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4102.3 A study of self-control on preshool children, Feng-qin Ding, The educational academy
of Ningxia University, China
The present study investigated 284 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds’ behavior of self-control. The results
indicate that the factors which influence preschool children’s self-control are sex, background of
family, parent’s educational style, parent’s educated level, stage of age. Among these factors,
every factor has it’s different level, every two level has extremely obvious difference and get to
0.01 level. These findings suggest that we must pay attention to preschool children’s education
and take effective measures for different preschool children in our family and our school.
4102.4 Prevalence of behavioural problems among school age children, Pushpa
Mudalingammanar, Pushpa Khadi, College of Rural Home Science, University of AGricultural
Sciences, Dharwad-580 005, Karnataka, India
Prevalence of behavioural problems ranged from 12.31-17.64%. About 50-80% had externalising
problems and prevalence was more among boys. Boys from Government and Aided schools had
high level of externalising problems, while girls had high level of internalising problems. Learning
problems were high among boys. Older children had significantly more of impulsive problems
than younger children. Children from nuclear families had higher levels of psychosocial problems
and were significantly higher on externalising problems. The psychosocial, demographic and
socio-economic factors brought about a variation of 33% in externalising & 32% in internalising
problems. Mother’s education significantly reduced the learning problems among children.
4103 ORAL
Industrial/organizational psychology
Chair: M. Eduarda Duarte, Portugal
4103.1 Career satisfaction: Does responsibility for one’s own career make a difference? Babette
Raabe 1 , Michael Frese 2 , 1 Siemens AG, Germany, 2 University of Giessen, Germany
Today in many organizations the responsibility for career progress is up to the individual.
However, it has not always been this way. In the mid-nineties a large German technology company
started to train employees to take over more responsibility for their own career development. This
study investigated employee attitudes, organizational career management, income increase, and
career satisfaction of 100 employees who participated in this career management training.
Perceived responsibility for one’s own career predicted employees' career satisfaction over and
above income increase and organizational career management.
4103.2 Effectiveness of Digital Leadership in Managing Challenges thrown by Information
Technology revolution, Rishabh Anand Sharma, India
The world has become a global village. Global competition has forced leaders to recognize that if
they and their organizations are to survive, they will have to learn to manage and to think very
differently. Crossborder expansion slowly but steadily is assuming it's importance as an inexorable
business strategy fertilized by information technology (I.T.) revolution. Present paper focuses that
the key to digital leadership is to do right things correctly and turbocharge the original leadership
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