Resilience, Death Anxiety, and Mental Health of COVID-19 Survivors

Ravi P. Pandey; Shivangi Bansal; Tanya Sharma; Vivek Singh; Deepak Kumar; Pramod Kumar

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Resilience, Death Anxiety, and Mental Health of COVID-19 Survivors

Ravi P. Pandey, Shivangi Bansal, Tanya Sharma, Vivek Singh, Deepak Kumar, Pramod Kumar

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 12, Issue 3)

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The COVID-19 pandemic, a notable viral outbreak of the twenty-first century, has posed unparalleled challenges to global mental health. It has potentially escalated stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and social isolation, impacting both our physical and psychological well-being. Patients and healthcare professionals are given psychological support, but the general public's mental health also needs a lot of attention. Therefore, present study have been conducted to examine the role of resilience, mental health, and death anxiety among COVID-19 survivors. The study was carried out on 150 COVID-19 survivors (75 male & 75 female) who were residing in urban and rural areas of Rewari, Mahendergarh and Gurgaon district of Haryana. Participants were assessed using the resilience scale, death anxiety scale, and mental health continuum scale short form. Analysis revealed that female COVID-19 survivors tend to have higher levels of death anxiety and better mental health than male COVID survivors, whereas no significant difference was found in resilience differences between male and female COVID-19 survivors. It was also revealed that there was no significant difference between urban and rural areas COVID survivors on death anxiety, mental health, and resilience. Correlation analysis shows that resilience was found positively correlated with the mental health of COVID survivors whereas death anxiety was negatively associated with the mental health of the COVID-19 survivors.

Published in	American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 12, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajap.20231203.12
Page(s)	71-78
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Resilience, Mental Health, Death Anxiety

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Ravi P. Pandey

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Shivangi Bansal

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Tanya Sharma

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Vivek Singh

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Deepak Kumar

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Pramod Kumar

Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India

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