Exploring the Relationship between Hardiness, Perceived Stress, Life Satisfaction and Affect among College Undergraduates

By : Chirmi Acharya, Varun Sethi

Page No: 341-347

Abstract
Hardiness is known as a personality trait that relates to a person’s ability to manage and respond to stressful life events in a healthy way with coping strategies that turn potentially unfortunate circumstances into learning. Hardiness is also a personal attribute commonly look after in the workplace and greatly valued in students of all ages. The tools employed were: Hardiness Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, PANAS and Life satisfaction scale. This study aims to investigate relation of hardiness, perceived stress, positive and negative affect and life satisfaction in 100 college undergraduates. The findings of this study are in line with the available literature that hardiness positively relates with life satisfaction and positive affect and is negatively related to perceived stress and negative affect.

Authors :
Chirmi Acharya : Assistant Professor AIBAS, Amity University Rajasthan.
Varun Sethi : BA (H) Applied Psychology – AIBAS, Amity University Rajasthan.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.01.29