Quality of life, social anxiety and conscientiousness in military people with relevance to theprevalent COVID-19

Asha Thapa; Divya Srivastava; Kalpana Sharma

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS1.7365

Authors

Asha Thapa Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India
Divya Srivastava Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University
Kalpana Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University

Keywords:

Military personal, quality of life, social anxiety, conscientiousness, Big Five Inventory, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale, WHOQOL-BREF, COVID-19

Abstract

The study was undertaken to determine the quality of life, social anxiety and conscientiousness in military personnel with relevance to the prevalent Covid-19 pandemic. Both male and female who are actively serving in Indian military were taken as subjects for the present study. A total of 117 subjects were taken in which 68 were male and 49 were female. The subjects were also matched in age, education and income. Each one of the subjects were helpful and intrigued to be the piece of this review and were liberated from any sort of extreme physical or psychological instability.Three scales including Big Five Inventory, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and WHOQOL-BREF were used to collect the data on the mentioned three variables. The outcomesconfirmed that during the time of Covid-19 whilenearly all civilians have beennotably distressed, military peoplehave been actively doing their responsibility in serving the country and there has beennow no longerintenseeffect of Covid-19 on their intellectual health. Many military personnel have martyred for the countryduring the time of Covid-19 at the same time astheyhave beencarrying outtheir responsibility which has affected their lifestylehowever,now no longerconfined to their intellectual illness.

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