E P Abdul Azeez
Biographic Data
| ID | 111284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E P Abdul Azeez |
| GIVEN NAMES | E P Abdul |
| FAMILY NAME | Azeez |
| SIGNATURE | AZEEZ E P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vellore Institute of Technology University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4627-6550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women's encounters with street sexual harassment in India
Street sexual harassment (SSH) is a global public health and gender inequality problem. It appears in many forms, disproportionately affecting young girls and women in public places, but scholarship lacks a comprehensive understanding of women's SSH experiences, especially in India. This study examined young women's experiences and perspectives of SSH in Southern India. A photovoice qualitative method was employed to collect data from 19 young wo…
Health perception and consideration of future consequences as predictors of healthy lifestyle behaviors among young adults in India
Purpose Understanding and promoting healthy lifestyle practices has been a pressing need of the hour, given the rising cases of non-communicable diseases globally. Although the concept of a healthy lifestyle has been a part of the literature for decades, a significant gap remains in understanding the psychological factors that determine a healthy lifestyle among the non-patient population in developing nations, such as India. Considering this, th…
Cognitive impairment among widowed older adults in India
Various physiological, psychological, and social changes accompany the process of aging. Widowhood, a significant life event, can profoundly influence the well-being of older adults. The loss of a spouse often leads to emotional distress, social isolation, and increased health risks. Therefore, the present study tried to explore the gender gap using decomposition analysis to understand the influence of duration of widowhood, psychosocial factors,…
Women in exchange ( Atta-satta) marriage
Purpose Atta-satta is a system in which two families exchange brides: the first family's bride marries a groom from the second family, and the second family's bride marries a groom from the first family. Though this practice is socioculturally rooted and has a significant impact on women's lives, evidence on the experiences of women in Atta-satta marriages is limited. This qualitative study aims to explore the tradition of Atta-satta marriage in …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Self-Perceived Success among Young Indian Adults
The Association of Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences with Grit Among Gen Z
Grit is important to experiencing success and is shaped through several childhood experiences. However, the association of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) to grit is underexplored, especially through emotional regulation. Hence, this study examined the association between ACEs, BCEs, emotional regulation, and grit. Further, we investigated the mediating role of emotional regulation between (a) ACEs…
A specialized training program enhances university students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices on volunteering
The decreasing involvement of youth in voluntary practices necessitates training and mobilizing them for voluntary activities. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop and test the efficacy of a culture-sensitive training program on enhancing knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of volunteering among university students in Oman. We adopted a quasi-experimental design with a pre-post-test on the KAP of volunteering and designed a specializ…
Qualitative research in Indian postgraduate psychology and social work programmes
Although gaining prominence in recent years, the qualitative research paradigm appears less taught and minimally employed across disciplines. In this context, the present study attempted to understand whether the Indian postgraduate psychology and social work programmes adequately covered qualitative research content in their curriculum. In addition, we explored the experiences and perspectives of graduates on the curriculum and learning qualitat…
Research Productivity and Publishing Trends in Publicly Funded Social Work and Psychology Schools in India
There is a growing emphasis on research across disciplines, and higher educational institutions’ research productivity (RP) is a matter of serious consideration. However, a knowledge gap exists in RP in social science disciplines in India. In this context, the present study aimed to (1) understand the RP of social work and psychology schools at publicly funded central universities (CU) in India, (2) evaluate the RP and research impacts of faculty…
Resilience and hopelessness mediate the relationship between benevolent childhood experiences and life satisfaction
Despite differences between countries, BCEs are important predictors of adult well-being in all three countries and should be monitored along with ACE. Further, resilience seems to have an important role in lowering the negative consequences of lower BCEs and feelings of hopelessness, pointing to the need to strengthen psychological resilience among adults
The black is going”
Purpose The present study explored the young women's lived experiences of discrimination and othering based on skin tone in two rural localities of Uttarakhand , State of India. The authors used intersectionality as the theoretical lens for this study. Design/methodology/approach The authors have adopted an interpretive phenomenological study in the conduct of this research. The authors interviewed twelve female participants in person using a sem…
Association of psychosocial factors with sleep quality among aging adults in India
Women’s health inequalities in 15 Muslim-populated countries
In this study, we examined health inequalities and the status of women as evidenced in the patterns of population and mortality statistics in fifteen Muslim-populated countries. Based on WHO data, female-to-male ratios were calculated to determine differential gender ratios of population and mortality, using Western gender patterns as a baseline. The socioeconomic contexts of the analysis were the percentage of women in parliaments data by OECD a…
