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Professor Shikha Dixit
PhD (Agra University)
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Health Psychology, Social Representations, Illness Narratives, Social Cognition, Organizational Cognition, Mental Models
Office
FB-153,
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Education
PhD, St. John's College, Agra, Agra University, 1992
M.A., St. John's College, Agra University, 1988
B.A., St. John's College, Agra University, 1986
Teaching Area
Psycho-social aspects of Health and Illness, Social Cognition, Organizational Cognition, Qualitative Methods
Selected Publications
Journal publicationsMaji, S and Dixit, S. (2019). Self-silencing and women’s health: A review, International Journal of Social Psychiatry 65(1), 3-13
Journal publicationsMishra K.K., Dixit S. (2017). Cultural Adaptation of New Affective Well-Being Measure in Hindi-Speaking Youth: Scale of Positive and Negative Experience, Psychological Studies, 62, 188-195
Journal publicationsMalik A., Dixit S. (2017) Barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence, Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (32), 21-23
Journal publicationsMalik. A. and Dixit. S. (2017). Women Living with HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial Challenges in the Indian Context. Journal of Health Management. 19 (3) 1–21 DOI: 10.1177/097206341666634
Journal publicationsMalik A and Dixit S. (2017). Resistance to Resilience: Journey of a Young Girl from Home to ART Center. HSOA Journal of AIDS Clinical Research and STDs. 4: 016 DOI: 10.24966/ACRS-7370/100016
Journal publicationsMalik.A and Dixit. S. (2017) .Widowhood and HIV: A Narrative of Pain, Illusion and Predicament. International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies. 5 (2), 99-107 DOI: 10.15640/ijgws.v5n2p10
Journal publicationsBanerjee, B and Dixit, S., (April, 2017). Explanatory Models and Psychiatric Pluralism among Family Members of Mentally Ill Persons: A Narrative Inquiry. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 10 (3), 320-337
Journal publicationsYadav, N. & Dixit, S. (2017). A conceptual model of learning agility and authentic leadership development: Moderating effects of learning goal orientation and organizational culture. Journal of Human Values, 23(1), pp. 40-51.
Journal publicationsSingh, A., and Dixit, S. (2017). Socio-economic Patterning of Cardiovascular Disease and its Risk Factors among Indians: A Systematic Review of Literature. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 7(1), 1-17.
Journal publicationsYadav, N. & Dixit, S. (2017). Authentic leadership and employees’ work-related quality of life: A study of IT organizations in India. International Journal of Business and Management, 12(4), 222-230.
Journal publicationsSingh, A., and Dixit, S. (2016). Lower Socio-economic Status and Cardiovascular Disease: Role of Health care Facility and Policy in India. Indian Journal of Community Health, 28(3), 215-221.
Journal publicationsSingh, R. and Dixit, S. (2010). Health related quality of life and health management. Journal of Health Management, 12 (2), 153-172
Journal publicationsMehrotra, A. and Dixit, S. (2009).Perceived illness severity (PIS) among cancer patients: An exploration of dimensions of PIS and construction of a scale. Journal of Indian health psychology, 3 (2). 111-124.
Journal publicationsSingh, R. and Dixit, S. (2009). Illness cognition, coping and health related quality of life: A study of myocardial infarction patients. Indian Journal of Community Psychology, 5 (2).176 - 190.
Journal publicationsKhan, A., Sharma, N. K., & Dixit, S. (2008). Cognitive Load and Task Condition in Event- and Time-Based Prospective Memory: An Experimental Investigation, The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 142 (5), 517 - 532.
Journal publicationsMaurya, A. S. and Dixit, S. (2008). Lay Understanding of Mental Health and Illness: A Social Representations Approach. Psychological Studies, 53 (1), 34 - 40.
Journal publicationsDixit, S., Mishra, M., and Sharma, A. K. (2008). Conceptualisation of Health and Illness: A Study of Social Representations among Bondos of Orissa. Psychology and Developing Societies, 20 (1), 1 - 26.
