Psychological Well-being among Adolescents in context with Coping with Stress, Optimism and Resilience

Abstract

The empirical investigation under reference intended to examine the status of psychological well-being among adolescents in context with coping with perceived stress optimism and resilience. It was hypothesized that adolescents belonging to (i) high and low groups of coping with perceived stress, (ii) optimism/pessimism and (iii) high and low resilience groups, will differ significantly in terms of their psychological well-being. For the purpose, 100 adolescents were selected from among 10 + 2 high schools of Muzaffarpur using purposive sampling. The respondents were administered Coping with Stress Scale and Resilience Scale both by Shruti Narayan and Professor Vijaya Lakshmi, Optimism/Pessimism Scale by Parasar and Psychological Well-being Scale by Sisodia and Chaudhary to measure the variables. Besides these PDS was used to seek the personal information about the respondents. The obtained data were analysed using t-test. The results supported the hypotheses. It was found that adolescents belonging to adaptive coping with perceived stress, optimistic and high resilient groups excelled in their psychological well-being. Thus, it was concluded that psychological well-being is the function of coping with perceived stress, optimism/pessimism and resilience.