I belong to a society where there is not much guidance about career availability and choices. What we hear since the beginning of our lives is that we can opt either of the 3 options for higher education: engineer, doctor or soldier. The only field that is deemed suitable for ladies is to become a doctor. Well, that's the mind set of the society. That’s stereotyping due to lack of awareness and knowledge of how vast the scope of education is.
Anyways, as a child and teenager I thought that it was only possible for me to become a doctor so I did my matric (10th grade) and intermediate (12th grade) with Biology, Chemistry and Physics as the optional.
Later, I realized that I didn’t want to go in the field of medicine neither my life circumstances were in favor of this. So, I decided to opt some other course for my graduation. Though I never studied it as academic curriculum by then yet I always had some affinity with the word “Psychology” and I opt this subject for my graduation.
“See in my eyes and tell me what I am thinking?”
“Tell me about my personality characteristics?”
“Tell me what kind of a person I am?”
“Tell if this person has a good intention or bad?”
When I used to tell me people that I was studying psychology, I had to encounter these and like questions. Ooooops! I wonder if psychology taught me some magic that I could read the eyes of people or could see people’s life in just a glance. Huuuuh.........! 🤨🤨
Yes, psychology gives us understanding of human behaviour but it is not done in a glance rather it works with scientific approach for every issue.
Psychology is such a vast field with a wide scope. It has its implications in industrial, social, group, family and personal lives.
It gives us the understanding of mechanisms working in several situations so that we may know how can we improve in particular areas. It helps us establishing correlational, and cause and effect relationship among various variables so that we may be predictive and can take preventive actions from harmful elements. For instance, psychological researches has established that the watching porn has a number of negative effects on emotional and physical well-being. Based on this knowledge we can understand that the dissatisfaction in real life of a porn watcher may be derived from this habit. The remedy, treatment and prevention becomes easy.
Like wise, psychological researches has demonstrated that people with higher gratitude experience higher happiness, higher satisfaction, better relationship, better health and resilience.
There are thousands of researches on hundred of variables related to human behavior and well being. Due to psychology in academics, we now know that these attributes are not the preaching of a spiritual or religious preacher, instead these are well-researched scientific facts. It gives us clear insight about what and what not should be inculcated in the life of an individual and in the society as whole.
There is a branch of psychology called as child psychology. It has given us a whole lot of information about child upbringing. It guides us how the environment and behavior of parents/significant others influences a child’s personality. Psychology has even established that the outer environment starts effecting a baby when it is in the womb of the mother. This information makes us able to develop an ideal environment for our generation.
The organizational/ industrial psychology gives us insight into what factors effect the growth of the organisation, how can an employee be satisfied and put his optimum efforts sincerely, which factors might contribute to the dissatisfaction or uneasiness of workers, how the harmony can be maintained at the work place etc etc.
People in the field of clinical psychology become counsellors and therapist. With their assistance , people can reach to the root cause of their problems and so can take steps to overcome them. They also help in treating various psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, phobia, drug addiction, there is a long list.
Psychology at the personal level makes oneself more consciously aware of one own self. In this way the person becomes more logical than being flown away with emotions. He can sense the negative impacts of various factors and can take steps to counter them. He can inculcate positive habits to make the most of his life.
In short, where there are humans, the psychology is at work. Using it effectively can help us counter the personal and social issues. In this way the society may be prosperous.
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