Why do they decide to stay? Experience of Indian women surviving intimate partner violence
Purpose Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent public health issue impacting women’s physical and mental health and psychosocial walks of life across cultures and societies. Despite this, many women continue to stay in such relationships. This study aims to examine, from a constructionist perspective, why women stay in abusive marriages and what factors prevent them from taking appropriate actions. Also, women’s experiences of surviving I…
Life after him was just hell”
This phenomenological study was conducted in rural Rajasthan, India, to explore young widows' lived experiences. On receipt of written informed consent, we interviewed 14 young widows. The data were analyzed in an idiographic style using the interpretive phenomenological approach. The perspective of loss and sociocultural contexts grounded the analysis. Six themes emerged corresponding to the women's widowhood experiences: becoming a widow; entan…
No Means No’
Development projects, primarily hydroelectric power projects, are considered viable renewable energy sources and contribute to sustaining the economy at large. However, it has been contested over excessive exploitation and appropriation of environment and ecology. Such development models have been challenged worldwide for threatening human survival degrading ecology and the environment. Hydroelectric development in the geographically fragile regi…
You people have brought the virus here
Racial discrimination is a common phenomenon against the northeastern people of India on the mainland. They are prejudiced and othered mainly because of their very identity-mongoloid features-and by assuming their Chinese affiliations. The outbreak of COVID-19 has exacerbated discrimination, violence, and othering across the globe. The case of northeasterners living in the mainland of India is not different either. Racial discrimination and the o…
The Customary Practice of Nata Pratha in Rajasthan, India
Nata Pratha is one of the unique customs prevalent in some states of India. It is a practice in which two persons can enter into a relationship similar to marriage without any legal and religious/social obligation by getting a divorce from existing marriage or otherwise. The practice involves monetary dealing in which a bride price is usually paid to the woman or her parents or previous husband by the new groom. Conceptually, Nata Pratha looks pr…
Caste in contemporary Bollywood movies
Caste, an integral part of the Indian social system, has extensively influenced all walks of life. The media is not an exception for the persuasion of caste. The depiction of caste as a social reality is central to Indian cinema since its early years. However, there is a lack of studies examining the depiction of the caste system in mainstream Bollywood movies. In the present study, we have critically analyzed mainstream commercial Bollywood movi…
Forced to Choose’
The Korku Tribe of Melghat Region in India and Their Current State
This article is an attempt to document the perturbing socioeconomic and developmental issues of the Korku tribe, one of the most deprived tribal populations found in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, India. The article is a product of extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 10 villages of Melghat region of Maharashtra for a period of 1 year. A close examination was done on the life, lifestyles, and the socioeconomic and developme…
What determines the sustainability of community‐based palliative care operations? Perspectives of the social work professionals
The palliative care services are least operational in India with exception to the State of Kerala where the movement is widespread. Kerala's model of palliative care is known for its community‐based approach and efforts in universalizing the access. This model is unique in the domains of sustainability and mode of interventions. Cognate to the palliative care interventions worldwide, social workers play a crucial role in the service delivery of p…
Graduation from Poverty and Deprivation
Rajnats of Rajasthan and the Sex Work
Rajnat community of Rajasthan was a nomadic tribe (now included in the category of Scheduled Castes), who previously engaged themselves as singers, dancers, street players and the entertainers of kings, zamindars and their subjects. However, after the dissolution of monarchy in Rajasthan and the collapse of zamindari system, Rajnats were left landless and jobless but later embraced commercial sex work. This resulted in the vulnerability, deprivat…
Rajnats of Rajasthan and the Sex Work
Rajnat community of Rajasthan was a nomadic tribe (now included in the category of Scheduled Castes), who previously engaged themselves as singers, dancers, street players and the entertainers of kings, zamindars and their subjects. However, after the dissolution of monarchy in Rajasthan and the collapse of zamindari system, Rajnats were left landless and jobless but later embraced commercial sex work. This resulted in the vulnerability, deprivat…
Why do they decide to stay? Experience of Indian women surviving intimate partner violence
Purpose Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent public health issue impacting women’s physical and mental health and psychosocial walks of life across cultures and societies. Despite this, many women continue to stay in such relationships. This study aims to examine, from a constructionist perspective, why women stay in abusive marriages and what factors prevent them from taking appropriate actions. Also, women’s experiences of surviving I…
Life after him was just hell”
This phenomenological study was conducted in rural Rajasthan, India, to explore young widows' lived experiences. On receipt of written informed consent, we interviewed 14 young widows. The data were analyzed in an idiographic style using the interpretive phenomenological approach. The perspective of loss and sociocultural contexts grounded the analysis. Six themes emerged corresponding to the women's widowhood experiences: becoming a widow; entan…
