA plays a supporting role in this relationship through complementary mediation, while the influence of family role modelling is moderated. This study contributes substantially to both theoretical understanding and managerial practices. A cross-cultural, longitudinal and a qualitative perspective could have added more insights to the study. 2025 Management Centre for Human Values -
The Problem of Perception in Sandor Mais Embers: An Advaitic Study
This article attempts to study the problem of perception in Sandor Mais celebrated novel Embers from the standpoint of the pramana (a method of knowledge) of Advaita Vedanta. An epistemic problem, the problem of perception, concerns the overwhelming questions of life, culminating in an enigmatic amalgamation of dilemmas and paradoxes. Genuine dilemmas and paradoxes problematize human relationships, which is evident in the complex narrative of Embers. Our contention in this article is to show how, even though enacted within the periphery of the purely fictional, Embers bears testimony to the complexities of life that are quickened by the limits of human perception, which keeps one from seeing how things really are by creating a shadow or reflected consciousness. Set against the backdrop of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novel opens up a dialogic space at the intersection of a triangular relationship enacted on the threshold of perception and its multidimensional problems. 2024 Management Centre for Human Values. -
Marital Arrangements and Womens Autonomy: The Narratives of Tibetan Women in Exile
There has been a shift from the previously dominant polyandrous marital arrangements to monogamous arrangements, upon exile, among the Tibetan refugees in India. This article attempts to examine the autonomy of Tibetan women in exile across polyandrous and monogamous marital arrangements through the lens of modernisation and feminist theoretical frameworks. A thematic narrative analysis of 30 Tibetan participants in both marital arrangements has helped in comparing womens autonomy in the domains of inheritance and division of property, household decision-making and with respect to childrens education and occupation. Even though modernising forces partially explain the shift from polyandry to monogamy, the narratives of women belonging to both the monogamous and polyandrous families lend support to the feminist framework suggesting the role of internalisation of social norms and self-abnegation as negatively affecting their autonomy. 2025 CWDS. -
Siri the Healing Mother: Relational Dynamics Between Mother and Child in a Matrilineal Society
The Siri cult revolves around an oral tradition from Tulunadu in Dakshina Kannada (South Canara), India, featuring a story that unfolds over 15,683 lines. It tells the myth of Siri, a remarkable woman, and her lineage. During the famous Siri Jatre (which means festival), women are possessed by the spirits of Siri and her descendants, such as Abbaga and Daraga. This article explores the ritual space of the Siri cult as a transformative arena for women, where the boundaries between myth and reality blur, allowing for collective healing and psychic reintegration. The ritual performances, particularly during the Siri festival, facilitate a trance-like state in which women embody Siri and her struggles, experiencing emotional release. Through communal participation and embodied identification with Siri, women reclaim their repressed emotions, anxieties, and desires, forging new alternative narratives of motherhood, femininity, and divine womanhood. Importantly, Siris divine presence offers women a symbolic anchora figure who legitimises their grief and challenges male-dominated ideals for women to be obedient, nurturing, and submissive. Taking a psychoanalytical lens, this article examines the ritual space of the Siri cult through the framework of object relations theory to explore the psychic processes. The rituals allow women to externalise their inner conflicts and repressed desires, processing their grief and trauma through symbolic enactment. By situating the Siri cult within a psychoanalytical framework, the study reveals how the myth of Siri functions as a transformative object, allowing women to bridge their individual suffering with communal strength, ultimately achieving a sense of psychic integration and empowerment. 2025 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad -
Navigating Queer Subjectivities: Identity Negotiation and Spatial Constraints Among Sexual Minority Women in Kerala, India
Psychological theories often conceptualise identity as a coherent, interiorised essence, a framing that constrains the fluid and relational experiences of sexual minority individuals. In caste-structured contexts like India, identity emerges from continual negotiation across caste, class, gender and religion rather than interior coherence. Drawing on queer phenomenology and critical intersectionality within an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study examines the experiences of sexual minority women in Kerala as they negotiate their identities through sociospatial regulation. Semistructured interviews revealed identity negotiation as a constant interplay of disorientation, reorientation and subversion articulated through three major themes: (a) spatially induced dilemma, which includes dilemmas about self-expression, dissonance in corporeal schema and out-of-sync temporality; (b) navigating spatial constraints, marked by layered and anticipatory shame, religious and ideological tensions, disembodiment shaped by structurally embedded shame materialising as internalised homonegativity, contested queer authenticity and affective negotiations around normativity; (c) embodied everyday acts of subjective subversion, involving flexible reorientations, agentic reworkings of failure and reimagined futures beyond dominant hetero-coherent narratives. By foregrounding nonlinearity and situated subjective subversion, this study critiques essentialist psychological models and emphasises the precarious, situated practices of queer becoming. The Author(s) 2026 -
What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging
