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The concept of resilience with emphasis on the psychometric properties of a newly developed scale is the cynosure of this chapter. The chapter begins with a brief outline on conceptual definition of resilience and its framework within human development theories. It then converges upon several different aspects of resilience such as the risk and protective factors affecting resilience, role of demographic variables and its correlates and predictors. The different resilience scales, constructed and validated by other researchers, have been reviewed. The chapter then moves toward the procedure of development and validation of a new resilience measure constructed by the authors. Each phase of test construction has been explained thoroughly in detail for both versions in English and Hindi. The chapter concludes with discussion centering on the newly developed scale and its explanations.

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