A comparative study on Psychological Immunity, Personality and Anxiety in covid-19 Recovered Persons and Normal Persons

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the Psychological impact Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Psychological immunity and various personalities like neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness of Covid-19 recovered persons. The data was collected from June 5, 2020 to August 15, 2020 in Urban and Rural areas of District Jind, Haryana. The data was collected through random sampling from 128 respondents out of which 64 were Covid-19 recovered and 64 were those not infected by Covid-19. The each 64 were further divided in 32 of male and 32 of females. The data had been collected via direct face to face interactions and filling of questionnaire. The level of anxiety, depression, and, stress was measured by the scale, ADSS-BSPSA developed by Pallavi Bhatnagar et al., Department of Psychology at Lucknow University. The various Personalities was measured by the scale NEO FFI-3 developed by Paul T. Costa et al. The psychological immune system was measured by the scale Psychological Immune Stress Inventory (PISI) developed by Attila Olah et al. Hypothesis Testing and t-test were applied for data analysis.

The results reveal that there is a significant difference on the level of anxiety, depression, and stress among Covid-19 recovered persons and normal persons. The persons with less Psychological immunity were more infected than those were high. On behalf of personality it is found that the Neuroticism of Covid-19 recovered is high at significant level whereas Openness and Conscientiousness is less at significant level and there is no significant impact of Extraversion and Agreeableness.