Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Anita Sharma ¹, Deepika Bali ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, H.P.University, Summer Hill Shimla-5, IN

Abstract

In this study, an effort has been made to investigate the role of self-esteem and well-being on resilience to stress in the university students. The main findings were gauged through ANOVA. The findings suggest that: (i) High self-esteem and high well-being subjects have shown significantly more resilience to stress as compared to their counterparts by scoring significantly low on deficiency focusing and necessitating and high on skill recognition.(ii)With regard to gender, difference has been found to be significant only on necessitating with females showing more resilience to stress to that of males.(iii)The three factor interaction effect of self-esteem x well-being x gender has also turned out to be significant on deficiency focusing and necessitating.

Keywords

Resilience, Self-Esteem, Well-being and Gender

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Deepika Bali ¹, Anita Sharma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, IN

Abstract

The main premise of the present study is to see the relationship between resilience and social support among government and private school adolescents. To achieve this objective, a sample of 400 adolescents from Shimla and Himachal Pradesh was selected with equal number of males and females. The main findings were gauged through correlation and regression Analysis. The results revealed that in skill recognition dimension of resilience to stress, social support explained 8% (r=278**, P<.01) of variance in Government Schools' Sample and 4% (r=.251**, P<.01) of variance in males' sample.

Keywords

Resilience, Social Support, School and Gender.

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