Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pravakar Duari ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, IN

Abstract

The world of yesterday is not the world today. Twenty years ago businesses, organizations, and university systems employees expected continuity, stability, and longevity in their jobs. Today, that is not the case. Change occurs daily in our work and community. We are required to adjust, learn, and move forward as individuals and organizations. Or, we move out of the organization. Organizations are looking within themselves for the initiative to move with the technology of the 21st century. Thriving is a positive organizational behaviour concept. It includes the joint experience of vitality and learning at work. Vitality denotes the sense that one is energized and feels alive at work. Learning is growing through new knowledge and skills. Thriving lens sheds light on how individuals play a role in creating the contextual conditions for their own growth, thus making the thriving process a joint product of the context and an individual acting to architect their own work context. Thriving is defined as the psychological state in which individuals experience both sense of vitality and learning. Spreitzer et al. (2005) suggested that thriving matters because it enhances the health and personal development of employees. Thriving individual learn to navigate protean careers (Hall, 1998) and to sustain their performance, health, and well-being over time (Pfeiffer, 2010).

Keywords

Hriving, Learning, Vitality, Personal Development, Health.

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Pravakar Duari ¹, Surendra Kumar Sia ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Pondicherry University, IN

Abstract

Hope, an aspect of positive mental health, plays a crucial role in eliminating personal stress in contemporary life, especially during the phase of emerging adulthood. This study was designed to assess the role of biological age and gender in hope and personal stress of emerging adults, and to explore the relationship between hope and personal stress. It is hypothesized that there will be difference between biological age group and gender with reference to hope and personal stress. This cross-sectional study includes 2 x 2 between groups factorial design involving 120 participants selected by random sampling method, out of which 60 (30 males and 30 females) belong to in the age group of 18-21 years and 60 (30 males and 30 females) to the age group of 25-28 years. The results reveal that the participants of younger age group are more hopeful than of the older age group, and the males are more hopeful than the female. Personal stress has been experienced more by older age group and males than that the younger age group and females, respectively. It is found out that the participants when become more hopeful they are less susceptible to personal stress. Implications and future direction of the study have been discussed in light of related literature.

Keywords

Hope, Personal Stress, Emerging Adulthood.

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