You people have brought the virus here
Racial discrimination is a common phenomenon against the northeastern people of India on the mainland. They are prejudiced and othered mainly because of their very identity-mongoloid features-and by assuming their Chinese affiliations. The outbreak of COVID-19 has exacerbated discrimination, violence, and othering across the globe. The case of northeasterners living in the mainland of India is not different either. Racial discrimination and the o…
Caste in contemporary Bollywood movies
Caste, an integral part of the Indian social system, has extensively influenced all walks of life. The media is not an exception for the persuasion of caste. The depiction of caste as a social reality is central to Indian cinema since its early years. However, there is a lack of studies examining the depiction of the caste system in mainstream Bollywood movies. In the present study, we have critically analyzed mainstream commercial Bollywood movi…
What determines the sustainability of community‐based palliative care operations? Perspectives of the social work professionals
The palliative care services are least operational in India with exception to the State of Kerala where the movement is widespread. Kerala's model of palliative care is known for its community‐based approach and efforts in universalizing the access. This model is unique in the domains of sustainability and mode of interventions. Cognate to the palliative care interventions worldwide, social workers play a crucial role in the service delivery of p…
Rajnats of Rajasthan and the Sex Work
Rajnat community of Rajasthan was a nomadic tribe (now included in the category of Scheduled Castes), who previously engaged themselves as singers, dancers, street players and the entertainers of kings, zamindars and their subjects. However, after the dissolution of monarchy in Rajasthan and the collapse of zamindari system, Rajnats were left landless and jobless but later embraced commercial sex work. This resulted in the vulnerability, deprivat…
What determines the sustainability of community‐based palliative care operations? Perspectives of the social work professionals
The palliative care services are least operational in India with exception to the State of Kerala where the movement is widespread. Kerala's model of palliative care is known for its community‐based approach and efforts in universalizing the access. This model is unique in the domains of sustainability and mode of interventions. Cognate to the palliative care interventions worldwide, social workers play a crucial role in the service delivery of p…
Graduation from Poverty and Deprivation
The Korku Tribe of Melghat Region in India and Their Current State
This article is an attempt to document the perturbing socioeconomic and developmental issues of the Korku tribe, one of the most deprived tribal populations found in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, India. The article is a product of extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 10 villages of Melghat region of Maharashtra for a period of 1 year. A close examination was done on the life, lifestyles, and the socioeconomic and developme…
The Customary Practice of Nata Pratha in Rajasthan, India
Nata Pratha is one of the unique customs prevalent in some states of India. It is a practice in which two persons can enter into a relationship similar to marriage without any legal and religious/social obligation by getting a divorce from existing marriage or otherwise. The practice involves monetary dealing in which a bride price is usually paid to the woman or her parents or previous husband by the new groom. Conceptually, Nata Pratha looks pr…
Caste in contemporary Bollywood movies
Caste, an integral part of the Indian social system, has extensively influenced all walks of life. The media is not an exception for the persuasion of caste. The depiction of caste as a social reality is central to Indian cinema since its early years. However, there is a lack of studies examining the depiction of the caste system in mainstream Bollywood movies. In the present study, we have critically analyzed mainstream commercial Bollywood movi…
Forced to Choose’
No Means No’
Development projects, primarily hydroelectric power projects, are considered viable renewable energy sources and contribute to sustaining the economy at large. However, it has been contested over excessive exploitation and appropriation of environment and ecology. Such development models have been challenged worldwide for threatening human survival degrading ecology and the environment. Hydroelectric development in the geographically fragile regi…
You people have brought the virus here
Racial discrimination is a common phenomenon against the northeastern people of India on the mainland. They are prejudiced and othered mainly because of their very identity-mongoloid features-and by assuming their Chinese affiliations. The outbreak of COVID-19 has exacerbated discrimination, violence, and othering across the globe. The case of northeasterners living in the mainland of India is not different either. Racial discrimination and the o…
Women’s health inequalities in 15 Muslim-populated countries
In this study, we examined health inequalities and the status of women as evidenced in the patterns of population and mortality statistics in fifteen Muslim-populated countries. Based on WHO data, female-to-male ratios were calculated to determine differential gender ratios of population and mortality, using Western gender patterns as a baseline. The socioeconomic contexts of the analysis were the percentage of women in parliaments data by OECD a…
Why do they decide to stay? Experience of Indian women surviving intimate partner violence
Purpose Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent public health issue impacting women’s physical and mental health and psychosocial walks of life across cultures and societies. Despite this, many women continue to stay in such relationships. This study aims to examine, from a constructionist perspective, why women stay in abusive marriages and what factors prevent them from taking appropriate actions. Also, women’s experiences of surviving I…
