Resilience in the perspective of adolescents

Pages:103-106
Shweta Singh (Department of Psychology, V. B. S. Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh)

Resilience typically refers to the development of competence in the face of adversity. Resilience is an ability to cope effectively in the face of difficulties. Present article tries to explain about the concept of resilience and how it works with adolescents. The present article tries to explain about its risk and protective factors under different domains-childhood factors, family factors, school factors and community factors. The present article also discuss that how resilience develops in adolescents and how individual’s intrinsic factors, parents and teachers can build resiliency in adolescents.