Resilience, academic motivation and social support among college students

Pages:106-110
Hannah Paul, Sadhana Sriram, Su. Subalukshmi and Vyjayanthi Mala (Madras School of Social Work, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu)

This study aims to find a relationship between the three variables, namely Resilience, Academic motivation and social support. This study is based on a survey research among 200 college students and Convenience sampling method was used to draw the data; Tools used are RS 14 Resilience scale (Gail M. Wagnild & Heather M. Young, 1993), Academic motivation scale (ams-c 28) College (cegep) version (EME, Vallerand et al. 1989) and Berkman-Syme Social Network Index (SNI) to measure their social connectedness. Karl Pearson product moment correlation was used to study the relationship. The study found out significant relationships between various dimensions of the AMS and resilience.