Importance of Caring Relationships as a Positive Protective Factor of Adolescent Resilience

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of caring relationships as a protective factor of resilience among school going adolescents. Standardized measures of caring relationships and resilience were administered to 260 school going adolescents. Caring relationships were categorized into four types namely, very good, very poor, school centric and home centric caring relationships. Resihence scores were divided into low, moderate and high categories. Series of Chi-square tests of independence were performed for total sample, boys and girls separately to examine association between resihence and caring relationships. Results revealed that resilience scores increased with better quality of caring relationships experienced by the participants at both home and schools.