Impact of Interpersonal Support & Intolerance of Uncertainty on Meaning in Life in Young Adults

Uncertainty is a common aspect of all of our lives. The pandemic has highlighted uncertainty all around along with everyone losing somebody or the other. Here came up the aspect of interpersonal support. We all have a changed sense of perspective towards life in the past two and a half years. The present study aims to study the Impact of Interpersonal Support and Intolerance of Uncertainty on Meaning in life of young adults. A sample of 150 young adults (18-25) year olds was taken from the urban population of Delhi-NCR. Correlational Design was opted to conducted the study using three tools: Interpersonal Support Evaluation list (ISEL-12) by Carleton et.al (2007), Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS-12) by Cohen (1980) & Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ-10) by Michael F. Stegger (2006). Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to analyze the results. Scatter plots and descriptive statistics were also stated to further analyze the results. It was found that there was a significant positive correlation between Interpersonal support and meaning in life, a significant negative correlation between Intolerance of Uncertainty and interpersonal support, an insignificant negative correlation between Intolerance of Uncertainty and meaning in life. Further future suggestion for the study were discussed.