N Ahil, Uma Hirisave and Seema Mehrotra
NIMHANS, Bangalore
Well-being is an important construct in the field of positive psychology, which focuses
on building the best qualities in life than just repairing the worst things. Well-being in
psychology is seen traditionally from two perspectives: hedonic and eudaimonic. Hedonic
perspective describes well- being in terms of pain avoidance and pleasure attainment.
Eudaimonic perspective describes well- being in terms of optimal functioning. These
models of well-being are based on research on western adult population. The current
study aimed to explore how Adolescents conceptualize “Well-Being”. 20 adolescents in
the age group 12-17 years were recruited for this study. 10 participants were recruited
from the community and the other 10 from the psychiatric hospital setting (NIMHANS,
OPD). The participants were recruited through convenience sampling method. Semistructured interview was administered telephonically to understand adolescent’s
perception of well-being and components of well-being after obtaining consent from
parent and assent from adolescents. The information given by adolescents were
transcribed and analysed. Directed qualitative content analysis was used to interpret
the information. Sample as whole is considered for analysis as there were no significant
differences between the participants in both groups. The findings from the analysis
indicate adolescents view well-being from both hedonic and eudaimonic perspective.
The findings of the present study may help developing a culturally appropriate well-being
intervention for adolescents.
This study was aimed to assess the relationship between employees’ attitude and
information security (InfoSec) performance in the Ethiopian, INSA context. Accordingly,
attitude was treated as the independent variable, while InfoSec performance was treated
as a dependent variable. A correlational research design was employed. A total of 320
participants were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. AIS and ISP
scales were administered to collect the quantitative data. Based on the suitability of the
data and research questions designed, both descriptive statistics such as percent and
frequency and inferential statistics such as independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson
Correlation, and regression data analysis methods were performed. Accordingly, the
present study revealed the following findings. First, employees InfoSec performance
significantly differed by their sex and educational levels. Second, attitude significantly
related to and predicted the employees’ InfoSec performance. Based on the findings of
the study some recommendations are forwarded for different stakeholders
.