Role of Coping Humour and Resilience in Influencing General Health among Cyber-based Financial Fraud Victims in India

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Palak Parashar and Ashfia Nishat (Department of Psychology and Mental Health, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh)

The use of the Internet for financial fraud is increasing in India. However, there is a lack of psychological resources available to the victims of fraud for a comeback from their adversity. As a result, the current correlated cross-sectional study intended to study the association of coping humour and resilience with general health in 84 cyber-based financial fraud victims who filled Google forms to self-report. Data was collected through the quantitative measures using the Coping Humour Scale (Martin & Lefcourt, 1983), General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978), and Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008). Investigating the victims was discovered not have high levels of coping humour (M = 23.79, SD = 4.57) and resilience (M = 3.22, SD = 0.51); but they were significantly distressed (M = 31.93, SD = 13.35), particularly in social dysfunction. The study found a significant positive correlation between humour and resilience (r = .493, p < .001). However, resilience was the only variable significantly associated with social dysfunction (r = .255, p = .019). After 6 months to 12 months following fraud, was negatively impacted by general life difficulties, F(3, 80) = 3.19, p = .027. Such results, explained within the framework of the Conservation of Resources Theory, stress the necessity of developing specific psychological interventions in order to enhance resilience and coping humour of cyber fraud victims.