Page No.110-118
Annalakshmi Narayanan
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
Resilience is the ability to spring back from adversity and successfully adapt to
it. The present study examined the plausible differences between high and low
resilient individuals on their personality traits in terms of needs. The sample
consisted of 155 young adult graduates whose age ranged from 20 to 25 years.
There were 75 females and 80 males in the sample. Resilience Scale for Adults
and Personality Research Form were used to assess resilience and personality
traits of the subjects respectively. Criterion groups on Resilience were formed
for studying the relationship between resilience and various personality traits.
Findings of One-way ANOVA suggest that the criterion groups differed significantly
in Affiliation, Cognitive Structure, Dominance, Endurance, Exhibition, Impulsivity,
Nurturance and Understanding. Discriminant analysis revealed that Exhibition,
Impulsivity and Understanding predicted over 67% of the variance in resilience