Impact of Personal Resource Inventory on Psychological Well-Being and Depression in Pakistani Sample

Aisha Bano; Alay Ahmad

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Impact of Personal Resource Inventory on Psychological Well-Being and Depression in Pakistani Sample

Aisha Bano, Alay Ahmad

Published in International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 5)

Received: 21 May 2021 Accepted: 19 July 2021 Published: 27 September 2021

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Abstract

The objective of the study was to find out the impact of Personal Resource variable on psychological well-being and depression in Pakistani population. Study design was cross-sectional research design, survey method. The study was conducted in privately registered, semi-government and government institutions of Rawalpindi and Federal Capital Territory during the year 2016-2018. Data was collected using purposive random sampling from 200 employees working in private, semi-government and government organizations. 55.5% were males and 44.5% were females; Mean age = 26.81 (SD = 5.7); Mean job experience was M = 4.5; SD = 5.49; highest qualification was 35 % Masters among Matric, Inter, Graduation, M.Phil and PhD. Results of the study showed that regression analysis showed that Personal Resource variable accounts for 21% of variance in psychological wellbeing and 27% of variance in depression. The alpha coefficient reliability for the newly constructed four factors of self-efficacy, resilience, hope and optimism based questionnaire, was found to be α = 0.86 and split half reliability coefficient was .74 and .79 on Pakistani sample which was sufficiently adequate. Hence our objective of the study which was to find out the impact of Personal Resource variable on mental health and depression within Pakistani culture was thus established.

Published in	International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijpbs.20210605.11
Page(s)	66-70
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Personal Resource, Psychological Well-being, Depression, Resilience, Confidence, Determination, Self-regulation, Self-control, Persistence

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Aisha Bano

Department of Psychology, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Alay Ahmad

Department of Psychology, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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