Dr. Parwinder Singh

Personal Information

 Name: Dr. Parwinder Singh
 Designation: Assistant Professor (Psychology)
 Contact Number: +91-9888451420
 Email:singh_parwinder@iitrpr.ac.in
 Address: 217, Transit Campus - I, IIT Ropar

Areas Of Research

  • Broad Areas: Counselling, Personality and Positive Psychology (Applied Psychology).
  • Specific Areas: Emotion Regulation, Aggression, Health-Risk Behaviour, Depressive Symptomatology

Short Biography

Parwinder Singh received his PhD in Counselling Psychology. He started his career as a counselling psychologist and provided his services for almost five years in the Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala. From 2011 to April 2018, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at a constituent campus of Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. His research work mainly includes planning, devising, executing and evaluating various psychological interventions targeting different facets of maladaptive behaviour. He studies social-cognitive aspects of adaptive and maladaptive behavioural patterns, focusing primarily on behaviour modification. Presently he is working to explore the dynamics of emotion regulation and its implications for aggressive, depressive & health-risk behaviours. Exploring various risk and protective factors associated with specific behavioural phenomena and applying appropriate intervention characterize his research designs.

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Work Experience

Research

Research Projects

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As Principal Investigator


  •  Risk and Protective factors associated with depression among Indian women living in the state of Punjab: Assessment and Intervention, funded by ISIRD IIT Ropar (16,91,500/-)
  • Health-Risk Behaviours among adolescents: Role of difficulties in emotion regulation, parenting style and personality characteristics, funded by ICMR, New Delhi (14,58,300/-)


As Co-Investigator


  •  A Checklist-based Advisory to Minimize the Cost and Duration of Worse-before-better in Transitioning from Chemical to Organic Smallholder Farming, funded by MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative) Global Seed Funds ($14,475/-), PI- Dr. Chintan Vaishnav, Senior lecturer, Sloan School of Management (MIT)
  • Stubble Burning: Health impacts and social perception - an explorative study for prevention”, Submitted under Network Grant' of the Swedish Research Council (SRC), Sweden. PI-Professor Koustuv Dalal, Senior Health Economist & Prevention Scientist, Associate Professor, Mid Sweden University, Sweden (Rs. 63,00,000/-)
  • Digital Abuse of Women in intimate partner relationships: Conceptualization, Repercussions and potential interventions”, Funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi (Rs. 10,00,000/-). PI Dr. Shubhdip Kaur, Assistant Professor, Central University Of Punjab, Bhatinda (On-going)


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Courses

UG Courses

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·      Basic Psychological Processes (HUL486: Designed and Taught)

·      Psychology at Workplace (HUL 485: Designed and Taught)

·      Emotion Regulation (HUL/HS 495: Designed and Taught)

·      Cognitive Processes (HUL/HS 503: Designed and Taught)

·      Positive Psychology & Well-Being (HS507: Designed and Taught)


PG/PhD Courses

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· Research Approaches and Methods in Psychology (HS650: Designed and Taught)

. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Practice (HS640: Designed and Taught)

· Psychometrics (HS641: Designed and Taught)


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