Exploring the relationship of adolescents resilience with subjective well-being and general intelligence

Abstract

In the face of risk, the framework of resilience theory offers a healthy adolescent development. Resilience is the ability to recover, to adapt and bounce back in adverse situations. To explore relationship of resilience with subjective well being and general intelligence a random sampling technique employed to select 191 adolescents studying in 8th, 9th and 10th classes of private and government schools of Rangareddy district. Results report that adolescents in both rural and urban area had below average resiliency. However, the sense of mastery, sense of relatedness and overall resilience were significantly higher among rural adolescents than urban adolescents. The positive correlation coefficient results show that with the increase in subjective well being among adolescents there was a significant increment in resilience among adolescents. Interestingly, general intelligence was significantly higher among urban adolescents than rural adolescents, but there was no significant correlation between general intelligence and resilience.