Most people believe in human-caused climate change, yet this public consensus can be collectively underestimated (pluralistic ignorance). Across two studies using primary data (n = 3,653 adult participants; 11 countries) and secondary data (ns = 60,230 and 22,496 adult participants; 55 countries), we tested (a) the generalizability of pluralistic ignorance about climate-change beliefs, (b) the effects of a public-consensus intervention on climate action, and (c) the possibility that cultural tightness-looseness might serve as a country-level predictor of pluralistic ignorance. In Study 1, people across 11 countries underestimated the prevalence of proclimate views by at least 7.5% in Indonesia (90% credible interval, or CrI = [5.0, 10.1]), and up to 20.8% in Brazil (90% CrI = [18.2, 23.4]. Providing information about the actual public consensus on climate change was largely ineffective, except for a slight increase in willingness to express ones proclimate opinion, ? = 0.05 (90% CrI = [?0.02, 0.11]). In Study 2, pluralistic ignorance about willingness to contribute financially to fight climate change was slightly more pronounced in looser than tighter cultures, highlighting the particular need for pluralistic-ignorance research in these countries. The Author(s) 2025. -
Study of SH wave propagation in Piezo-material semiconductors with differential imperfect contact mechanism by approximating higher-order quasi-classical method
This study investigates the propagation of a Love-type wave in a multiferroic solid cylindrical shell structure with an imperfect magneto-electroelastic (MEE) interface. An analytical solution for the layer is derived using the spatially variable Quasi-Classical approach. A numerical example illustrates the significant impact of various parameters on the wave's phase velocities and attenuation coefficients. Additionally, graphical comparisons are presented to evaluate the effects of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, electro-mechanical, magneto-mechanical, and magneto-electrical imperfections under electrically and magnetically open and short boundary conditions. The results reveal that the electrically and magnetically open case exhibits significantly higher phase velocities compared to the short case. Key findings are the following: the bonding parameter is directly proportional to phase velocity but inversely proportional to the attenuation coefficient, and imperfection parameters profoundly influence both the phase velocity and attenuation coefficient profiles. This theoretical study provides valuable insights into piezoelectric and piezomagnetic coupling mechanisms, highlighting their potential applications in designing advanced devices such as sensors, actuators, energy harvesters, and nano-electronic systems. The novelty of this work lies in the application of the Quasi-Classical approach to solving differential equations for the first time in a polar coordinate system. IMechE 2025 -
Diabetic retinopathy detection via deep learning based dual features integrated classification model
Background: The primary recognition of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a pivotal requirement to prevent blindness and vision impairment. This deadly condition is identified by highly qualified professionals by examining colored retinal images. Objective: The physical diagnostics for this condition was time-consuming and prone to fault. The development of computer-vision based intelligent systems has develop a main research area to effectually diagnosis the pathologies from an image. Methods: In this research, a novel Deep learning based Dual Features Integrated classification (DD-FIC) framework is designed to detect the DR from a color retinal image. Initially, the fundus images are denoised by Wavelet integrated Retinex (WIR) algorithm to remove the noise artifacts which provide high contrast image. This DD-FIC model contains two phases of feature extraction module to evaluation of several retinal areas. Initially, global features of the fundus image are retrieved by the assist of attention fused efficient model, whereas the attention module dynamically highlights the important features. Afterwards, the segmented retinal vessels data is converted into features for learning the local features. Results: Finally, the collective of features is processed into the Random Forest based feature selection model for the optimal prediction with five different classes using multi-class support vector machine (MCSVM). The efficacy of the proposed DD-FIC framework is estimated by Kaggle dataset with the detection accuracy of 98.6%. Conclusions: The proposed framework rises the accuracy of 1.54%, 3.65%, 13.79% and 6.28% for Multi-channel CNN, CNN, VGG NiN and Shallow CNN respectively. The Author(s) 2024. -
Hybrid response surface methodologyparticle swarm optimization framework for predictive modeling and tensile strength optimization of PLA bio-composites
Developing mechanically robust biodegradable composites is critical for next-generation orthopedic support devices. Although polylactic acid (PLA) is widely used in additive manufacturing, incorporating fillers can lead to reduced tensile performance when interfacial bonding with the matrix is inadequate. This study aims to enhance the mechanical performance of 3D-printed PLA reinforced with 2wt% rice husk-derived silica (SiO2) through optimized post-annealing. A hybrid statisticalcomputational framework combining Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was implemented to identify optimal print speed, annealing temperature, and annealing time. PSO predicted the optimal conditions as 50mm/s, 90.90C, and 60min, respectively, corresponding to a projected ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 54.65MPa. Confirmation experiments validated the prediction, yielding a mean UTS of 54.49MPa with an error below 1%. Scanning electron microscopy revealed improved interlayer fusion and enhanced ductility in the optimized samples relative to unoptimized ones. Overall, the integration of RSM and PSO effectively refined post-annealing conditions without modifying material composition, demonstrating a viable strategy for strengthening PLA-based biocomposites. The proposed framework provides a practical route for tailoring mechanical properties in biomedical additive manufacturing, particularly for load-bearing orthopedic applications. The Author(s) 2026 -
