PSYBERNEWS 5, 1, 2014

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Dear Readers,
    It gives me immense pleasure to announce that your favorite Psybernews has reached its fifth year, thanks to your continuous contribution and support. The journal always tries to cater your needs by incorporating insightful articles to satisfy your interest.
    With rapid changes in economic development and increase in aspiration level despite adequate mental faculties, crime rate is increasing. Legal professionals are in stress due to clearance of huge crime report. This can be prevented by good litigation prediction. The question is can psychologist play any role in litigation or in judiciary ? In the article on litigation prediction, you will find how personality traits make one successful in litigation prediction. Childhood Psychopathology is in rise. This volume gives you information about what childhood psychopathology is and its principal components. Rabindranath Tagore, the Noble laureate, wrote several universal values related to work setting. In an earlier issue, relationship between work values and job satisfaction was published. In this volume, you will find value convergence between genders.
     Psybernews regularly provides you set of research reviews. In this issue, you will find two reviews. One is about psychological determinants of hacking behavior. Another is about models of health behavior for management of diabetes. Psybernews also stresses on articles about research methods. In this issue, you will find how to maximize reliability of achievement test when responses are binary - right and wrong. The article on data cleaning provides new insight about several principles of cleaning random data.
    Recently National Academy of Applied Psychology organized their Annual conference. In one of the articles published in this issue, the abstracts of the conference were analyzed and research trends were identified. Analysis also shows distributions of different topics and identified the areas that received less importance in research.
    Finally, I am thankful to all the readers and editorial board members who voluntarily reviewed the articles. I am thankful to Prasad Psycho Corporation for publishing the journal. Please read the journal and give your valuable feedback. Enjoy Reading!!
D. Dutta Roy

Title of the paper: Role of Personality Traits in Litigation Prediction.

Author’s name: Amaleena Bose.

Introduction to author: Ms. Amaleena Bose is Senior Research and Project Associate in TTMS-PeopleProfit, an HR consulting firm. She has pursued her M.Sc in Applied Psychology with specialization in Organizational and Environmental Psychology from Calcutta University. Her areas of interest are test industrial psychology and measurement in psychology.
Abstract: Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make predictions based on which they make strategic decisions and/or advice their clients accordingly. Research on lawyers has revealed that successful lawyers tend to share some personality traits. This study investigates the role of personality traits (namely Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) in prediction of legal proceedings among lawyers. Neo – Five Factor Inventory (Form S), (Costa & McCrae, 1991) and Questionnaire for assessing success in litigation prediction (Loftus et. al, 2010) were administered on 80 male practicing lawyers in West Bengal. They predicted their goals for three hearings in an ongoing case. After three hearings, the outcomes of the hearings were compared with the predictions. Results suggest that Extraversion and Conscientiousness play significant role in causing successful litigation prediction. Key words: Personality Traits, litigation forecasts, predict case outcomes.
Date of Submission: November 28, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: December 22, 2014.

Title of the paper: Psychology in the wake of Hackers.

Author’s name: Urmita Chakroborty

Introduction to author: Ms Urmita Chakraborty is pursuing her PhD in clinical psychology from Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta. She is also working as a lecturer in psychology at HMM College for Women, Kolkata. Her research interest covers studying different communities, ego functions, anxiety and anger expression.
Abstract: Hackers are individuals who engage with computers, networking and communication technology. They bypass the computer security in different ways. This bypassing constitutes cyber crimes. The motive for the crimes they commit seems to be a reflection of their affiliation need. In this paper I have tried to discuss the various concepts related to hacking. Psychological theories have been taken into consideration to discuss the nature of hackers. Their behavioral problems have also been shown.
Key words: Hackers, Cyber Crime.
Date of Submission: August 08, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 20, 2014.

Title of the paper: Health Behavior Models and Adherence & Compliance to Diabetes Regimen.

Author’s name: Sravanti Adhikari, Debdulal DuttaRoy.

Introduction to author: Ms. Sravanti Adhikari is Research Fellow at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Abstract: This study discusses four health behavior models in explaining adherence and compliance to behaviors recommended in diabetes regimen. The models are Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, Self-Efficacy Theory and the Self- Regulatory Focus Theory. Finally it proposes key constructs of an integrated model which can help serve as a framework for designing tailor made intervention programs for diabetic patients.
Keywords: Diabetes, Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, Self-Efficacy Theory, Self- Regulatory Focus Theory.
Date of Submission: November 25, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 02, 2014.

Title of the paper: Factor Structure of Bengali Version Childhood psychopathology Measurement Schedule.

Author’s name: Aparna Ray, Dilip Kr. Mondal.

