Independence and its relationship with psychological resilience in a sample of orphaned adolescents

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the relationship between independence and Psychological resilience with its four dimensions (psychological hardiness- formation of relationships- positive orientation towards the future- ability to make decisions) among a sample of orphaned adolescents and a study of the differences between adolescents who are orphans of the father and adolescents who are orphans of the mother in independence and a comparison between adolescents who are orphans of the father and adolescents who are orphans of the mother in psychological resilience with its four dimensions (psychological rigidity- Forming relationships- Positive orientation towards the future- Ability to make decisions) and determine the sample population of male orphan adolescents (n=100) orphan adolescents including (50 father orphans 50 mother orphans) in some preparatory schools in the Sharkia Governorate whose ages ranged between (13-15) years of age in the first, second and third grades of middle school, tools were used: the Independence Scale for Adolescents (prepared by the researcher), the Psychological Resilience Scale for Adolescents (prepared by the researcher), the Raven Progressive Matrices Scale for Intelligence (Imad Hassan, 2020) and Socio-Cultural economic scale (Prepared by Muhammad Saafan and Doaa Khattab, 2016) this study relied on the descriptive correlation comparative approach, The results indicated that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between the scores of the study sample of orphaned adolescents on the two scales of independence for adolescents and psychological resilience for adolescents and there are statistically significant differences between the average scores of adolescents who are orphans of the father and adolescents who are orphans of the mother on the scale of independence for adolescents in the direction of orphans of the mother and There are also statistically significant differences between the average scores of adolescents who are orphans of the father and adolescents who are orphans of the mother on the scale of psychological resilience for adolescents with its four dimensions in the direction of adolescents who are orphans of their mothers.