Life after him was just hell”
This phenomenological study was conducted in rural Rajasthan, India, to explore young widows' lived experiences. On receipt of written informed consent, we interviewed 14 young widows. The data were analyzed in an idiographic style using the interpretive phenomenological approach. The perspective of loss and sociocultural contexts grounded the analysis. Six themes emerged corresponding to the women's widowhood experiences: becoming a widow; entan…
Qualitative research in Indian postgraduate psychology and social work programmes
Although gaining prominence in recent years, the qualitative research paradigm appears less taught and minimally employed across disciplines. In this context, the present study attempted to understand whether the Indian postgraduate psychology and social work programmes adequately covered qualitative research content in their curriculum. In addition, we explored the experiences and perspectives of graduates on the curriculum and learning qualitat…
Research Productivity and Publishing Trends in Publicly Funded Social Work and Psychology Schools in India
There is a growing emphasis on research across disciplines, and higher educational institutions’ research productivity (RP) is a matter of serious consideration. However, a knowledge gap exists in RP in social science disciplines in India. In this context, the present study aimed to (1) understand the RP of social work and psychology schools at publicly funded central universities (CU) in India, (2) evaluate the RP and research impacts of faculty…
Resilience and hopelessness mediate the relationship between benevolent childhood experiences and life satisfaction
Despite differences between countries, BCEs are important predictors of adult well-being in all three countries and should be monitored along with ACE. Further, resilience seems to have an important role in lowering the negative consequences of lower BCEs and feelings of hopelessness, pointing to the need to strengthen psychological resilience among adults
The black is going”
Purpose The present study explored the young women's lived experiences of discrimination and othering based on skin tone in two rural localities of Uttarakhand , State of India. The authors used intersectionality as the theoretical lens for this study. Design/methodology/approach The authors have adopted an interpretive phenomenological study in the conduct of this research. The authors interviewed twelve female participants in person using a sem…
Association of psychosocial factors with sleep quality among aging adults in India
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Self-Perceived Success among Young Indian Adults
The Association of Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences with Grit Among Gen Z
Grit is important to experiencing success and is shaped through several childhood experiences. However, the association of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) to grit is underexplored, especially through emotional regulation. Hence, this study examined the association between ACEs, BCEs, emotional regulation, and grit. Further, we investigated the mediating role of emotional regulation between (a) ACEs…
A specialized training program enhances university students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices on volunteering
The decreasing involvement of youth in voluntary practices necessitates training and mobilizing them for voluntary activities. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop and test the efficacy of a culture-sensitive training program on enhancing knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of volunteering among university students in Oman. We adopted a quasi-experimental design with a pre-post-test on the KAP of volunteering and designed a specializ…
Health perception and consideration of future consequences as predictors of healthy lifestyle behaviors among young adults in India
Purpose Understanding and promoting healthy lifestyle practices has been a pressing need of the hour, given the rising cases of non-communicable diseases globally. Although the concept of a healthy lifestyle has been a part of the literature for decades, a significant gap remains in understanding the psychological factors that determine a healthy lifestyle among the non-patient population in developing nations, such as India. Considering this, th…
Cognitive impairment among widowed older adults in India
Various physiological, psychological, and social changes accompany the process of aging. Widowhood, a significant life event, can profoundly influence the well-being of older adults. The loss of a spouse often leads to emotional distress, social isolation, and increased health risks. Therefore, the present study tried to explore the gender gap using decomposition analysis to understand the influence of duration of widowhood, psychosocial factors,…
Women in exchange ( Atta-satta) marriage
Purpose Atta-satta is a system in which two families exchange brides: the first family's bride marries a groom from the second family, and the second family's bride marries a groom from the first family. Though this practice is socioculturally rooted and has a significant impact on women's lives, evidence on the experiences of women in Atta-satta marriages is limited. This qualitative study aims to explore the tradition of Atta-satta marriage in …
Women's encounters with street sexual harassment in India
Street sexual harassment (SSH) is a global public health and gender inequality problem. It appears in many forms, disproportionately affecting young girls and women in public places, but scholarship lacks a comprehensive understanding of women's SSH experiences, especially in India. This study examined young women's experiences and perspectives of SSH in Southern India. A photovoice qualitative method was employed to collect data from 19 young wo…
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