Page No 481-491
Somesha C, Divyashree C. K and Shyam H. R.
University of Mysore, Mysore
The overarching goal of the current study was to investigate psychological resilience in
adults. Keeping this as a rationale of the study, the present study aimed to study the
relationship between psychological resilience and gender differences and domicile
differences in the relation between psychological resilience and mental health among
adults. 100 participants (Male= 50, Female=50) from rural and urban domiciles and
belonging to the Arts Commerce and Science streams of the academy administered
Mental Health Inventory by Jagdish and AK Srivastava, which is a comprehensive scale
to assess mental health among Indian population with six subscales which helps the
investigator to assess the mental health aspects and Brief Resilience Scale (BRS,
2008) developed by Smith et al., to assess the Resilience among participants. Results
have indicated that psychological resilience has been found to have significant relation
with mental health and concluded that need for improving resilience among adult
population for better management of mental health