• Sarosh yousuf
• Dr. shruti dutt

"Emotional abuse" is any non-physical behavior or mentality that aims to control, curb, rebuff, or segregate another person through embarrassment or dread. According to Follstad, Coyne, & Gambone (2005), emotional abuse can take the form of verbal assault, dominance, control, isolation, ridicule, or the misuse of intimate knowledge for degrading purposes. This study entitled “Effect of Emotionally Abusive Relationship on resilience and menta health among college students” aimed to find out the relationship between emotional abuse and mental health, to find out the relationship between emotional abuse and resilience and to find out the differences between emotional abuse, resilience and mental health between males and females. Tools used for this: 1) Multidimensional measure of emotional abuse, 2) Brief resilience scale, 3) Mental health health inventory. The participants were 52 males and 49 females with 18-26 years of age. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant difference in all four dimensions of emotional abuse with a mean score of males being higher than females in restrictive engulfment, denigration, hostile withdrawal dimensions and scores of females being higher than males in dominance/intimidation dimension. There is a significant difference in the resilience with the scores of males being higher than females. There is a significant difference in the general positive affect, emotional ties, life satisfaction, psychological wellbeing, and overall mental health of males and females with the scores of females being high in all these dimensions along with overall mental health. The association of resilience with restrictive engulfment, denigration, hostile withdrawal dimensions of emotional abuse is positive and significant. The association of resilience with general positive affect, life satisfaction, and psychological wellbeing dimensions of mental health is significant and negative. The association of restrictive engulfment, denigration, hostile withdrawal dimensions of emotional abuse with general positive affect, emotional ties, life satisfaction, psychological wellbeing, and overall mental health is significant and negative. The association of dominance/intimidation dimension of emotional abuse with general positive affect, emotional ties, life satisfaction, and psychological wellbeing dimensions of mental health is significant and negative.

emotional abuse, resilience, mental health

"Effect of emotionally abusive relationship on resilience and mental health among college students ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 6, page no.c658-c671, June-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2306274.pdf

"Effect of emotionally abusive relationship on resilience and mental health among college students ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 6, page no. ppc658-c671, June-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2306274.pdf