Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Assessment of the Level of Resilience Among Adolescence of Single Parent Families

Dr. Sarika Manhas, Ms. Anupa Sharma, Ms. Riya

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Adolescence being the most transitional stage of physical and psychological changes generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood. The present study focuses on the level of resilience among adolescents which is a protective factor that facilitates individuals biological, psychological and social resist, adapt and strength itself, to a medium risk. Results related to resilience of the adolescents reveals that most of the sample adolescents had low sense of mastery and low sense of relatedness but at the same time average to high emotional reactivity. This implies that the adolescents belonging to single parent families had problems in relating with others and mastering situations and tasks. They also had low to average resource index as well as vulnerability, highlighting that they were not resourceful and needed help in dealing with stressful situations. Overall, most sample adolescents did encounter problems in mastering and relating to others along with showing high emotional reactivity and vulnerability, indicating their low levels of resilience. Statistical analysis indicates that on the whole sex of the adolescents significantly affected their sense of mastery, sense of relatedness and resource index. In all these areas more females scored lower than the males, indicating that females were lesser resilient than the males.  

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Dr. Sarika Manhas, Ms.Anupa Sharma, Ms.Riya Assessment of the Level of Resilience Among Adolescence of Single Parent Families Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VI June 2013

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