Impact of Negative Life Events And Socio-Economic Status On The Development Of Resilience In Secondary School Children
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The purpose of this study is to examine whether socio-economic status and negative life events experienced by secondary school children have impact on the development of resilience. First, is socio-economic status lead to increase or decrease adversities, which have effect on development of resilience and second is there any significant difference among group of children from different socioeconomic background and experienced adversities have impact on development of resilience. Methodology: The sample consisted of 90 participants (secondary school children) from different schools within Mumbai. Participants will be both girls and boys of ages 13 years to 16 years from different schools. The administration of self-report questionnaires and two-way ANOVA, to compare the development of resilience in other groups (i.e. negative life events (NLE) and socio-economic status (SES)) was examined. The study will involve a quasi-experimental design with one independent variable being socio-economic status having three levels i.e. high, middle and low and two dependent variables being score on resilience scale and experiences of negative life events. Resilience Scale and Kuppuswamy ‘s Socio-Economic Scale were administered. Results: Results reported non-significance between the group of scores on negative life-events and resilience. However the results have important implications for understanding some other factors that enhance the resilience within the urban area of city. Conclusions: The study found that there is no significant impact of NLE and SES on the development of resilience. However obtained mean and SD for negative life events was found to be higher with low SES children indicates that, the experienced adversities can be higher in low socio-economic strata.
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Indrayani Khare, Reshma Murali, Archana Patki
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- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.4.1.2017.36-41
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