Studies in Applied Psychology : Asian Perspective

Contents: Preface. I. Educational instructional and school psychology: 1. Gender and nature of achievement differences in the relationships between creativity and academic achievement/Ananda Kumar Palaniappan. 2. EFL teachers mediation function in interactive classrooms/Cheng Xiongyong and Moses Samuel. 3. Effects of mothers work conditions on childrens school achievement comparison between Malay and Chinese mothers/Johari Talib. 4. Perception on acceleration and regular program of Bandung junior High Schools acceleration program student candidates/Fitri Ariyanti Abidin and Asteria Devy Kumalasari. 5. The relationship between religiosity and academic achievement among IIUMs students/Rezki Perdani Sawai, Joki Perdani Sawai and Sharon Kwan Sam Mee. 6. Relationship between internet usage and loneliness in Iranian High School students/Bahareh Rasouli Kalaee. 7. Learning strategies and cognitive styles revisited: a case study in Iran/Zahra Naimie, Saedah Siraj and Reihaneh Shagholi.  8. Best practices in gifted education programs for children aged 4 to 8 in Australia and New Zealand/Ong Dee Jean. II. Positive Psychology: 9. Spiritual values among adolescents/Akbar Husain. 10. Family functioning perceived social support academic performance and self esteem/Tam Cai Lian. 11. Positive psychological strengths social support and mentoring as the determinants of subjective well being/Aqeel Khan.  12. Big five factors of personality correlate of resilience and grit/Kamlesh Singh. III. Personality assessment: 13. Issues of psychological assessment and evaluation in the Asian perspective/Jimmy Chan. 14. The development and validation of the Ummatic personality inventory using principal component analysis/Nooraini Othman. 15. Positive and negative affect schedule PANAS: Malaysian perspective/Syed Sohail Imam, Noorhilmah Binte Mohammad Suhaimi, Nur Amira Binti Mohd. Zam and Roslina Abdul Rahman. IV. Psychology and social development: 16. Parenting stress in mothers of children with special needs/Zeenat Ismail and Amena Zehra Ali. 17. Impact of Malaysias development on emotional and mental strength: generating first class human capital/Siti Sarawati Bt. Johar and Mohd. Amin Zakaria. 18. Impact of selected TV programme on adolescents/Swaha Bhattacharya. 19. An intervention for the development of altruism among youth/P. Venkatammal. 20. Adolescents and internet sex addiction/Dini Farhana Baharudin and Mohd. Zaliridzal Zakaria. V. Work and organisational psychology: 21. Leadership and trust/Arif Hassan. 22. Indigenous work culture in Malaysia/Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman. 23. The conceptual relationship between organisational citizenship behaviour gender and academic success/Ang Magdalene Chooi Hwa, Huam Hon Tat and Syed Azizi Wafa. 24. Advertising and negative emotions/M. Khorvash and R. Khairudin. 25. A comparative study of private VS Public sector industries on organisational commitment/Bhupinder Singh and Sushila Venugopal. 26. Psychosocial characteristics determining entrepreneurial intentions/Malini Ratnasingam. 27. Personal and job related predictors of teacher stress and job performance among school teachers/Rubina Hanif and Sadaf Tariq. VI. Health psychology: 28. Educating for life adversities and challenges: mainstreaming trauma training in university and Professional training curriculum/Catherine so Kum Tang. 29. The effect of a physical fitness intervention program on cardiovascular endurance Muscular strength and flexibility/Shabeshan Rengasamy. 30. Working and studying : a marriage of inconvenience or Panacea for financial stress/Adewale Abideen Adeyemi. Index.

This book introduces to the students to six fields of Applied Psychology, educational instructional and school psychology positive psychology personality assessment psychology and social development work and organizational psychology and health psychology.

The theories models and methods that fall within each field of psychology are studied empirically so that the researchers builds an understanding of psychology as it applies to personality assessment and development social educational organizational and health behaviour.

The book covers the best application of current theories and researches conducted in Indian Indonesian Malaysian and Hong Kong samples. It has in depth coverage relating directly to todays researchers and demonstrating the application of new developments in various fields of Applied Psychology. (jacket)