Alexithymia, Cognitive Flexibility and Hardiness in Covid Positive Young Adults

Abstract

Background: Covid-19 outbreak has created a halt in everyone’s life, especially in those who were infected by it. Its affectability of it can be accounted for not only at the individual level but also at the global level when WHO declared it a pandemic in March 2020. Objective: The present study seeks to find effective cognitive factors such as alexithymia, cognitive flexibility, and hardiness in covid-19 positives by using Pearson’s correlation. It is hypothesized that a high hardiness level will be associated with high cognitive flexibility and low levels of Alexythemia concluding that people who were covid-19 positive had an impact on their cognitive functioning. Methods: The study used Pearson’s Correlation method that calculated using SPSS 27(2021). Results : Consistent with hypothesis the result of the study indicates a positive correlation between cognitive flexibility and hardiness . Results also yielded a negative correlation between alexiythemia, Cognitive Flexibility and Hardiness indicating that presence of inability to describe and identify emotions contributes to lower flexibility as well as ability to withstand challenging situations. Conclusion: The study concludes that presence of cognitive flexibility was linked t greater psychological hardiness and lower alexiythemia