Parental spiritual health and their adolescent’s resilience

Pages: 358-362
Ekta Soni (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh )
Madhuri (Department of Psychology, Ch. Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani, Haryana )

Adolescence is a time of exploration that often leaves them vulnerable to unhealthy psychological scars. Spiritual parental health surfaces as an effective resource for parents to support and guide their adolescent during this tumultuous phase to clarity, stability and success. The current study investigates spiritual health of parents among conventional two parent families and its association with resilience among their adolescent. The study is based in Delhi and the national capital region in India. Data was collected from 205 family units. Tools used to assess relevant variables were- ‘The Spiritual Health Scale’ and ‘The Resilience Scale’. Incidental-cum-purposive sampling has been used to collect data. Findings indicate that there was a significant effect of the level of spiritual health of parents on the resilience of their adolescent at p<0.01 level among the groups-both parents high and both parents low on spiritual health. This implies that the level of spiritual health of the parent is associated with the level of resilience of their adolescent offspring.