Abstract: COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc worldwide. Kolkata, one of the largest metro cities in India is also going through a challenging situation as the number of infected/positive cases is increasing day by day. With strict preventive measures & restrictions by the Indian Government in the form of nationwide lockdown, the residents are going through a range of psychological & emotional reactions. Present study aimed at finding out the relation between post-traumatic stress &depression among both male and female undergraduate college students of Kolkata during COVID-19 lockdown phase. Two random samples of 100 participants (50 males & 50 females) aged 18 to 20 years residing in Kolkata were selected. The Impact of Event Scale—Revised (IES-R) by Horowitz, Wilner, & Alvarez, (1979) and The Center for Epidemiologic Studies—Depression Scale (CES-D) by Radloff (1977) along with a general information schedule were administered on selected samples through online. Findings suggest that PTSD including its factors & depression, all the variables under study had found to be gender dependent for college students living in Kolkata; & their post-traumatic stress significantly contributed to depression as well during lockdown for Covid-19 pandemic.
Key words: Covid-19, pandemic, lockdown, post-traumatic stress, depression.
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