Adversity Quotient and Resilience: The Predictors of Prosocial Behaviour in Young Adults

Page: 397-402
Mahak Mathur and Sakshi Jain (Department of Psychology, IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The novel Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infecting millions and killing thousands, has unsettle our lives creating hindrance and difficulties for meeting some of the utmost necessities. In times of health crisis, prosocial acts to safeguard or enhance the welfare of others are critical. The present study was conducted to assess experiences regarding prosocial acts and investigate how these experiences were predicted by adversity quotient, and resilience. This study, using Causal Research Design and Purposive Sampling assessed how the Resilience and Adversity Quotient of the young adults in India results in prosocial behaviour. The sample of the study consisted of 213 young emerging adults between the age group of 18-24 years. Three standardized scales, i.e., The new Adult’s Prosocial Behaviour Scale (Caparra et al., 2005); The Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008); and The Adversity Quotient profile (Stoltz, 2007) were used for analysing the purpose of the research. Findings of the study revealed that there is a significant correlation between Resilience and Prosocial behaviour. It also suggests that, even though adversity quotient is so strongly related with resilience, there is no significant association between adversity quotient and prosocial behaviour.