Resilience among High and Low Field-Independents

Present study examines the relationship between resilience and cognitive style in terms of Field-dependence/independence dimension (FD-FID) by comparing individuals low on FID with those high on FID on various factors of resilience. Resilience was assessed using Resilience Scale tor Adolescents, which assesses resilience in terms of five factors, viz. Personal Competence. Social Competence, Structured Style. Social Resources and Family Cohesion, in addition to yielding a global score of the subject on resilience. The cognitive style of the subject was assessed using Group Embedded Figure Test. The sample consisted of 112 high school students in the age group 15–16 years. Criterion groups on resilience were formed using the median score of the distribution of scores of subjects on GEFT. The criterion groups were compared using one-way ANOVA. Findings showed that field-independence did not have effect on resilience as a whole, and also on specific factors of resilience, namely Personal Competence, Social Competence. Structured Style, Social Resources and Family Cohesion. However, it was found that the F-ratio relating to the difference between the criterion groups of low and high group on field-independence on Personal Competence is found to be marginally significant approaching conventional level of significance. The high group on field-independence had higher scores on Personal Competence than the low group on field-independence.