Name: Garima Chopra
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-15, Issue-2, (July-December)
Page Number: 107-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17500584

ABSTRACT
The brief but intense conflict between India–Pakistan in May of 2025 has left a profound
socio-psychological impact on the civilians of India. The effects of this impact were
witnessed across communities living in Punjab to residents in cities like Mumbai. The
persistent sound of air-raid sirens, visible military mobilisations, and blackouts that engulfed
night and transformed busy streets into corridors of silence have driven the civilians into
unexplored emotional zones. Communities along the Line of Control are having to live with a
new level of anxiety, and those in inland areas have to contend with the tangled media reports
that trigger another sort of fear. This study explores the psychological aftermath of the
conflict by focusing on six core psychological domains: Emotional Distress, Perceived
Threat, Cognitive Influence, Sense of Safety and Control, Social Trust and Community
Affinity, and Coping and Resilience Mechanisms. To systematically assess these dim