Resilience Of Orphan And Vulnerable Adolescents In Relation To Gender. Guardians Behavior And Peer Relationship

The major objective oj the study was to examine the resilience behavior oj orphanrnand vulnerable adolescents as aJunction oj gender. guardians' care and supportrnand peer support. To achieve this objective the researcher collected data throughrnquestionnaire and interview. The data sources were selected by using systematicrnrandom sampling. pwposive sampling and snow ball sampling techniques. Thernparticipants oj the study were 154 boys and 129 girls. Totally . 283 orphan andrnvulnerable adolescents. Jive (5) community based support providers and six (6)rnguardians.rnThe data obtained Jrom these participants were analyzed by using bothrnquantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative data were processed throughrnthe application oj Statistical Package Jor Social Sciences (SPSS) and qualiLaLiverndata were processed and presented through narration in order to triangulate thernquantitative data. The r'esearchJindings revealed that majority (69.60 percent) ojrnthe orphan and vulnerable adolescents were Jound to be resilient. On the otherrnhand. some (30.40 percent) oj the orphan and vulnerable adolescents were Joundrnto be non·resilient.. Regarding sp.x difference in terms oj resilience status the t·rntest demonstrated no significant resiliency difference between boys and girls.rnHuwever, lhe data obtained tllrough interview showed that Jemale adolescentsrnare more resilient than male adolescents. Moreover. the t·test indicated that girlsrnare more advantageous in obtaining social support.rnRegarding the contribution oj guardian care and support and peer support thernregression analysis revealed that both guardians care and support and peerrnsupport have significant and positive relationships with orphan adolescents'rnresiliency. Moreover. the regression analysis indicated that both guardians carernand support and peer support have Significant contributions to adolescents'rnresiliency.rnFinally. the researcher recommended to concerned bodies to undertake detailrnresearches on different aspects oj resilience and protective Jactors in relation tornorphan and vulnerable adolescents.

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