Post-Millennials Stressors, Ego Resilience, Gratitude, and Life Satisfaction: The Basis for Mental Health Program

Resilient and grateful individuals experienced a high level of adversity and demonstrated a high level of competence and adaptation. The study aimed to determine the respondents’ sources of stress, while knowing the level of ego resiliency, life satisfaction, and gratefulness as a basis for a contextualized mental health program. It used a descriptive-exploratory research design. The researchers utilized an adapted instrument called the Revised University Student's Hassle Scale (RUSHS) to gather the needed data. The respondents of the study were the 278 postmillennials, who are currently enrolled at Capiz State University. The constructs of the study focused on the sources of stress, ego resiliency, gratitude, and life satisfaction of the respondents. The findings revealed that stresses experienced were the academic and personal related. Their ego resilience was moderately high, but it was affected by various factors that they could not handle, which directly affect their life satisfaction and their being grateful and ungrateful of the things happening in the world and their personal life.