Resilience and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Young Adult COVID-19 Survivors: The Role of Emotional Maturity

Abstract

Emotional maturity encompasses the ability to regulate emotions, maintain interpersonal relationships, and adapt to stressors effectively. Resilience refers to an individual’s capacity to recover from adversity, while HRQoL pertains to the perceived physical and mental health over time. This study aims to examine how COVID-19 Survivors with varied emotional maturity (low, moderate and high emotional maturity) significantly differ in their resilience and health related quality of life. Data were collected from 90 COVID-19 Survivors through an online survey. The obtained data was scored and further subjected to one way analysis of variance. The results revealed that COVID-19 Survivors with varying emotional maturity differ significantly in their resilience, physical functioning, emotional wellbeing, and pain areas of health-related quality of life. More specifically, post hoc analysis revealed that COVID-19 Survivors with low emotional maturity showed lower resilience, physical functioning, emotional functioning and pain than COVID-19 Survivors with high and moderate emotional maturity. However, as the study employed a cross-sectional design, the findings indicate associations rather than causal relationships.