Gadchiroli Aug. 18 (District Correspondent) Mr. Amrit Bang, Project Director of ‘Nirman’, an initiative of SEARCH for the youths, participated in the World Conference organized by the International Positive Psychologists Association in Australia recently. Amrit presented two scientific posters in this conference on two topics, namely, the psyche of Indian youth and the ‘flourishing’ state of Indian youth.
As many as 600 researchers from all over the world participated in this conference held in Brisbane recently.
‘Nirman’ is an initiative working for the holistic personality development of youth. Padma Shri awardee Dr. Abhay and Dr. Rani Bang started this initiative. A scientific framework for personality development has been developed in this program. “This framework is called the flourishing framework, and this research has been done on the basis of it. Being able to present this research at the World Congress on Positive Psychology is a great success for ‘Nirman’,” said Amrit Bang. This research says that 61 percent of youth are facing the feeling of sadness and 43 percent of youth are facing the feeling of loneliness.
The field of positive psychology has been developing in the last few years. Prof. Martin Seligman is considered its father. Dr. Roy Baumeister, President of the International Positive Psychologists Association, and Prof. Tayyab Rashid of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University discussed with Amrit Bang. “Dr. Baumeister and Prof. Rashid have shown special interest in the role of positive psychology in the personality development of Indian youth,” said Amrit Bang.
