Page No 265-272
Maria Mathew and Sruthi Sivaraman
Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru
Over several decades, research in psychology has focused on the various ways people
respond to rejection and take personal responsibility for their actions. This work
contributes to current understanding by studying these psychological constructs in a
sample of adults and young people living in South India, revealing potential cultural and
age-related variances in these occurrences. The study intends to analyze the relationship
between rejection sensitivity and personal responsibility among adults and young adults
of age range 18 – 30. The sample size of N=176 was collected from young adults and
adults of the specific age group who reside in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The
psychometric tools used for the study were Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire and
Personal Responsibility Scale. The data was analyzed using SPSS with descriptive
statistics, correlation, regression and Mann Whitney U test. The findings depicts that
there is significant negative correlation between rejection sensitivity and personal
responsibility in addition to a significant level of influence of the variables. Thus, rejecting
the Null Hypothesis. Further, it showed that there isn’t any significant gender difference
or age difference (18 – 30) in rejection sensitivity and personal responsibility. Thus,
accepting the Null Hypotheses