A cross-sectional study on resilience, depression, anxiety, and stress among exam going students

Background: Adolescent age is a stage of several types of changes that affect all the domains such as physical, psychological, and social. At this age, every individual has to face several types of psycho-social stressors including academic pressure and examination stresses. The present study was planned to find two objectives; (i) to assess and compare the level of resilience and the prevalence of psychiatric distress between male and female exam going adolescents, and (ii) to assess the correlation between resilience and psychiatric distress. Material and Methods: It was based on a cross-sectional research design. A total of 100 respondents fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria were randomly selected from some selected schools in Varanasi district. All the selected respondents were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire including socio-demographic proforma, DASS-21, and Brief Resilience Scale. Results: Out of a total of 100 respondents 63 were male and the rests were female. The gender of the respondents was found significantly associated (p