Modern Social Life and Mental Health
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Title
Modern Social Life and Mental Health
Subject
Mental Health
Social Life
Society
Description
Indian society today is a society in transition. The age-old misconception that the Indian economy is predominantly rural is now eroding. It is true that one's village culture, community, caste, and familial ties still majorly impact the average Indian's way of life. However, due to both the ‘push' and ‘pull' forces of migration, the former, over time, have become more and more amalgamated with urbane and metropolitan influences stemming from, among others, the mass proliferation of white-collar jobs and the explosion of social media platforms. This hybridization of schemas often causes cognitive dissonance for a said individual in multiple facets of his/her personal and/or professional life. Since industry and service sector jobs are majorly concentrated in urban areas of the country, this individual now has an entirely new set of psycho-social adjustment problems to deal with. Another reason for why the work-life of India is drastically different from that of other countries is that organizations in India, at least the well-established ones, often have two to three generations working simultaneously, which combined with the rapidly growing average life-expectancy; thanks to cheap quality public health-care, which is estimated to increase to four to five generations shortly. The major problem to be expected by the future, and even to an extent, current HR managers is that multiple generations profess dramatically different superegos and/or value systems.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3873964
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3873964
Creator
Pestonjee, D.M.
Pastakia, Taronish
Source
Liberal Studies; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019): July-December 2019; 157-167
2688-9374
2455-9857
Publisher
Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Date
2019-12-31
Rights
Copyright (c) 2019 Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Collection
Citation
D Pestonjee.M. and Taronish Pastakia, Modern Social Life and Mental Health, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, 2019, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/575