Academic Resilience among Specially Abled Senior Secondary School Students

Abstract

In this study academic resilience was assessed among senior secondary school students based on their impairments. visually impaired, hearing impaired and orthopedically handicapped senior secondary school students were involved in the descriptive survey. The sample was collected through purposive sampling based on criteria of greater or equal to 40% impairment. A sample of 50 senior secondary school students from each category of impairment was purposively selected from different government higher secondary schools of Kashmir valley. Academic Resilience scale by Mallick, M.K. & Kaur, S. (2016) was used for collection of data. Obtained data was subjected to percentile statistics and Kruskal Wallis test to draw inferences. The results reveal that orthopedically handicapped students have higher academic resilience than visually impaired students which in turn have higher academic resilience than hearing impaired students. The results of Kruskal Wallis test reveal significant differences among specially abled senior secondary school students. p values of 0.718 and 0.0168 ascertained that visually impaired & orthopedically handicapped and hearing impaired & orthopedically handicapped senior secondary school students have significant difference in their academic resilience. Further, significant differences was found on the dimensions of motivation & ability to get goals and emotional regulation & physical health. P values of 0.34 and 0.77 ascertained that visually impaired & orthopedically handicapped senior secondary school students have significant difference on the dimensions of motivation and ability to get goals and emotional regulation & physical health respectively and also (p value = 0.41) ascertained that visually and hearing impaired senior secondary school students have significant difference on the dimension of motivation and ability to get goals.