Mitigating Mental Health Burden of Youth During COVID-19 Through Resilience and Hope: Evidences from India and Germany
- Title
- Mitigating Mental Health Burden of Youth During COVID-19 Through Resilience and Hope: Evidences from India and Germany
- Creator
- Mukherjee T.; Deb S.; Deb S.
- Description
- In the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, young professionals and graduating students experience considerable psychological adversity due to the uncertainty surrounding their futures. Given the positive psychological outcomes and the potential to alleviate stress, we examine the role of resilience and hope in causing a substantial variance in the stress response to anticipation of crisis among Indians living in India and Germany. Resilience, hope, crisis apprehension, and the psychological response to the COVID-19 pandemic were measured among participants from India and Germany (n = 650) via an online survey using non-probability convenient sampling. Parallel mediation and conditional indirect effects showcase the differential roles of resilience and hope among socio-culturally similar but geographically divergent groups. Hope mediates the effect of pandemic-led crisis apprehension on perceived stress among those residing in India; resilience operates to mitigate stress among those from Germany. Findings highlight the contradistinctive role of resilience and hope in reducing stress and imply an urgent need for promotion of ameliorative practices. Resilience effectively mitigates the psychological burden of the COVID-19 crisis and can be promoted to reskill individuals; however, elevating hope in a crisis obligates prudence. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.
- Source
- Handbook of Youth Development: Policies and Perspectives from India and Beyond, pp. 515-529.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Subject
- Anticipatory Crisis; COVID-19; Hope; Mental Health; Resilience; Stress
- Coverage
- Mukherjee T., Work and Organizational Psychologist, Muenster, Germany; Deb S., Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS), Government of India (GOI), Sriperumbudur Tamil Nadu, Pennalur, 602 105, India; Deb S., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 978-981994969-4; 978-981994968-7
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Mukherjee T.; Deb S.; Deb S., “Mitigating Mental Health Burden of Youth During COVID-19 Through Resilience and Hope: Evidences from India and Germany,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 22, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18355.