Resilience and Subjective Well-being among survivors of Dengue Fever

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between resilience and subjective well-being among the survivors of dengue fever. It was hypothesized that there would be significant positive relationship between resilience and subjective well-being among the dengue fever. It was correlation study in which cross-sectional research design was used. The sample size was one hundred (N=100) survivors which comprises of fifty male and fifty female dengue survivors. The sample was drawn by using purposive sampling strategy which is a technique of non-probability sampling because it is the nature of population which is survivors so this type of sampling is helpful for recruit sample in the study. Two scales Trait Resilience Checklist (Hiew, et al 2000) and Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky, 1999) were used to measure resilience and subjective well-being respectively. SPSS-20 was used to run statistical analyses. The results showed that there is significant positive correlation between resilience and subjective well-being among survivors of dengue fever. Furthermore, a significant gender difference was found on subjective well-being that males are happier than females. The results are discussed in the light of already existing literature.

Keyword; Resilience, subjective well-being,