http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/53 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:38:32 GMT 2026-04-07T21:38:32Z http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/1078 Mental Health of Parents of Autistic Children in Relation to Education, Income and Employment Status Kayesh, Kazi Imrul Autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder in children, demands special attention from the parents and caregivers of the children with special needs than that of non-autistic children. It is always difficult for parents to ensure proper management of everything necessary for their children, and in case of autistic children, the efforts are higher and uniquely pressurizing, for they are to systemize their lives and adjust activities in special ways of both for their children’s lives and of their own to avoid any possible psychological disturbances. The present study was designed to examine the mental health of parents of autistic children in relation to education, income, and employment status. The cross-sectional survey design was used to conduct the study upon a total of 534 parents (number of parents with autistic children = 284, number of parents with non-autistic children = 250), selected purposively from different districts of Rajshahi division, Bangladesh. Anxiety Measuring Questionnaire, Depression Measuring Questionnaire, an adapted version of Life Stress Measuring Questionnaire, and a Personal Information Form (PIF) were administered to collect data; all questionnaires were used in their respective Bangla versions. In the course of the research, six objectives were set to investigate the mental health of parents with autistic children. The results had revealed that there were significant differences in anxiety, depression, and stress between parents of the autistic children and the non-autistic children. Results stated that there was a significant difference between fathers and mothers of autistic children in case of anxiety, depression, and stress. In addition, the study reported that parents with postgraduate degrees have higher mental health than graduate and undergraduate parents and similarly, parents who have graduated are found having a higher mental health than under graduate parents. The study also showed that in case of stress, parents from high income group expressed lower levels of stress than the parents from medium and low-income groups. Similarly, the parents from medium income group showed lower stress levels than the parents from low-income group. Furthermore, the results indicated that there were no significant differences in anxiety, depression, and stress in terms of the employment status of the parents of autistic children. Finally, the findings of this study alluded different interaction effects. For instance, an unemployed mother expressed more anxiety and depression than that of an employed mother. In addition, both postgraduate fathers and mothers expressed lower levels of depression than the graduate and undergraduate fathers and mothers. This Thesis is Submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/1078 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/918 Family Structure, Residential Background and Adjustment of the Students of Rajshahi University as Related to their Achievement Motivation Shirin, Anjuman The present study was designed to investigate whether achievement motivation (of Rajshahi University students) was related to their family structure, residential background and adjustment. Two psychological tests--­the adapted Bengali version of the Bell Adjustment Inventory (BAI; Frank; 1986) and the Achievement Motivation Scale (AMS; Afsaruddin, 1987) were administered on a sample of 300 students of 1st year Honours of Rajshahi University. They were divided into 4 groups such as (I) nuclear family and joint family groups; (2) rural and urban groups; (3) high and low adjusted groups and (4) the male and the female subject groups…………………… This Thesis is Submitted to the Department of Mathematics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/918 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/789 The Effect of Meditation by Quantum Method on Subjective Well-Being of the People of Bangladesh Siddiki, Md. Mashudul Haq The present study was designed to investigate The Effect of Meditation by Quantum Method on Subjective Well-being (SWB) of the People of Bangladesh. A total of 307 respondents were used as subject in the study. They have a wide variety of age range, professional identity and educational background. They were from different places of Bangladesh. Repeated Measurement design was employed in this study. A Bangla adaption of short version of the Subjective Well-being Questionnaire of Nagpal and Sell (1985) was used to measure the Subjective Well-being of the practitioners. The questionnaire measures eight dimensions of well-being. The overall well-being can also be measured. First, the Subjective Well-being questionnaire was administered on the subjects who came to participate in meditation course by Quantum Method. The questionnaire was again applied on the same subjects after the completion of the meditation course of forty hours · . duration. The subjects were again tested after practice of six months and also after practice of twelve months using the same questionnaire. The mean score of each respondent on each of the eight dimensions as well as overall scores were computed separately. In order to analyze the effect of independent variable comparisons were made among the four sets of the score by employing t- test. It was hypothesized that Meditation by Quantum Method increases the Subjective Well-being of the individual. In the results of the study the overall mean score of Subjective Well-being was found to decrease as a function of degree of practice of Meditation by Quantum Method. These findings suggest that the Subjective Well­being of the subjects increases as a function of degree of practice of Meditation by Quantum Method. Thus, the results of the study confirm the hypothesis. The Subjective Well-being score was also found to decline gradually as a function of degree of practice of meditation in case of seven dimensions of Subjective Well­being. These additional findings provide further support to the hypothesis. Thus from the results of the study it can be conclude that Meditation by Quantum Method increases the Subjective Well-being of its practitioners. This Thesis is Submitted to the Department of the Psychology University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/789 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/739 Relationship of National Development with Attitude towards Globalization and Personality factors of three Generations in Bangladesh Rahman, Md. Mostafizur The present study has attempted to investigate the relationship of national development with attitudinal variables of globalization in relation to open -closed mindedness, personality variables of IPC, and demographic factors of three generations in Bangladesh. For this purpose, the similarities and differences of attitudes towards globalization of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations in relation to national development attitudes, open-closed minded attitude, personality variables of IPC and socio-demographic factors within the framework of socio-cultural background have been investigated. The study has been developed in the theoretical framework of (1) Theoretical Approaches to Attitude, Social Change and National Development, (2) Theoretical Approaches to the Globalization, (3) Globalization and social change approach, (4) Modernism-Traditionalism attitude change approach, (5) Open mindedness-close mindedness attitudinal approach, (6) Rotters Expectancy-Reinforcement models of personality, (7) Theoretical Approaches to the Generational differences and (8) Demographic Approach. All these approaches have been utilized in order to show similarities and differences of attitudinal variables of globalization and national development of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations. The present study uses a multidimensional correlational approach with a criterion group design. The study was conducted on two phases. In the first phase, criterion groups of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations were selected on the basis of 'Generational Differences Criteria Questionnaire' (GDCQ) for measuring generation gap. The criterion group of each educational generation was further subdivided into gender, i.e., male, & female and residential background i.e., having urban & rural residential background on the basis of their responses to the questionnaires. The use of criterion group design has considerable advantage in highlighting the intergenerational differences among younger, middle aged, and older educational generations, as well as gender and residential background differences in relation to national development attitudes, attitude towards globalization and personality variables selected for the study. In the second phase, the criterion groups were given following measures: a) Attitude Towards Globalization (ATG) Scale b) National Development Attitude (NDA) Scale c) Open-Closed- minded Attitude (OCA) Scale and d) Levinson's IPC Scale. Demographic information included gender, residential background differences and criteria questionnaire. The present study used a sample characteristically divided into generation (younger, middle age and older), gender (male and female), and residential background (urban and rural). The respondents were the students and educationalists (younger and older teachers) of different educational institutions. They all were graduates. In this study, the sample was equally divided into younger, middle age and older generational groups on the basis of generational differences (N=160 for each group). Then they were equally divided into urban and rural on the basis of residential background (N=80 for each group). Again, each group was equally subdivided into male-female on the basis of gender (N=40 for each group). Thus, the study composed of total 480 respondents with three levels of generation, two levels of residence and two levels of gender (3X2X2). In this study, the respondents were purposively selected according to the research purpose……………………. This thesis is Submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://rulrepository.ru.ac.bd/handle/123456789/739 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z