Journal publicationsKhan, A., Sharma, N.K., & Dixit, S. (2007) Relationship between prospective and retrospective memory: A questionnaire based study. Psychological Studies, 52 (2). 134-137
Journal publicationsKhan, A., Sharma, N. K. and Dixit, S. (2006). Effect of Cognitive Load and Paradigm on Time Perception. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 32 (1), 37- 42
Journal publicationsSharma, A.K. and Dixit S. (2006). Should Social Scientists Use Statistical Methods? The Eastern Anthropologist, 59 (1), Jan-March 2006, 103-114.
Journal publicationsDixit, S. (2005). Meaning and Explanations of Mental Illness: A Social Representations Approach. Psychology and Developing Societies, 17(1), 1-18
Book chaptersMehrotra, A. and Dixit, S. (2017).Conceptualization of perceived illness severity in cancer patients. In Dixit, S. and Sharma, A.K. (Eds.), Psycho-Social Aspects of Health and Illness (3 - 20). Concept Publishers, New Delhi.
Book chaptersBanerjee, B. and Dixit, S.. (2017). The concept of mental illness, healing traditions, and involvement of families in caring in the Indian context: A Review. In S. Dixit and A. K. Sharma (Eds.), Psycho-Social Aspects of Health and Illness (207 - 238). Concept Publishers, New Delhi.
Book chaptersMaurya, A. and Dixit, S. (2017) A qualitative exploration of social representations of mental health, mental illness and health seeking behaviour in the urban middle class Indians. In S. Dixit and A. K. Sharma (Eds.), Psycho-Social Aspects of Health and Illness (239 - 261). Concept Publishers, New Delhi.
Book chaptersBanerjee, B and Dixit, S. (April, 2016). Experiences of family caregivers in the context of mental illness: Suffering, Acceptance and Resilience. (pp. 3-14). In Nate Hinerman (Ed.) New Perspectives on the Relationship between Pain, Suffering and Metaphor. Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press. (ISBN- 978-1-84888-375-8).
Book chaptersDixit, S. (2009). Understanding Community Health Intervention. In A. Shukla (Ed.), Culture, Cognition and Behaviour (pp.294-311). Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi
Book chaptersDixit, S., Mehrotra, A., and Singh, R. (2007). Role of Religiosity and Spirituality in Health and Illness: Issues and Research Directions. In S. Malhotra, P. Batra and A.Yadava (Eds.), Health Psychology: A Psychosocial perspective (pp. 44-60). Commonwealth Publishers, Delhi.
Conference ProceedingsYadav, N. & Dixit, S. (2017). Authentic leadership and employees’ work-related quality of life: A study of IT organizations in India. In Compendium of conference proceedings of the 4th International HR Conference 2017 on Building Organizations of Tomorrow: Leadership Challenges of Human Capital in a Digital Workplace organized by KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Research and Studies in association with CSUSB and AMDISA. Published by ELK Asia Pacific Journals, ISBN: 9789385537035, pp. 23-31.
Conference ProceedingsYadav, N. and Dixit, S. (2014). Role of cognitive factors in leadership effectiveness. Extended abstract in Kumar, S. (Ed.), Re-visioning business management and psychology: Ecologies of local and global contexts (First edition, p. 233). Delhi: Wisdom Publications.
Conference ProceedingsYadav, N. & Dixit, S. (2014). Role of moral maturation in entrepreneurial innovation. In Panda, R. K. (Ed.), Proceedings of International Conference on Business Paradigms in Emerging Markets, 2014. School of Management, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. ISBN: 978-93-5196-520-6, Springer
Conference ProceedingsDixit, S. (2013). Mental Health and Gender Issues. In U. V. Somayajulu, S. S. Raju and Prakasam, C.P (Eds.), Social Inclusion and Women’s Health: Perspectives and Issues, (pp. 263 – 289), The Women Press, Delhi. (Ninth Annual Conference proceedings of the Indian Association of Social Sciences and Health, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 24-26 November2011
Conference ProceedingsDixit, S. (2012). Mental health and illness: Collective and situated meanings. In T..J. Jordan and D. Chhabra (Eds.), Annual International Conference proceedings, Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (CBP -2012), (pp 40-45). Global Science and Technology Forum (Conference organized from 13-14, 2012 in Singapore)
Awards & Fellowships
Letters of commendation from Director, IIT Kanpur for excellence in teaching.
Awarded UGC Research Associateship, 1993
Prof. Hakim Prize for best student in Psychology, 1988 (St. John’s College, Agra)