A STUDY ON RESILIENCE AMONG WORKING AND NON-WORKING MARRIED WOMEN

It has been aptly said that resilience is the quality and mental reservoir of strength. Liem et al., (1997) have described resilience as a relatively stable set of personality characteristics which develops from life adversity and experiences of everyday life. Consequently, it involves exemplary personal growth in different domains of life.The purpose of this study was to assess the difference in the level of resilience among working and non-working married women and its probable causes.For this,The Brief Resilience Scale by Smith, B. W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P., & Bernard, J. (2008)was used and the results show significant difference in the level of resilience among working and non-workingmarried females. Working married women were found to be higher in their level of resilience than non-working married women.