SOCIAL MEDIA AND RESILIENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY GRADUATES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA

Author Name: 1. Eid Ahmad Al Naeem Shkour

Volume/Issue: 04/04

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/10.2023-73143247/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.

ABSTRACT

One's capacity to persevere through hardship and bounce back is referred to as resilience. Without a clear consensus, many theories about what supports the development of resilience have been investigated. Adult personal resilience includes the traits of willpower, fortitude, adaptability, and recoverability. The process of controlling emotions, cognition, behavior, physiological reactions, and the environment in response to stressful experiences is referred to as coping, a term associated to resilience. Previous studies have shown that those with worse mental health are less resilient and have a propensity to employ unhealthy coping mechanisms when under stress. For many people, social media has had an impact on their daily lives for a long time. Due to the restrictions put in place to slow the pandemic's rapid and hazardous spread, social media has become a crucial channel for networking and increasing support. Here, we provide a basic paradigm to explore the effect of social media on resilience during the pandemic, taking into account the formation of a crisis followed by the pandemic. More particularly, we show and discuss the potential for social media use to have an impact on resilience during the COVID-19 situation, both positively and negatively. The present research study puts forth the psychological well-being of University graduates who lived at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh during the Covid 19 pandemic. The study has impressed upon the role social media has played in making the individuals more resilient than before in order to cope with the stress induced by new situations.

Key words: Social Media, Resilience, COVID-19, Graduates, University