Browsing by Author "Gloriya, N.M."

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    The Effect of Gender Identity on Self-Esteem among Young Adults (Special Reference to Central Province)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2021) Gloriya, N.M.; Niroshini, S.
    Social identity is being recognized as perceived self-concept of an individual based on the social group that they are belong to. Favorable comparison between persons automatically increase the self- esteem of them. People always contemplate on the emotions of their relatives (in-group) and resisting the emotions of others (out-group). Even though the theory of social identity explains the positive side of the intergroup discrimination and biasness, it does not sufficiently represent the negative of them and the symmetry is missing. Further there are only a few researches has been undertaken on the influence gender has on self-esteem among young adults and the results obtained are not significant as well. Therefore, the study on effect of the gender difference on self-esteem among the young adults in central province is performed to examine whether the gender identity of a person affects his/her self-esteem. A quantitative study was conducted by using convenient sampling to collect the sample of 100 young adults from central province have been selected for the study and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used to get scores of the self-esteem. The major findings were statistically analyzed using tables and a graph using SPSS Statistics Data Editor. With the overall results it was observable that men had a good self-esteem than women. However, the results obtained were found to be insignificant according to the t-test conducted. Therefore, the study concludes with the idea that self-esteem is not influenced by the gender identity as supporting the previous findings. Keywords: Gender identity; Self-esteem; Social identity; Young adults
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    A Social Comparison of Does Happiness Increase with the Income?
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2021) Gloriya, N.M.; Niroshini, S.
    There are numerous psychologists found that there is a small income effects on individual happiness. It has always been a challenge to prove that happiness is positively correlated with money, as it is widely believed and argued that “money can‟t buy happiness”. Further previous scholars found out that more money is positively associated with greater happiness. Hence the research is a psychological evaluation attempts to disentangle the positive relationship between an individual‟s monthly income and happiness. A quantitative study has been undertaken using convenience sampling and data were collected from 100 working individuals between the age group of 25 and 35 providing Oxford Happiness Questionnaire to calculate the happiness level. Further descriptive, correlation analysis conducted to generate results and to identify the impact of income in happiness of an individual. The received responses were numerically valued and the happiness score was found to be increasing with the higher amount of monthly income. The results obtained proved that there is a significant positive relationship between monthly income and happiness of an individual. However, it is not a strong relationship. Therefore, it is concluded that people who earn more are slightly happier than the people who earn less. Keywords: Income effects; Individual happiness; Monthly income