Exploring academic buoyancy and academic resilience among school students: A systematic review

Pages: 1078-1084
Akanksha Devi, Aayush Kumar, and Swaran Lata (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

To promote the positive academic outcomes among school students, it is very essential to develop and enhance academic buoyancy and academic resilience among them. The objective of this review was to explore the empirical literature related to academic buoyancy and academic resilience among school students along with highlighting the major findings of the studies. To collect the relevant studies, databases-Google scholar, Sage, Science direct, ERIC, Psyc INFO, and Taylor and Francis Online were explored. Eighty three studies related to resilience and adults were found. Out of them, only seven studies could qualify the inclusion criteria to assess the academic resilience and academic buoyancy among school students. These studies found the importance of factors- self-efficacy, control, planning, persistence, low anxiety, family and community support that are associated with academic buoyancy and academic resilience. Future research direction include: further research from non-western countries; use of qualitative and mixed methods for analysis; and examination of the effect of demographic variables like SES, family structure and parents’ education level.