Resilience: Being Well in Difficulty by Aradhana Shukla
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- Resilience: Being Well in Difficulty by Aradhana Shukla
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Positive human functioning is perhaps most remarkable when evident in contexts of significant life challenge and adversity. It is then, when individuals are being tested, that much becomes known about human strengths what they are, how they are nurtured or undermined. The growing literature on human resilience addresses this juxtaposition of being well in the face of difficulty. Maximum efforts on resilience have emphasized the avoidance of negative outcomes and acceptance of positive aspects of life. In this study an attempt was made to findout the pattern of resilience in the children. 160 participants in the age range of 8-16 were taken in consideration and they were arranged according to the requirements of the four way factorial design with two levels of age groups (8-11 and 13-16 years), two types of sex (boys and girls), two economic status (low economic status and high economic status) and two types of parenting style (single parenting and double parenting). The Well Being Scale and Child Behavior Checklist were administered on the participants followed by general information on schedule and it was found that- (1) with increase in age the magnitude of resilience increased and the magnitude of problem behavior decreased. (2) Girls showed more resilience behavior than boys and they experienced more problems in them. (3) First born participants were more resilient than only child and or second or last born child and they showed less problem behavior than second or last born child. (4) Participants hailing from low socio-economic group were more resilient than higher socio-economic group and they experienced less problem behavior than high socio-economic group. (5) So far as the matter of parenting type was concerned participants of single parents showed more resilient behavior than participants living with both parents. More over the magnitude of problem behavior was relatively lower in them. Findings were interpreted in terms of Resilience as flourishing under fire.
About Resilience: Being Well in Difficulty by Aradhana Shukla
Journal of Indian Health Psychology Vol. 3, No. 2, March, 2009