Anforgiveness, Resilience and Compassion as Measures of Personal Growth Among Bullied Boarding School Students

The present study is an attempt to understand the consequences of bullying. Personal growth will be investigated in terms of forgiveness, resilience and compassion. The study was conducted on a total sample of 120 out of which 60 were participants who have faced some form of bullying in their respective boarding schools. Forgiveness was measured using Heartland forgiveness Scale; compassion was measured using the Self-Compassion Scale developed by Kristin Neff and resilience by using the Resilience Scale by Wagnild and Young (1993).The data obtained was assessed in SPSS, using independent sample t-test to determine if there is a significant difference between the bullied and non-bullied students on forgiveness, resilience and compassion. The results indicated a significant difference on resilience and compassion between the two groups suggesting that being bullied indeed leads to growth in terms of these two factors. No significant difference however was found between the two groups on forgiveness.