Contribution of psychological resilience on quality of life  During Covid-19 pandemic

AMER, ABDELNASSER

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2020.103325

Contribution of psychological resilience on quality of life During Covid-19 pandemic

Document Type : Original Article

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ABDELNASSER AMER

Professor and head of the Department of Educational Psychology Faculty of Education - Suez Canal University

10.21608/edusohag.2020.103325

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The current study aimed to determine the levels of quality of life and also examine the contribution of psychological resilience for prediction quality of life During Covid-19 panademic. Survey and correlation study was conducted to 442 participant among Egyptian community; Sex, Male 63(14.3%) and Female= 379(85.7%); age (M=27.19, SD = 9.82); the educational level, 10 (2.3%) elementary level, 13 (2.9%) middle school level, 12 (2.7%) high school level, 337 (76.2%) undergraduate level, 60 (13.6%) postgraduate level, 10 (2.2%) master and PhD level; social status, marriage 115(26.0%), non-marriage 327(74%). The scales were used; quality of life (α=0.91) and psychological resilience (α=0.86). Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and simple regression analysis were conducted to analyze the data. Results revealed high levels of quality of life; The psychological resilience predicted quality of life (β=0.533) and explained variance (28.2%) in quality of life so resilience has positive effect on quality of life. significance, limitations, and recommendations of the study are discussed.

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