Lyrics of longing: Exploring the role of music in the lived experience of homesickness among college students
The study investigates the multifaceted role of music during homesickness among first-year college students in India. As compared to other mental health outcomes, homesickness is a relatively understudied phenomenon, yet noteworthy due to its direct association with depression and anxiety. Although empirical evidence about music highlights its therapeutic potential for managing stress and anxiety, few studies have explored its role in connection with homesickness. The data for this study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 10 students about their perception of using music during homesickness. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis, the emerging themes pointed to a mixed influence, highlighting the bittersweet nature of music during homesickness. While music validates feelings and boosts confidence and motivation, it also triggers restorative nostalgia and serves as an escape from confronting homesickness. Moreover, native songs fostered an appreciation for ones culture and helped students connect with their roots. The study contributes to understanding how music is a versatile tool for students dealing with homesickness, offering solace and potential challenges. It serves as a guide to future intervention studies that could explore musics long-term influences. Recognising the diverse ways students perceive and respond to music provides valuable insights for developing tailored interventions and support systems. The Author(s) 2024 -
Artificial intelligence in developing countries: The impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for development
This paper explores the potential impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) on developing countries, considering both positive and negative effects across various domains of information, culture, and industry. Generative Artificial Intelligence refers to artificial intelligence (AI) systems that generate content, such as text, audio, or video, aiming to produce novel and creative outputs based on training data. Compared to conversational artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence systems have the unique capability of not only providing replies but also generating the content of those responses. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence during the Fourth Industrial Revolution, exemplified by tools like ChatGPT, have gained popularity and reshaped content production and creation. However, the benefits of generative artificial intelligence are not equally accessible to all, especially in developing countries, where limited access to cutting-edge technologies and inadequate infrastructure pose challenges. This paper seeks to understand the potential impact of generative AI technologies on developing countries, considering economic growth, access to technology, and the potential paradigm shift in education, healthcare, and the environment. The findings emphasize the importance of providing the necessary support and infrastructure to ensure that generative AI contributes to inclusive development rather than deepening existing inequalities. The study highlights the significance of integrating Generative AI into the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in developing countries, where technological change is a crucial determinant of progress and equitable growth. The Author(s) 2023 -
Navigating the need for accessible labelling through the narratives of consumers with visual impairment in India
This study aims to understand the strategies consumers with visual impairment (CWV) use in acquiring product information and explores preferences for accessible labelling and its benefits. This study employed the qualitative approach of thematic analysis. A snowball sampling technique was used to recruit participants. Data were collected from CWV through semi-structured interviews. The sample size of this study was 12. The data were analysed using NVivo software. The study revealed three strategies used by CWV to obtain product information, namely reliance on caregivers, staff, and technology. However, all the strategies employed have multiple drawbacks. The study reported a high preference for accessible labelling in braille and quick response (QR) codes. Implementing a combination of braille labels and QR codes on product packages was the most beneficial strategy for CWV. The Implementation of accessible labels ensures inclusion in the marketplace. The Author(s) 2024 -
Examining the Impact of TRIPS Agreement on Innovation: A Review and Research Agenda
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Students Perceptions on the Generative AI Tool ChatGPT: Examining the Interrelationships Between Knowledge, Willingness and Challenges
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are disruptive innovations of recent times that have tranformed numerous sectors, including education. In the realm of management education, platforms such as ChatGPT are redefining teaching methods, tailoring learning pathways and opening new research frontiers. This study examined MBA students perceptions of their knowledge, willingness to use and challenges encountered when engaging with generative AI tools, particularly ChatGPT considering differences by gender and by usage frequency. Through purposive sampling, responses were collected from 179 MBA students at management institutes in Bengaluru, Karnataka, via an online survey adapted from the validated questionnaire by Chan and Hu. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS version 26 for Windows. Bootstrapped univariate General Linear Models showed no gender-based disparities in students knowledge, willingness or perceived challenges; however, usage frequency of AI tools emerged as a strong predictor of willingness to adopt. Multiple regression results indicated that greater knowledge positively influenced both perceived challenges and willingness, while perceived challenges significantly affected willingness. A Sobel mediation test further demonstrated that challenges partially mediated the effect of knowledge on willingnesssuggesting that increased knowledge heightens awareness of potential challenges, which in turn shapes students willingness to embrace these tools. These outcomes offer actionable guidance for educators and decision-makers, highlighting the importance of enhancing AI literacy, minimizing barriers to adoption and providing inclusive, experiential learning environments to support the responsible and confident integration of generative AI in management education. 2026 XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources -
