Resilience, Transcendence and Gratitude: Its Relation with Nature Relatedness in College Student Population

Abstract

Background: The aim of the present study is to examine the relationship between resilience, gratitude, transcendence and nature relatedness. Methodology: For the said purpose, participants were chosen from urban, rural and sub-urban community. There resilience, gratitude, transcendence and nature relatedness were assessed using Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6), Self-Transcendence Scale (STS) and Nature Relatedness Scale (NR). Result: Finding suggest that there was a positive correlation between gratitude and transcendence as well as gratitude and nature relatedness All of them are significant at 0.01 and 0.05level. Result of the t-test shows that there is no significant difference in gender and community type across the variables. Further investigations are necessary to see differences in nature relatedness across social groups, including people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, life stage and cultural groups as well as more research could be done on the growing field of positive psychology. Conclusion: Significant correlation was found between gratitude, transcendence and nature relatedness variables. In case of resilience no correlation was found with any of the variables. No gender and community type difference were found among these variables.