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DRAFT COPY ( Logical programming will be made to access each link). Please give your comment.   HOME JOURNAL OF IAAP PUBLICATIONS YOUR LABORATORY CAREER JOB OPPORTUNITIES NEWSLETTER CONFERENCES DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS FIND YOUR PSYCHOLOGIST WORKSHOPS SEMINAR SYMPOSIUM MEETINGS TRAINING MEMBERSHIP FORM EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS IAAP AWARDS ETHICS PHOTO GALLERY USEFUL LINKS GUEST BOOK The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP) since its inception in 1962, is serving the Indian society through various professional activities . OBJECTIVES v To promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of Psychology and to promote the efficiency and usefulness of its members by setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge. v To arrange, provide for, or join in arranging and providing for the holding of conference

HISTORY The Executive council members of NAOP held on 10/12/2012 at Christ University, Bangalore decided to bring out theme based publication periodically. It also decided that each division should have at least one significant activity in a calendar year (during annual convention of NAOP). Each division may plan a symposium and call for papers in July, six months before the annual convention and publish theme as a book by a reputed publisher to ensure quality. The members bestowed responsibility of this division to  Debdulal Dutta Roy, as the Division Convener of Psychological Assessment. OBSERVATION The division convener observes the followings: 1. Dependency on foreign test materials.  2. Failure to tap Indian scenario in assessment of psychological construct. This happens due to overemphasis on psychological constructs conceptualized by the Non-Indians. 3. Over emphasis on hypothesis driven, experimentally controlled structured data rather on data driven, minimal co

Differential Validity indicates differential pattern of predictor criterion relation across sub-populations. Current study examined differential validity of computer programming r elated reasoning abilities. Items of five subtests were constructed earlier to assess five verbal abilities as similarities, anagram, syllogistic reasoning, data sufficiency and coding. In the 2012-13 session aims are to examine (a) psychometric properties of each subtest and to examine (b) differential pattern of reasoning across cross sections of students by sex, age, grade, community, religion, medium of learning. Data were collected from 622 boys and 372 girls of grades 8 th to 10 th of different communities by religion and caste. Test battery includes 60- items with four or five options.  Test items for lower order reasoning possessed moderate level of difficulty indices ranged from 46.86 to 64.42. And tests for higher order reasoning possessed high difficulty level. Almost 70% of total students perf

For long years, I devoted my self in research on Applied Psychology. Thank to Dr. Ishita Chatterjee of the  department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta for honoring me to Co-chair one technical session with Professor Arun Kumar Chatterjee, The chairperson on 14th April, 2013. I am thankful to Oidindrila and Debanjana for taking photo.

The World Bank report (1993) revealed that the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) loss due to neuro-psychiatric disorder is much higher than diarrhea, malaria, worm infestations and tuberculosis if taken individually.   Mental, neurological, and substance abuse (MNS) disorders account for an increasing proportion of the global burden of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) attributes to these disorders 14% of all of the world’s premature deaths and years lived with disability. 1  In addition to imposing high costs on the health system, mental and neurological disorders and substance abuse also lead to lost worker productivity, impaired functioning, personal stigma, caregiver burden on family members, and, in some instances, to human rights violations.  Ref:  http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/3/10-082784/en/ According to the estimates DALYs loss due to mental disorders are expected to represent 15% of the global burden of diseases by 2020. DALYs are calc