• Corpus ID: 201022169

Task-Oriented Strategies Of Slum Women In Everyday Lives

@inproceedings{Sharma2017TaskOrientedSO,
  title={Task-Oriented Strategies Of Slum Women In Everyday Lives},
  author={Swati Sharma},
  year={2017}
}

• Swati Sharma
• Published 2017
• Psychology

One can understand Psychological empowerment as any phenomenon over a lifespan which enables an individual to adapt to any existing environmental stressor, and respond to it, considering the overall long term reimbursement of his/her current decision making”. This indicates that a futuristic vision, and its affirmative consequences, before considering various alternatives which are available to one at present, during the process of decision making plays a vital role. This view further facilitates our understanding in the context of psychological empowerment and highlights the position of task oriented strategies as proposed by Endler and Parker and their theory on coping strategies, which involve obtaining information about stressful situation and about alternative courses of action and their probable outcome; it also involves deciding priorities and acting so, as to deal directly with the stressful situation. Task-oriented strategies functional by the slum women in Delhi can be used as a means to examine the process of psychological furtherance and psychological empowerment. It is also interesting, to note, here, that coping strategies functional among the slum women, exhibited in terms of their aspects of social self and real self, have been observed to be considerate of a futuristic vision, where when faced with challenges in their daily lives, their coping strategies, facilitate decision making based on the future recompense of existing choices. These choices are the paramount which enables one towards cognitions aimed at the selection of the best alternatives and plans of action in everyday lives. Based on this view, this study aims to propose that task-oriented strategies functional in everyday lives of slum women are a vital tool in context of examining psychological empowerment, as these coping strategies exhibit various aspects of social, personal and ideal self of these slum women , whose cognitive capacities manifest in various forms of psychological furtherance , i.e., a futuristic vision, consideration of a long term perspective , after the identification of existing and future possibilities, which resonates with their overt and covert behaviors. Finally, considering the scientific orientation of psychology, as a discipline, this study aims to validate its findings based on intensive observations and study of observable behavior of the participants in a naturalistic setting to maintain its ecological validity. Keywordsslum, psychological, empowerment, furtherance, cognition, task-oriented strategies