Vital Young Adults: Hopeful and Gritty

Abstract

The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship among grit, hope and subjective vitality in young adults. It also investigated the gender difference in the aforementioned variables. For this purpose a sample of 120 young adults, 60 males and 60 females, pursuing graduate and post graduate programmes residing in Delhi NCR was taken. Item Grit Scale, Adult Hope Scale and Subjective Vitality Scale were used. In order to find the relationship between the study variables, Pearson correlation was run. To find out the gender difference for the variables under study, t-test was applied. The results indicated a significant relationship between hope and subjective vitality. Non-significant differences between male and female young adults on grit, hope and subjective vitality were obtained.