Portrayal of Positive Psychological Capital in Quran

The present study aims at exploring positive psychological capital in the verses of Qur’an. Positive psychology is the latest advancement in the field of psychology which focuses on improving the well-being of society. Positive psychological capital refers to the combination of overall qualities of positive psychology that contributes to the well-being and mental health. The present study is based on the content analysis of the verses of Qur’an. Content analysis comprises of three steps including identifying the categories or themes, dividing the information into units or parts and finally rating all the themes in all units. In the first step the researchers identified 41 themes from Qur’an by using committee approach and reading the verses between the lines. All these categories were identified by keeping in view the underlying themes of positive psychology. In the second step 30 units were devised from Qur’an by considering each Part as a single unit. The categories included behavior modification, belief in divine help, brotherhood, bravery, contentment, civility, credibility, encouragement of virtue, emotional regulation, excellence, forgiveness, generosity, gratitude, honesty, hopefulness, humility, justice, knowledge, lawful spending, learning, meaningfulness, mindfulness, moderation, obedience, patience, peace, determination, positivity, prosperity, repentance, resilience, reward, self-actualization, self-awareness, self-control, sincerity, social leadership, truthfulness, trust, and wisdom. Results suggest that the most prominent category in Qur’an is the reward. Validity of the study was maintained through the selection of the themes with the help of committee approach. Reliability of the scoring system was maintained through partial inter-rater reliability. Overall the present research has many implications in the positive psychology of religion.    

Existence of holomorphic functions with respect to almost complex structure on twistor spaces

The idea of Twistor Theory was created by English Physicist R. Penrose, is that the geometry of a conformal manifold M can be encoded in holomorphic terms of the so-called Twistor Spaces associated to M. The negative twistor space of an oriented Riemannian 4-manifold M , is a two-sphere bundle L whose fiber at any point m of M consists of all complex structure on tangent space Tm M compatible with metric and the opposite orientation of M. The Smooth Manifold L admits two almost complex structure J1 and J2 introduced by Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer and Elles-Salamon respectively, recently G. De- schamp observed that given a smooth map f from L to L ,a fibre preserving map, one can define an almost complex structure Jf on twistor space L and J1, J2 are the special cases of Jf . J. Davidov and O. Mushkarov studied the existence of holomorphic function with respect to almost complex structure J1 and J2. I have rigorously explore this existence in this thesis also I concluded that the existence of holomorphic function with respect to compatible almost complex structure Jf can be proven in the same way