Introduction to author: Aparna Ray is presently working as a Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing, Medical College. She has 10 years teaching experience including P.G. course. She worked as an Inspector of Indian Nursing Council. She is the member of Board of Studies of WBUHS. Now she is doing PhD from WBUHS.
Dr. Dilip Kr. Mondal is the HOD & Professor at Dept. of Psychiatry, Medical College, Kolkata. He has published more than 20 papers in various journals. Abstract: Although it is widely accepted that children from early age suffer from a psychopathology disorder, but in Indian community what type of childhood problem present is not clearly understood. This cross sectional study investigated the childhood problem through analysis of factor structure of Bengali Version Childhood Psychopathology Measurement Schedule (CPMS). CPMS were administered to the parents of 1000 children of the age group 4-14 years, from pediatric OPD after randomization. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation extracted two factors namely, behavior and emotional problems.
Key words: Child Psychopathology.
Date of Submission: January 02, 2014.
Date of Acceptance: January 28, 2014.

Title of the paper: Gender and Rabindrik Work Value Orientation

Author’s name: Debdulal DuttaRoy, Suhina Bhaduri.
Introduction to author: Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Ms. Suhina Bhaduri has completed Masters in Applied Psychology. Her area of research is Human Resource Management.
Abstract: Value is an enduring belief that have specific mode of conduct and end state of existence Preference to values is hierarchical in nature. Dutta Roy and Bandopadhay (2010) by analysis of the script of Reverend Rabindranath Tagore’s songs identified 14 path and 14 goal oriented work values. Path-oriented work values are specific conducts to achieve the end or work goal. The path- oriented work values are instrumental to goal oriented values. Rabindrik work values are based on self -awakening principles in work setting rather extrinsic factors like incentives, promotion etc. Current study examined value convergence between genders. Data were collected by value questionnaire from 91 female and 57 male respondents working in different occupations. Results show that most of the values are converged between genders.
Keywords: Work values, Value convergence and divergence.
Date of Submission: December 02, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 12, 2014.

Title of the paper: Analysis of Conference Abstracts: XXIII Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), 2013.

Author’s name: Sumona Datta.

Introduction to author: Ms. Sumona Datta is Junior Research Fellow at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Abstract: The National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) recently organized a National Conference on “Psychology in the Service of Humanity: Theory, Technology and Applications” at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. A total of 249 abstracts were presented in 10 different subfields of Psychology. Other than the oral presentations, 15 abstracts were presented in the form of posters. The conference also included 10 symposiums on different sub themes where a total of 44 abstracts were presented. The chief emphasis was given on Health Psychology (59 abstracts) followed by Social Psychology (43 abstracts) and Organizational Psychology (41 abstracts). The aim of the present study is to analyze the abstracts presented in the NAOP Conference 2013 so that the current issues in Psychology can be focused.
Keywords: NAOP, Conference Analysis.
Date of Submission: December 26, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 04, 2014.

Title of the paper: Data Cleaning in Psycho-Informatics Research.

Author’s name: Anurupa Kundu, Debdulal DuttaRoy.

Introduction to author: Ms. Anurupa Kundu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Abstract: Background: One of the important areas in Psycho-informatics is data cleaning, as psycho-informatics includes non-hypothetical and non-experimentally controlled data. Data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) the irrelevant, incomplete, inaccurate records from a database. Researcher collects the data from data reservoir wherein large numbers of irrelevant data are mixed with the relevant ones, which is of researchers’ interest. Purpose: To discuss data cleaning process in psycho-informatics research. Method: Discussion pertains to data cleaning before and during data mining. Before data mining, data cleaning process is done through inclusion and exclusion criteria. While, during data mining it occurs through statistical modelling like outlier detection. Implication: This discussion will be helpful to get reliable and valid information for research.
Keywords: Psychoinformatics, Data cleaning, Data mining.
Date of Submission: December 14, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 10, 2014.

Title of the paper: Maximizing Reliability of Rational Equivalence.

Author’s name: Parama Gupta, Debdulal DuttaRoy.

Introduction to author: Ms. Parama Gupta is working as Project Linked Person at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She has done M.Sc. in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, University Of Calcutta in the year 2012.
Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Abstract: Reliability is an important component for any psychological assessment tool. Reliability enhances validity of the test. For the test with genuinely dichotomized response category maximization of reliability coefficient is more challenging. This study aims at maximizing reliability of one genuinely dichotomized reasoning test. Data were collected from 85 students through test of similarity reasoning. Result show increase in reliability coefficient of rational equivalence when the distracting items were removed from the model. Point biserial coefficient correlation was used to find out the distracting items.
Keywords: Reliability, reasoning test, rational equivalence.
Date of Submission: December 24, 2013.
Date of Acceptance: January 18, 2014.