Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2019)

Author(s):
Daneshwari Onkari and Sunanda Itagi

Abstract:
The study on resilience among rural orphans was conducted in the year 2016-2018 in Dharwad taluka with objective to know the resilience among rural orphans. About 124 orphans were randomly selected in the age range of 6 to 18 years to know their resilience. Resilience scale developed by Embury (2007), socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al., 2005 and self-structured questionnaire were used to collect auxiliary information. Results revealed that 55.6 per cent were females, 43.5 per cent of them were in the age range of 10-15 years 49 per cent were paternal orphans, 59.7 per cent of them had less than 4 years of orphan hood experience and 49.2 per cent were living with mother. With regard to resilience, majority (61.3 %) of the children were in the low level of resilience while 12.9 per cent each of them were in below average as well as average level of resilience. With regard to vulnerability, 55.6 per cent of the children were in high category of vulnerability followed by 16.9 per cent of them were in average category of vulnerability. Negative and significant relation found between resilience and vulnerability. Vulnerability and birth order of children predicted 80.2 per cent of variation in the resilience among orphans.