Abstract
Adolescent behavior changes as an outcome of home quarantine towards fighting COVID 19 infection, formed the basis of exploring adolescent social isolation. The subject Social isolation was studied via psychological dimensions related to fear of anxiety, gloomy, fatigue and their impact with each other and their sub factors. An empirical exploration with a sample comprising of 157, both male and female adolescents, randomly selected by an online survey formed the basis of the study. Self-Evaluation scale developed was used for the study. The study presents its findings from proposed thirteen hypotheses emerging from literature reviewed. The empirical findings projected the relationship between anxiety and fatigue along with its impact on the adolescent’s gloominess and dissatisfaction, during their home quarantine confinement and social disconnect. From the study also emerged the finding that gender difference did not vary the adolescent’s anxiety, gloominess or satisfaction but did have a difference in fatigue experienced. Also the adolescent’s family size, depicted that there existed no significant difference with anxiety experienced, but family size had a bearing on the fatigue, satisfaction and gloominess experienced by adolescents. Who being subjected to their social isolation and confined to their homes. The study findings have a topical importance in addressing the psychological need analysis of the adolescents during the present COVID 19 home quarantine and lockdown.
Highlights
This paper focuses upon studying the concept of Self-Evaluation factors causing non-resilient behavior in adolescents during Covi19 pandemic Lockdown
H2: Mental health differs in adolescents by gender: H02a : There is no difference between Anxiety among males and females H02b: There is no difference between Gloomy among males and females H02c: There is no difference between Satisfaction among males and females H02d: There is no difference between Fatigue among males and females
H01e: From the table, we see that there is no difference between gloomy and satisfaction among respondents the above Null hypothesis is rejected as p value is significant, which is less than 0.05, implying that there exists a significant different between anxiety and fatigue among respondents Interpretation that the gloomy and satisfaction level experienced are in opposite direction
Summary
This paper focuses upon studying the concept of Self-Evaluation factors causing non-resilient behavior in adolescents during Covi pandemic Lockdown. Adolescence is driven by dissatisfaction, the young person no longer content to be defined and treated as a child, wanting to become older but not sure how, more boredom part of the price they pay for the uncertain developmental journey they undertake—having more times of not knowing what to do with themselves (The Print Team, 2020). As the outdoor urban world and the natural world have been portrayed as dangerous by alarming news reality stories during Covi pandemic, competing for public attention, protective parents have kept their children indoors, during Lockdown, where they are considered to be safer and less at risk of getting exposed to the virus. Life indoors means more screen time, being entertained at the expense of entertaining themselves, prone to escaping boredom and increasing boredom as they grow
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