Coping Strategies for Academic Performance as Criterion of Resilience: A Case Study of Chemistry Students in Pakistan

Abstract

This study aimed to find the association between resilience and coping strategies in specific context of academic performance and furthermore to find the effect of resilience on coping strategies in specific context of academic performance among 10th-grade chemistry students. Two self-structure questionnaires regarding resilience and coping strategies for academic performance were used to collect data from district Lahore. All the chemistry students of district Lahore were the population of the study. 400 individuals were selected for the data collection on the basis of multistage random sampling technique. This study adopted the positivistic paradigm of the research study directing the quantitative study with ex-post facto design. Independent sample t-test, linear correlation and linear regression were applied by using the SPSS. The results of the study reflected that there was strong positive and significant correlation between the constructs. Furthermore, resilience was predictor of coping strategies for academic performance and there was 55.6 % variance in copings strategies for academic performance. The further research studies may be conducted by adding one or more variable by adopting the quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method research design.