Dispositional resilience and self- awareness as correlates of mental health among college students during covid-19 pandemic
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2023
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Punjab Agricultural University
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The investigation entitled “Dispositional resilience and self-awareness as correlates of mental health among college students during covid-19 pandemic” aimed to assess the Dispositional resilience and self-awareness of college students as correlates of mental health. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 college students in the age range of 19-21 years studying in various undergraduate programmes offered by different rural and urban colleges of Ludhiana district of Punjab. The sample was equally divided between the two genders (250 males and 250 females) and locale (250 rural and 250 urban). The sample was randomly drawn from the selected colleges that were partially operating during the pandamic. A set comprising of three questionnaires was given to each respondent namely, General Information Sheet, SelfStructured Dispositional Resilience (Hardiness) Questionnaire, Mental Health Battery by Singh and Sengupta (2000) and The Self-Awareness Scale by Patteti and Podila (2019). Later the scoring was done and the results were tabulated. Results revealed that in the overall mental health scores, the male students performed better than the female students and the rural students performed better than the urban students, and rural females were found to perform significantly better than urban females. In the overall self-awareness, female students scored better as compared to the male students. Significant gender differences were found between the urban males and females in the commitment dimension of dispositional resilience. In the communication dimension of dispositional resilience, the rural males scored higher as compared to rural females, while in the urban area, the urban females scored higher than the urban males. Rural females scored significantly higher than the rural males in the overall dispositional resilience. Emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, securityinsecurity, Intelligence dimensions as well as the overall mental health were found to have positive and significant correlation with commitment, control, communication and challenge dimensions of dispositional resilience.
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Anmol Toor (2023). Dispositional resilience and self- awareness as correlates of mental health among college students during covid-19 pandemic (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.