Understanding Resilience and Subjective Well-being among Urban Indian Adolescents

Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully in the face of difficulty, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. Subjective well-being is an individual's own appraisal of their level of happiness and life satisfaction. The aim of the present study was to explore the constructs of Resilience and Subjective Well-being among Indian adolescents (13 to 19 years). The sample consisted of 60 high school and undergraduate students from across the country. The research design followed for this particular study was a quantitative correlational design. Measures of Brief Resilience Scale and BBC Subjective Well-being Scale (BBC-SWB) were used. Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated to be +0.5055. This was found significant at 0.01 level. Thus, the results indicated a moderate positive correlation between resilience and subjective well-being of adolescents. The t-test value for resilience between high school students and undergraduates was 0.67, pointing towards an insignificant value. The t-test value for subjective well-being between high school students and undergraduates was 0.50, which was not significant. Further analysis was performed on the scores of the sub-domains of BBC-SWB scale, namely psychological well-being, relationship domain and physical health and well-being, and no significant differences were found between high school and undergraduate students on the sub-domains.