Resilience, Decision-Making and Psychological Immunity in Lifelong Learners

Abstract

High learners are found to be lifelong learners with personality traits like curiosity, high well-being, resilience, self-motivation, life satisfaction, good decision-making skills, problem-solving skills, learning from experiences, psychological immunity, etc. The present study was conducted on certain personality correlates like resilience, decision-making, and the psychological immune system (PIS) of lifelong learners. The present study was conducted on a sample of ten lifelong learners. Learners who are found to be involved in learning, teaching and researching in their endeavors in the age range of 70 and above. Mixed research methods using both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used. The research was based on the case study method (ten cases of lifelong learners, lifelong teachers and lifelong researchers from academia). All the cases were interviewed to ascertain their involvement in lifelong learning.