Anxiety and Polychronicity: A Study of Young Adults Kanwal Harpreet*, Associate Professor, Chhabra, Associate Professor, Kaur Hardeep, Research Scholar Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India *Corresponding author Email: hkanwal11@gmail.com
Online published on 22 October, 2013. Abstract The aim of the present study is to explore the role of polychronicity in the context of anxiety among young adults. Polychronicity is defined as a construct in terms of the extent to which people prefer to be engaged in two or more tasks or events simultaneously. Anxiety is a term frequently used to encompass feelings of apprehension, unease or correspondingly unpleasant emotions. For the above purpose, the sample of 180 female adults (Mean age = 21 yrs) and 180 male adults (Mean age= 21.5 yrs) were taken up from the tricity of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. ‘Index of Polychronic Values Scale’ and IPATAnxiety Questionnaire were used for the study. To arrive at the results, t-ratios were computed. Results showed that the high polychronic young adults have low levels of anxiety than low polychronic young adults irrespective of gender groups. Top Keywords Polychronicity, Anxiety, Young adults, Stimuli, Debilitating, Cognitive. Top |