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In March 2020, the World health Organization (WHO) announced Coronavirus-2019 as global pandemic (Spinelli & Pellino,2020). By the end of March 2020, Indian Government declared the complete lockdown in India to minimize the virus spread. Lockdown forcibly put 1.3 billion people to stay at home and freeze all social and economic actions (Lancet, 2020; Raheja & Kathuria,2021). The decision of lockdown distorted the routine pattern of people across India as almost all industries, non-essential shops, hangout places, sacred places, transportation hubs were unexpectedly shut. According to a study during Covid-19, over 4.1 million youth has lost their job (Chakraborty et al., 2021). In times of pandemic, it has been observed that people are experiencing anxiety, stress, and depression, etc. (Hall, 2020). Covid-19 pandemic has not only been affecting the physical health of mass but also massively affecting the psychological behaviours. The psychological effects due to interpersonal, financial, occupational stress significantly increased the rates of depression and anxiety among people.
Occurrence of stress in daily life actions are prominent risk factors for depression and anxiety among people. Number of existing studies stated that both recurring and episodic stress may cause the internalizing disorders (Hammen, 2005; Uliaszek et al., 2012; Harkness & Monroe,2016). Covid-19 pandemic strongly effected the symptoms associated with internalizing disorders like social isolation and interpersonal stress (Loades et al., 2020; Magson et al., 2021). Moreover, joblessness has been constantly increasing the cases of depression, anxiety, and suicide (Paul & Moser, 2009; Frasquilho et al., 2016).
Gruber et al. (2020) raised the necessity to assess the impacts of Covid‐19 virus on the mental health. Numerous studies reported that 20-14% adults have been experiencing clinical levels of depression due to stress (Cao et al., 2020; Hyland et al., 2020; Kujawa, 2020). Being a second most populated country, Indian population has been drastically impacted by Covid-19. Singh et al. (2021), concluded that it impacted majorly the poor individuals who are living in the densely populated urban areas. Xiang et al. (2020) contended for an appropriate step on mental health of the people during pandemic. Furthermore, WHO (2020) has been issuing guidelines to tackle with the psychosomatic concerns that may arise among people. Usher et al. (2020) concluded that restrictions on social movements results in psychological stress among human beings.