Perceived Social Support and Resilience of College Students during COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic had numerous effects on people from all age groups in some or the other way. On the other hand there were many factors which have helped people sail through it and out of those two important factors can be perceived social support and resilience. The present study focused on understanding the relationship between perceived social support and resilience of undergraduate college students. The study further aimed to assess gender differences in the context of perceived social support and resilience. Data of 116 undergraduate students was gathered using a personal data sheet, a Multidimensional scale for Perceived Social Support and a Brief Resilience scale. The analysis revealed a positive significant correlation of total Perceived Social Support, social support from significant other and friends with Resilience. The t-test results showed there is no significant gender difference for perceived social support from friends, family, significant other, total perceived social support and resilience. The study in this perspective suggests enhancing perceived social support can increase the resilience among youth across both the genders and the results can further be used for establishing ways to increase perceived social support.