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Journal Article 1

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Topic 1: Gender stereotypes and its impact upon personality development

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/what-are-gender-roles-and-stereotypes

This article states that gender roles are the ideas that our society has about each gender and based upon that idea one can make the whole scenario.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00011/full

Learning:

This article shed light upon the role of gender stereotypes in personality development. Gender stereotypes related to men and women were also checked. Assertiveness, independence, leadership, competence and emotional sensitivity were checked among other stereotypes. Results showed that a focus on facets of agency and communality can provide deeper insights about stereotype content than a focus on overall agency and communality.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1130845?seq=1

Learning:

This article focused upon the concept of stereotypes. A complex model that was presented in this article focused on the investigation of developmental changes that takes along with the advancing age. Two major studies encompassing children as sample were done in this study. Results of the study indicated that personality development in relation to gender stereotypes occur in a specific way. First of all children learn about characteristics of their own personality and then they learn about others. Finally, they become able to associate things with each gender.

Topic 2: Coping styles: Efficacy to deal effectively with traumatic events

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067571

This article states that if an individual adopts healthy coping strategies then he, she can have effective dealing with the stressful events of life

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5693481/

coping strategies and mental health are interrelated as described by this article. An individual practicing positive and healthy coping strategies can have a healthy psychological wellbeing. Problem-focused coping skills are always healthy and provide much nourishment to the psychological health

https://rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1356&context=etd

certain coping styles are good enough while others are deteriorating for mental health as stated by this article. The mental health gets disturbed if emotion-focused coping styles are used.

Topic 3: Impact of COVID 19 on marital relationships and marital satisfaction

https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/pandemic-effects-on-marriage-and-relationships/?article_id=730716

The impact of COVID 19 on marital satisfaction has been studied in this article and it states that pandemic is an external stressor for every couple and when they can not fight such stressor then it results in increased problems in marital relationship.

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-49590/v1/f86957f2-30d8-433b-8bbd-13b03121b961.pdf

This article described the martial relationships satisfaction and lactation experience of pregnant females. It goes on adding that pregnant and lactating females had more mental health problems thus resulting in more problems in marital relationship because of COVID 19. However, socioeconomic status also played an important role in mediating the effect of COVID 19

https://www.psychosocial.com/article/PR2020647/27982/

This study has explained the fact that people that were present in an area where there were high number of incidents of COVID 19 were at more risk of developing marital problems as compared to those that were present in green zone area. Those couples instead had a positive impact of COVID 19 as they had a positive development in their marital relationship and marital satisfaction.