Influence of an intervention program to nurture resilience among selected adolescents

Pages: 305-309
Rahul Kumar Singh (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Adolescence is a very crucial phase of life, where the individual copes with an unequalled rate of biological maturation and simultaneously face changes in his/her life in social, sexual, emotional and physical areas. In Adolescents age an individual earns so many new experiences on a daily basis. Such unfamiliar situations often result in new and possibly intense positive and negative emotional reactions. How successfully adolescents are able to cope with these situation demands resilience ability. An individual can enhance their levels of resilience ability which indicate adolescents who can easily find good ways of coping up with everyday difficulties. Therefore the present study was taken up to assess the influence of an intervention program to nurture resilience ability among selected adolescents. The present study was carried out in VIII phases. A total of 100 adolescents (both boys & girls) in the age group of 14-16 years were identified for the study after they were administered the resilience scales of Young and wagnild. These were further divided into experimental and control groups having 50 participants in each group. The experimental groups were exposed to an intervention program on resilience. The study concluded that, the intervention program had influenced the resilience dimension of the respondents in the experimental group.