A Comparative Study of Type D and Non-Type D Personality Patterns in Relation to COVID Anxiety among Young Adults

Covid-19 pandemic has affected a large number of individual worldwide. Individuals suffered from physical as well as psychological symptoms like uncertainty, anxiety, fear, depression and post-traumatic stress. The present study was under taken to assess the Covid anxiety among Type D and Non-Type D personality groups. The total sample was N= 400 was taken from DAV university, Jalandhar age ranging from 18 to 25 years. Then two groups – Type D Personality group (N=128) and Non-Type D Personality group (N=138) were formed. Corona virus Anxiety scale (CAS), Taylor S. (2019) was administered to both the group to find out the difference in their CAS. The t-ratio for both the groups i.e., 3.46 is highly significant at 0.01 level. Thus, the results showed that Type D personality has significantly higher anxiety score (CAS) in comparison to Non-Type D personality, which signifies that the individuals having high score on social inhibition (SI) and negative affectivity (NA) are having higher anxiety score.