Page No: 78-90
Sonia Manhas and Rupan Dhillon
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
In the present study, we examined the relationship between character strengths and
resilience in youth. The sample of 500 middle-adolescents (250 females and 250 males),
completed the questionnaire comprising measures of character strengths and resilience.
A correlational research design followed by step wise multiple regression analysis was
used to study the association between character strengths and resilience. Findings
unveil significant gender differences in 10 out of 24 character strengths, while no significant
gender difference was reported for resilience. Significant positive correlations were
found between all the character strengths and resilience. In the regression analysis for
the female sample, hope, curiosity, perspective, love of learning, and prudence, emerged
as the significant predictors of resilience. Together, these predictors accounted for
35.1% of the variance in resilience. Whereas, for the male sample, love of learning,
judgement, hope, and forgiveness emerged as significant predictors of resilience.
Together these factors accounted for 25.3% of the variance in resilience