Emotional Regulation & Optimism as Predictor of Self Efficacy among Young Adults in India

Ankita Maity; Anjali Sahai

OPEN ACCESS

PEER-REVIEWED

Comparative Study

| Published: October 05, 2018

Emotional Regulation & Optimism as Predictor of Self Efficacy among Young Adults in India

Ankita Maity

Applied Psychology, Amity Institute of Psychology & Allied Sciences, Amity University, UP, Noida, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Anjali Sahai

Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Psychology & Allied Sciences, Amity University, UP, Noida, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.037/20180603

DOI: 10.25215/0603.037

ABSTRACT

Young adult hood stage is an important period in human development characterized by rapid changes in physical, sexual, cognitive and emotional context of an individual. This period is known as the transition period when adolescence move to the next stage of development .This study investigates the effect of emotional regulation and optimism on self-efficacy among young adults. For this purpose, 117 college students from various private colleges of Delhi NCR region were included and were assessed by Life-Orientation Test- Revised by S.C. Carver; Emotion Regulation Scale by John and Gross and General Self-Efficacy Scale by Schwarzer and Jerusalem. The results indicate that emotional regulation and optimism as a predictor of self-efficacy.

Keywords

Emotional Regulation, Optimism, Self-Efficacy

Download Full Text

This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to cite this article: Maity, A & Sahai, A (2018). Emotional Regulation & Optimism as Predictor of Self Efficacy among Young Adults in India. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 6(3), 155-170. DIP:18.01.037/20180603, DOI:10.25215/0603.037