Effect of Childhood Emotional Neglect and Perceived Peer Support on Resilience Among Young Adults

Abstract

Childhood Emotional Neglect is basically unintentional or intentional neglect by the caregivers of a child and the perception of peer support available to people are perceived peer support. Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a difficult experience. The main aim of this study was to assess the effect of childhood emotional neglect and perceived peer support on resilience in young adults. Accordingly, the study was conducted on two set of populations the Female and Male Young adults aged 18 to 25 years old, the sample size was 200 (100 males and 100 females). The main areas of judgment were the level of childhood emotional neglect and peer support and its relationship with Resilience. The data was collected from these two groups and was further analyzed with the help of SPSS tool. The methods or mode used for the analysis were Mean, Standard deviation (SD) and correlation to know about the comparison between the two genders and correlation to find the significant relation between the two variables. The finding suggests that there is a significant relationship between the two variables, that is Childhood emotional neglect and resilience and no significant relationship between peer support and resilience in young adults respectively. The results reveal that there is no significance difference among childhood emotional neglect, perceived peer support and resilience based on gender (Only a slight difference was found) and there was a significant negative correlation between CEN and Resilience.