The resilience of the high school student’s post-disaster in west Sumatra Indonesia based on gender

This research is aimed at identifying the level of resilience of high school students post-disaster in West Sumatera. This research is descriptive quantitative, with the total sample of 1143 students by using simple random sampling technique. The instrument used is TIRI. The data are analyzed descriptively with the analysis of the level of resilience in percentage, using SPSS version 20.00. The Result of the research reveals that the condition of the students' resilience is high. The result showed that in general male students are at high category and female students are also at high categoryn of resilience, still there are significant differences of the students' resilience based on gender. The research suggests more efforts are needed to improve the condition of the students' resilience on certain aspects to be more optimal.