ABSTRACT
Background and Objectives: Urban adolescents in the Indian society are exposed to numerous-emotionalissues due to changing socio-economic environment evolving in the urban middle class and lower middleclass societies across the country. This is compounded by the severe competitive ferocity to build theirlivelihood on the basis of academic performance. Performance in academic evaluations in the adolescentperiod forms the basis of entry into professional and vocational programs leading to a career choice. Whilesome students cope with the adversities with fortitude, many students do not have the necessary coping skillsto overcome adversities. Academic resilience is the ability to overcome psychological pressure imposed bysocio-economic adversities and yet perform well in the academic evaluations. This variation in academicresilience determines who continue to thrive despite adversities and those who fall be the way side.Accordingly, there is a need not just to enhance the scholastic skills in adolescents but also work on theiracademic resilience through appropriate counselling methodologies. The objective of this study is to analysethe nature of relationship between academic resilient traits and their actual performance in scholastic tests.The study is carried out in a sample of high school students studying in Public school and come from lowsocio-economic background. This profile of students is highly susceptible to stressful conditions coupledwith low societal support mechanisms to overcome them.Methods: The resilience and scholastic performance are measured using appropriate inventories backed bysecondary data on their school marks. The data has been subjected to statistical analysis to understand thenature of relationship between the variables.Results: The study reveals that there is a significant correlation between level of resilience and the scholasticperformance of students after eliminating the outliers. There is no significant difference between girls andboys with respect their scholastic abilities as well as their resilience attributes. The study reveals that earlyadolescents are less resilient compared to late adolescents. A phenomenological study of the outliers revealsthe impact of environmental protective factors and innate scholastic abilities on their scholastic performance.Conclusion: Based on the outcome of the studies, appropriate counselling interventions can be developedto enhance the resilience capabilities & scholastic skills of adolescents so that their academic performancemay be enhanced leading to their ability to pursue the career of their choice and their capabilities.