Page No.112-118
Annalakshmi Narayanan
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
The present study is to investigate the relationship between resilience and cert ain
cognitive variables. Resilience was assessed by using Resilience Scale for
Adolescents (READ). The Attributional Complexity Scale purports to measure the
complexity of the attributional schemata people used to explain human behavior.
The scale assessed the individuals with reference to measured seven attributional
constructs including a motivational componen t, preference for complex rathe r
than simple explanations, metacognition concerning explanations, awareness of
the extent to which people’s behavior is a function of interaction with others, a
tendency to infer abstract or causally complex internal attributions, a tendency to
infer abstract, contemporary, external causal attributions, and a tendency to infer
external causes operating from the past. The sample consisted of 114 high school
students in the age group 15-16 years. Both male and female students were included
in the study. Criterion groups on resilience were formed using the median scores of
the distribution of scores of subjects on READ. Findings showed that among the
aspects of attributional schemata investigated in this study, complex explanation
and metacognition had significant effect on resilience. The highly resilient had higher
preference for complex rather than simple explanations for explaining human
behavior and used metacognition concerning explanations more than those who
had low resilience
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