Resilience, Positive Affect, and Negative Affect in Young Adults

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Arvind Kakulte¹ and Ekta Shipure² (Department of Psychology, Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune, Maharashtra¹ and MIT-ADT, Pune, Maharashtra²)

The study focused on how different kinds of coping experiences, with hurtful shocks and tensions differ with age and gender, and how important it is to develop resilience and positive affect during this COVID- 19 lockdown in order to carry out our day-today activities with ease. Resilience is based on psychological resources such as environmental mastery and competence, a feeling of autonomy and self-direction, and a flexible self-concept that allows people to modify important aspects of their self-definition in response to changing circumstances. Resilience also depends on social resources. Good relationships with people that offer closeness and social support are included here. This research is aimed at highlighting the existing relations among variables related to resilience, and negative and positive affect in young adults. With the use of purposive sampling, the data was collected from the age group 18 to 25 male and female. The tools used in this research were (PANAS) (Watson, 1988) and Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) (Smith, 2008). Quantitative data is done using descriptive statistics. SPSS-26 software was utilized to analyze the data. The results reveal that resilience and positive affect were positively interrelated, r = .339, p < .01; positive and negative affect were adversely interrelated, r = -.210, p < .01; resilience and negative affect were adversely correlated, The Correlation between resilience and negative affect is .272, p < .01. Positive and negative affect predicted resilience, adjusted R2 = .140, F = 9.129, p < .01. All four hypotheses were accepted.