Indian Journal of Natural Sciences www.tnsroindia.org.in ©IJONS Vol.15 / Issue 87 / Dec / 2024 International Bimonthly (Print) – Open Access ISSN: 0976 – 0997 83512 Generational Differences with Respect to Perceived Social Support, Self- Esteem and Resilience Vrinda Antapurkar 1 and Vaishali Choudhari 2 * 1 Student, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India 2 Assistant Professor, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India Received: 02 Jun 2024 Revised: 06 Aug 2024 Accepted: 18 Oct 2024 *Address for Correspondence Vaishali Choudhari Assistant Professor, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India E.Mail: vaishalichoudhari9@gmail.com This is an Open Access Journal / article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. All rights reserved. Generational gap and differences have always been a topic of research. These intergenerational differences are prominent and can be observed very distinctly, be it in terms of physical, social, emotional, and/or psychological abilities. This study aimed to investigate a significant difference between Generation X and Generation Z in terms of self-esteem, resilience, and perceived social support. The survey incorporated basic questions about the participants such as their names, ages, and gender. It most importantly consisted of 3 self-report measures namely the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, The Multi Social Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Connor Davidson Resilience Scale. 172 participants of Indian nationality participated in this study. Out of which 86 belonged to Generation X and 86 to Generation Z. Independent samples t-test was used to analyze the data. The findings demonstrated a significant difference between the two generational cohorts in terms of self-esteem, resilience, and perceived social support. Keywords: Gen X, Gen Z, Self-esteem, Resilience, Perceived Social Support INTRODUCTION The word ‘generation’ is commonly used when denoting an entire age group of people and locating individuals within a historical time frame. Many social scientists have tried to define a generational cohort in their ways. According to Karl Mannheim(1952), a generation can be described as, ‚A group that is distinctive in any number of respects by having experienced a specific set of social, economic, technological, and/or political circumstances at a formative period in their lives‛. The term ‘generational cohort’ is often used interchangeably with terminologies like ‘age cohort’ or ‘birth cohort’ in fields like social sciences, marketing, humanities, demographics, etc. A generational cohort is a group of people who were born within a few years of each other into the same historical and social- cultural context and have developed common attributes caused by shared participation in similar life events (Lyons ABSTRACT RESEARCH ARTICLE