Resilience in Indian Adolescent Students: A Scoping Review

Abstract

The ability of students to bounce back after facing stressors is termed resilience. It has been studied for many decades across various demographics and settings. However, it is required to understand resilience and its nuances among Indian adolescent students. This review aims to understand the nature of resilience-based studies, identify gaps in the literature, and make recommendations for future research. Secondary data about resilience in Indian adolescents from the last ten years (2014-2025) has been collected through online databases and a scoping review method has been applied. The data was analysed to observe the findings and gaps. Four kinds of studies were identified- incidence of resilience, determinants of resilience, correlation studies and resilience- based intervention studies. A gap observed was that most of the studies did not employ a standardized method of choosing schools for their study. Recommendations include conducting studies on the rural student population and using probability sampling methods such as random sampling in future research studies. The review provides a better understanding of resilience in a developmental context to psychologists and counsellors working with adolescents. The inferences mentioned have valuable implications for scholars studying resilience.