Subjective well-being as a protective factor of resilience among rural andurban adolescents of Dharwad district

Abstract

The present study was conducted on rural and urban adolescents’ resilience in relation to subjective well-being.A sample of 192 students (rural=97 and urban=95) studying 8th, 9th and 10th classes in private and government schools ofDharwad district were randomly selected. The general information and socio-economic status of the respondents were alsoconsidered. The levels of resilience and subjective well-being were assessed by using Resilience scale of Prince-Embury(2006) and Subjective well-being inventory by Nagpal and Sell (1992). Socio-economic scale by Aggarwal et al. (2005) wasused to determine the socio-economic status and self-structured questionnaire was used to collect general information of therespondents. Through descriptive analysis, computed mean, standard deviation, t-test and Pearson correlation data wereanalysed. The study revealed that rural adolescents exhibited significantly higher resilience than urban adolescents. Thesubjective well-being had a significant and positive association with adolescents’ resilience in rural area. It implies that withthe increased level of subjective well-being the resilience level among adolescents was increased