A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RESILIENCE AMONG THE CHILDREN FROM MILITARY AND NON- MILITARY FAMILIES

Abstract

The present study is a descriptive study conducted on CBSE secondary school students of Jalandhar, Punjab to examine Resilience, The sample for the study consisted of 304 (158 male, 146 female and 158 military, 146 non-military) secondary school students of CBSE schools of Jalandhar Punjab (Kendriya Vidyalaya and Army Public School) of class 9^th and 10th . The tools used for data collection was Brief Resilience Scale (6 items) by Smith, B. W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P., & Bernard, J. (2008) and demographical profile of students. Results show that majority of the male and female students have average level of Resilience. Students from military families have higher resilience than compared to students from non-military families. There is no significant difference between Resilience of male and female.