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Gratitude and Hope as Correlates of Psychological Well-being amongst COVID-19 Survivors


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1 Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
2 Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
     

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The world witnessed and went through the COVID-19 pandemic for a major part of two years, the after effects of which still reverberate loudly worldwide. The psychological and emotional turmoil was felt by everyone but was accentuated many fold, especially for the COVID-19 survivors. Years of research have already established gratitude and hope to be the predictors of psychological well-being. The present research study made an attempt to explore gratitude and hope as the correlates of psychological well-being amongst COVID-19 survivors. The sample of this research study consisted of 76 survivors (N=76) from the state of Haryana, India. Gratitude Questionnaire-6 by McCullough et al. (2002); the Adult State Hope Scale by Snyder et al. (1996); and Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scale (RPWBS-18; Ryff et al., 2010) were used for the assessment of the variables. Descriptive statistics and Pearson's Product Moment Correlation was applied to explore the relationship among the variables. The findings of the study establish a significant positive correlation between both, gratitude and psychological well-being & hope and psychological well-being

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COVID-19 survivors, psychological well-being, hope, gratitude, pandemic
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Authors

Taruna Gera
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Ajit Bhardwaj
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Devansh Singh
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Jyoti Boora
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Namita Lohra
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Sangeeta Boora
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Shubhangi Singh
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Tanisha Sharma
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

Abstract


The world witnessed and went through the COVID-19 pandemic for a major part of two years, the after effects of which still reverberate loudly worldwide. The psychological and emotional turmoil was felt by everyone but was accentuated many fold, especially for the COVID-19 survivors. Years of research have already established gratitude and hope to be the predictors of psychological well-being. The present research study made an attempt to explore gratitude and hope as the correlates of psychological well-being amongst COVID-19 survivors. The sample of this research study consisted of 76 survivors (N=76) from the state of Haryana, India. Gratitude Questionnaire-6 by McCullough et al. (2002); the Adult State Hope Scale by Snyder et al. (1996); and Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scale (RPWBS-18; Ryff et al., 2010) were used for the assessment of the variables. Descriptive statistics and Pearson's Product Moment Correlation was applied to explore the relationship among the variables. The findings of the study establish a significant positive correlation between both, gratitude and psychological well-being & hope and psychological well-being

Keywords


COVID-19 survivors, psychological well-being, hope, gratitude, pandemic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2022%2Fv13i4%2F218463