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Comparative Study
| Published: September 30, 2021
Psychological Distress among Employed, Partially employed and Unemployed Youths Due to Pandemic: A Comparative Study
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Christ College, Mysuru, Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.191.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.191
ABSTRACT
Novel corona virus, COVID-19 has been declared as pandemic by the WHO (world health organization). The spread of corona virus has lead to wide spread fear which in turn has affected the daily life of every individual, more so the unemployed youths. The present study aimed to examine the level of psychological distress among employed, Partially employed and unemployed youths. The research was conducted on 101 youths in the age range of 18-35 years. The sample of the study consisted 60 unemployed and 41 employed Indian youths. Random sampling method was used in order to select the subject’s for the present study. Online survey method was adopted for the collection of data. Kessler Psychological distress Scale, (K10) was used to assess the level of psychological distress. In order to analyze the data mean, SD, “t” test and “f” test was used. The wide spread contagious outbreak has brought a halt to the fast moving modern world. Thus, this disease has affected every individual directly or indirectly. Such a change in one’s life has caused anxiety, stress and fear, though this is a natural reaction to an uncertain situation. The data reveals that there’s an alarming need to cope and manage the impact of the disease among unemployed youths to ensure good health and wellbeing.
Keywords
COVID-19, Pandemic, Psychological Distress, Partially employed, Unemployed, Youths
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.
© 2021, Swamy I.C.
Received: July 05, 2021; Revision Received: September 11, 2021; Accepted: September 30, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.191.20210903
10.25215/0903.191
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021