Exploring the Patterns of Recreational Polysubstance Use and Executive Functions in Indian Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Background: Substance use is a serious public health concern and young adults in India often use multiple substances, often together. There is a dearth of research examining this and its neuropsychological consequences. Polysubstance use (PSU) usually indicates higher chances of dependence and negative outcomes. This study aims to describe the patterns of PSU and associated executive function profiles in a sample of young adults in India. Methods: Fifty-four participants aged 1825 years filled out a self-report questionnaire on PSU, for lifetime and current use of seven classes of substances. Thirty-four participants also performed four executive functions (Flexibility, Inhibition, Working Memory, and Planning). A descriptive analysis was used to identify patterns of PSU and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to compare the executive functions between three groups of substance users with nonusers. Results: Three patterns of PSU were identified in our sample: simultaneous (16.3%), concurrent (37.2%), and mixed (46.5%) patterns of use. Simultaneous and concurrent users reported the most commonly used substance combinations (alcohol/nicotine/cannabis). Performance on executive function tasks was compared among the different groups of substance users and nonusers. Executive function assessments revealed deficits in simultaneous users for inhibition (most errors) and planning (most number of moves) compared to other groups. Concurrent users had the lowest accuracy for the two-back visual working memory. Conclusions: The findings of this small sample study suggest executive function deficits are more common in simultaneous users and underscore the need for more research to examine the synergistic effects of substances on cognition and executive functions. 2025 The Author(s). -
Social-cognitive Skills Training on Interpersonal Understanding of Social Norms During Adolescence
Background: Social-cognitive skills training (SCST) in a therapeutic setup can result in more positive outcomes when incorporated with psychotherapy, especially among adolescents with minor social-cognitive impairments in their social interactions. It may result in multifarious benefits to mitigate their social-cognitive dysfunction. This study aimed to identify the effects of SCST on interpersonal understanding of social norms in adolescents with low social cognition. Methods: In this quasi-experimental research, 80 adolescents (1019 years) with low social cognition, no previous experience of skills training, and absence of any psychological disorders, especially those that affect their social-cognitive functioning, with assent from the participants and written informed consent from the parents/guardian and a score below 58 on the Need For Social-Cognition Scale, were included. They were randomly allocated into SCST or waitlist control group. SCST consists of 20 sessions with indoor activities, games, and discussions, and it has been arranged for 1 hour per 3 days a week for 3 months. Edinburgh social cognition test (ESCoT) was used to assess the degree of interpersonal understanding of social norms among adolescents as part of pre and posttests. Results: The Wilcoxon Sign Ranked Test showed that the interpersonal understanding of social norms after SCST is significantly higher than the interpersonal understanding of social norms SCST with a large effect size. The mean (standard deviation) scores in the ESCoT test improved significantly (P < 0 .001) following [W = 0.001, P < .001, r = 1.000]. Conclusion: SCST effectively improves the interpersonal understanding of social norms, an essential developmental milestone during adolescence. It highlights the importance of focusing on mental health as a developmental asset that can influence social-cognitive development in the future. 2024 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). -
Parental Expectations and Fear of Negative Evaluation Among Indian Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Maladaptive Perfectionism
Background: Contrary to traditional notions of emerging adulthood as a period free from parental pressures, the prolonged transition to adulthood in contemporary society implies that parental influence remains a significant factor in the lives of emerging adults. This presents a potential challenge to emerging adults, as navigating independence while managing parental expectations can result in adverse psychological outcomes. The present study examined the relationship between perceived parental expectations and fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and the mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 466 emerging adults from India between 18 and 25 years old. They responded to the Perception of Parental Expectations Inventory, the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism-Brief Scale, and the Brief Fear of Negative EvaluationStraightforward Items Scale. Results: Correlation analyses revealed significant, positive associations between perceived parental expectations, maladaptive perfectionism, and FNE. Findings from regression analyses indicated that increased perceptions of parental expectations and maladaptive perfectionism predicted increased levels of FNE. The relationship between perceived parental expectations and FNE was fully mediated by maladaptive perfectionism. Conclusion: A key reason for heightened perceptions of parental expectations associated with increased FNE is that emerging adults tend to adopt unrealistic perfectionistic standards. Maladaptive perfectionism represents a vital intervention target for individuals who perceive elevated parental expectations and are at risk for FNE, offering promising avenues for promoting well-being in emerging adults. 2024 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).