scholarly journals Relationship between Peer Victimization, Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shraddha Pol ◽  
Jennifer Chandani
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
Age Range

Peer victimization includes being bullied and experiences of being the target of physical, social, emotional, or psychological harm from a peer. Personal growth initiative is an individual’s will to change, develop and evolve as a person. Perceived social support refers to how an individual perceives the support or the encouragement that he gets from his/her society, friends and others. Thus, the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between Peer victimization, Personal growth initiative (PGI) and Perceived social support among adolescents. The population for this study consisted of 100 participants, males and females both between the age range of 13-19 years. The statistical analysis used was Pearson’s product moment correlation. The findings revealed significant negative relationship between Peer Victimization and Personal Growth Initiative (r= -0.31, p< 0.01) and a significant positive relationship between Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support (r= 0.50, p< 0.01).However, no significant relationship was found between Peer Victimization and Perceived Social Support. (r= -0.18, n.s).

scholarly journals Relationship between Peer Victimization, Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Ms. Shraddha Pol ◽  
Ms. Jennifer Chandani
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
Age Range

Peer victimization includes being bullied and experiences of being the target of physical, social, emotional, or psychological harm from a peer. Personal growth initiative is an individual’s will to change, develop and evolve as a person. Perceived social support refers to how an individual perceives the support or the encouragement that he gets from his/her society, friends and others. Thus, the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between Peer victimization, Personal growth initiative (PGI) and Perceived social support among adolescents. The population for this study consisted of 100 participants, males and females both between the age range of 13-19 years. The statistical analysis used was Pearson’s product moment correlation. The findings revealed significant negative relationship between Peer Victimization and Personal Growth Initiative (r= -0.31, p< 0.01) and a significant positive relationship between Personal Growth Initiative and Perceived Social Support (r= 0.50, p< 0.01).However, no significant relationship was found between Peer Victimization and Perceived Social Support. (r= -0.18, n.s).

scholarly journals Social Support and a Sense of Purpose: The Role of Personal Growth Initiative and Academic Self-Efficacy

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingxue Cai ◽  
Rong Lian
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

Objective: Studies have consistently found a positive relationship between social support and a sense of purpose; however, less is known about the underlying mechanisms of this relationship. The present study bridges this gap by proposing and testing a path model illustrating the mediating effects of personal growth initiative and academic self-efficacy on the linkage between social support and a sense of purpose.Method: A total of 2,085 Chinese college students completed the revised versions of the Social Support, Personal Growth Initiative, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Sense of Purpose Scales.Results: The results show that social support, personal growth initiative, and academic self-efficacy were all significantly associated with a sense of purpose. As predicted, personal growth initiative and academic self-efficacy mediated the relationship between social support and a sense of purpose, respectively. The results also support the hypothesized serial mediating effect.Conclusion: Individuals who feel more social support have a higher level of personal growth initiative, their academic self-efficacy is stronger, and their academic self-efficacy further enhances their sense of purpose. Additionally, comparisons among the three indirect effects indicated that the effect of personal growth initiative was significantly greater than those of the other two measures. Thus, it can be concluded that personal initiative plays a greater role in enhancing a sense of purpose. These findings not only help to understand how social support enhances the sense of purpose, but also provide insight into the underlying mechanism.

scholarly journals Translation and Validation of Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II for Pakistani Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-674
Author(s):  
Sadia Zaman ◽  
Irum Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Readiness For Change ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Intentional Behavior ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Translation And Validation

Personal growth initiative is a person's active and intentional involvement in changing and developing as a person. Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II (PGIS-II; Robitschek et al., 2012) provides evidence of multidimensionality of construct of personal growth. Present research was accomplished in three phases with aim to translate and validate PGIS-II in Urdu. Phase 1 addressed the translation of measure through forward-backward translation method. To establish the cross-language validity, translated and the English version was administered on bilingual university students (N = 100). Reliability of both versions was determined by computing test-retest technique with 15 days interval. Phase-2 was aimed to establish the construct validity by carrying out. Exploratory Factor Analysis on adult women (N = 300) with age range of 21 to 52 years. Results showed four factors namely, Planfulness, Readiness for Change, Intentional Behavior, and Using Resources are reflection of personal growth initiative. Phase-3 of the research was aimed to confirm the factorial validity on sample of women (N = 300) with age range from 19 to 50 years. Findings confirmed four factor solutions and suggested that PGIS-II Urdu version can be utilized as a valid and reliable measure for the assessment of personal growth initiative among adults in Pakistan.

Enhancing personal growth initiative

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan A. Martinez ◽  
Daria Roumiantseva ◽  
Nathaniel Geiger ◽  
Rhea Ponder
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Growth Initiative

scholarly journals Perception of Psycho-Social School Environment, Personal Growth Initiative and Fear of Failure among EAMCET Aspirants

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Nandini Sanyal ◽  
Tina Fernandes ◽  
Zaina Hazari
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Intermediate Students ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Important Others ◽  
Growth Initiative

<div><p><em>The objective of the present study is to investigate whether there is a relationship between perception of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure in intermediate students. The study also aimed to observe whether there are gender differences between students going to colleges (viz. with EAMCET coaching and without EAMCET coaching) in terms of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure in intermediate students. The School Environment Inventory (Misra, 1984), the Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II (Robitschek et al., 2012) and the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (Conroy et. al., 2002) were administered on 300 intermediate students (150 boys and 150 girls) selected through a non-probability purposive sampling technique to measure the perception of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure respectively. The results indicated significant gender differences between the students going to colleges with coaching and the students going to colleges without coaching with respect to perception of psycho-social school environment and personal growth initiative (p&lt;0.05). However, no significant gender differences were observed in fear of failure and its dimensions (p&gt;0.05). Among students going to colleges with coaching negative correlations were observed between rejection, fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment  and personal growth initiative, moreover in this group, creative stimulation, cognitive encouragement and permissiveness (p&lt;0.05) were positively correlated with using resources and negatively correlated with fears of important others losing interest (p&lt;0.05). Also personal growth initiative was positively correlated with fears of upsetting important others and cognitive encouragement (p&lt;0.05) in students going to colleges without coaching. The present study reiterates that perception of school environment by students is of paramount importance in promoting or hindering the student’s personal growth initiative and subsequently their fear of failure.</em></p></div>

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