Psychological Resilience in relation to Emotional well being and Spiritual Intelligence among College Students

The current study was conducted with an aim to study degree of relationship of Psychological resilience with emotional well being and spiritual intelligence of college students. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 college students (100 male and 100 female) selected randomly from colleges situated in Union Territory of Chandigarh. The resilience scale by Wagnild & Young (1993), SISRI-24 by King (2008) and psychological well being scale by Sandu and Gupta (2001) were used as tools of data collection. The findings of the study revealed no significant gender difference in psychological resilience of college students. A significant positive correlation was found between resilience and emotional well being, resilience and spiritual intelligence. Jointly both the independent variables contributed significant variance towards the resilience and significantly predict the resilience among college students. Thus, it was concluded that emotional well being and spiritual intelligence play a decisive role in resilience among young adults. Based on the findings, it is suggested that curriculum for college students should include such activities which foster their emotional well being and spiritual intelligence.