A Study of Dispositional Resilience among College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

The investigation entitled “A Study of Dispositional Resilience among College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic. A study of Dispositional resilience among college students during COVID-19 pandemic” aimed to assess the Dispositional resilience of college students. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 college students in the age range of 19-21 years studying in various undergraduate programmes offered by different rural and urban colleges of Ludhiana district of Punjab. The sample was equally divided between the two genders (250 males & 250 females) and locale (250 rural & 250 urban). The sample was randomly drawn from the selected colleges that were partially operating during the pandemic. A set of questionnaire was given to each respondent namely, General Information Sheet and Self-Structured Dispositional Resilience (Hardiness) Questionnaire and a General Information Sheet was also distributed. Later the scoring was done and the results were tabulated. Results revealed that in Significant gender differences were found between the urban males and urban females in the commitment dimension of dispositional resilience. In the communication dimension of dispositional resilience, the rural males scored higher as compared to rural females, while in the urban area, the urban females scored higher than the urban males. Rural females scored significantly higher than the rural males in the overall dispositional resilience.