The paper is a survey type study estimating relatedness between cognitive resilience and hardiness across different social value orientations among adolescents. The study was undertaken with presumption that these variables must have some connection and should be influenced by social value orientation. Participants for the study were one hundred adolescents of secondary schools constituted a snow-ball sample. Social value orientation questionnaire is used to classify the participants in to prosocial, pro-self and competitor categories. Relatedness between cognitive resilience and hardiness are studied independent of SVO, and with SVO. Relatedness is studied in terms of hardiness in general as well as constituents’ measures-control, commitment and challenge. Cognitive resilience measure has been developed by the investigator where as measures for hardiness and SVO were obtained form open source, thus were tested for validity and reliability. Findings reveled that more or less cognitive resilience and hardiness are two independent measures at least in case of adolescents. However there is significant relatedness between cognitive resilience and control sub measure of hardiness for pro-self and competitor SVO. No difference has been found in relatedness between two measures across any of the SVO. In conclusion investigator concluded that cognitive resilience and hardiness have no overlapping and relatedness is not affected by SVO of adolescents.
Resilience, cognitive resilience, hardiness, psychological hardiness, social value orientation
