The article addresses the psychological wellbeing and quality of life of the retired pensioners of Madurai District, Tamilnadu, India. Due to COVID-19 pandemic situation led to an uncertain situation among the general public and precisely more with the retired pensioners. In an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the central and state government announced different phase of lockdown and relaxation of lock down. The uncertain pandemic situation has affected such as physical health, physical health, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relation with others, finding purpose in life and self-acceptance were affected and results in the quality of life of the retired pensioners. A descriptive research design was adopted to find the possible relationship between the psychological wellbeing and quality of work life of the retired pensioners. By using simple random sample method respondents were picked from the retired pensioners association in Madurai district. The universe of the study was 207 respondents among the researcher confined with 136 respondents as the sample size of the retired pensioners. The structure of the questionnaire consists of socio-demographic details of the respondents, Carol Ryff’s psychological well-being scale consists of 42 items with multidimensions such as autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations, purpose in life and self-acceptance and to measure the quality of life of the pensioners the researcher adopted the World Health Organisation (WHO) Quality of Life Scale- Brief version with 26 items was used, which consist of dimensions such as physical health, psychological health, social relationship and environmental factors. The study resulted those factors like education, nature of employment, years of service were the influencing factors of psychological wellbeing and quality of life. The findings highlighted that finding purpose in life have a positive impact on the quality of life of the respondents with considerable percent of variance (R2 =43.2%) and with high significance (p=0.000) and decrease in the environmental mastery was observed to be negative (t= -2.097) and imparting their quality of life (R2 =03.2%). The study concluded that factors such as autonomy, environmental acquisition, purpose of life, and self-acceptance contribute to the quality of life of retirees in COVID-19 pandemic. The factors such as focusing on personal growth and maintaining positive relations with immediate and family environment were not a influenced the quality of life during the pandemic situation.

Key words:     Retired Pensioners, Psychological Well-being, Quality of Life