Socialization and Its Impact on Mental Health during COVID-19
Asian Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2,
Page 68-74
Abstract
The present study is on how socialization has an influence on the mental health of the people during COVID-19. Two hundred young adults with various occupational backgrounds was randomly chosen for the this study. Small group socialization scale, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) were used to understand the sample’s socialization mental health and perceived stress. The data collected is processed using SPSS software. The results indicated that there is an average level of socialization, moderate perceived stress and absence of psychological illness among the sample. The correlation test implied that there is a significant statistical relation between General health and perceived stress. The results obtained by t-test implied that there is a significant difference between the male and female respondents about socialization and perceived stress, wherein male subjects had greater socialization and female subjects had greater perceived stress.
Keywords:
- Socialization
- mental health
- COVID-19
- stress and psychological illness
How to Cite
Swamy, I. C., & Kumar, G. V. (2023). Socialization and Its Impact on Mental Health during COVID-19. Asian Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies, 6(2), 68–74. Retrieved from https://ikppress.org/index.php/AJAHSS/article/view/8150
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Bryce L, Jorgensen DL. The Financial Behavior of Emerging Adults: A Family Financial Socialization Approach. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 2017;57-69.
Clare Wenham JS. COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak. Gender & COVID-19 Research Project. 2020;20:395.
Claudia I, Lugo-Candelas EA. Ethnic differences in the relation between parental emotion socialization and mental health in emerging adults. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 2016; 922-938.
Danice L, Brown TL. Racial discrimination and resilience in African American young adults: examining racial socialization as a moderator. Journal of Black Psychology; 2010.
Diehl M, Hay EL, Berg KM. The ratio between positive and negative affect and flourishing mental health across adulthood. Aging & Mental Health. 2011;15(7):882-893.
Dix T. Attributing dispositions to children: An interactional analysis of attribution in socialization. SAGE Journals; 2006.
Dwairy M. Parenting styles and mental health of Palestinian–Arab adolescents in Israel. Transcultural Psychiatry. 2004;41(2):233-252.
Edward Livingston M, Karen Bucher MC. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). JAMA. 2020;14:323.
Ellis AE. Influence of agents of leisure socialization on leisure self-efficacy of university students. Journal of Leisure Research. 2018;114-126.
Esther M, Leerkes AJ. Links between remembered childhood emotion socialization and adult adjustment: similarities and differences between European American and African American Women. Journal of Family Issues. 2013;1854-1877.
Esther M, Leerkes AJ. Ethnic differences in women's emotional reactions to parental nonsupportive emotion socialization. Marriage & Family Review. 2014;435-446.
Evans-Lacko S, London J, Japhet S, Rüsch N, Flach C, Corker E, Thornicroft G. Mass social contact interventions and their effect on mental health related stigma and intended discrimination. BMC Public Health. 2012;12(1):489.
Fischer AR. African Americans' mental health and perceptions of racist discrimination: The moderating effects of racial socialization experiences and self-esteem. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 2009;395-407.
Bowden G, Templeton KR. Adolescent socialization in rural appalachia: the perspectives of teens, parents, and significant adults. Marriage & Family Review. 2008;52-80.
Inchara Chamaiah Swamy. psychological distress among employed, partially employed and unemployed youths due to pandemic: A comparative study; 2021.
Payton JW, DM. Social and emotional learning: a framework for promoting mental health and reducing risk behavior in children and youth. J Sch Health; 2009.
Jackson T. Protective self-presentation, sources of socialization, and loneliness Protective self-presentation, sources of socialization, and loneliness among Australian adolescents and young adults. Personality and Individual Differences; 2007.
Rozelle S, Raat H, Zhou H. Epidemiology, causes, clinical manifestation and diagnosis, prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the early outbreak period: a scoping review. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 2020;9(1):29.
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