...Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Presented in this chapter is foreign and local literature and studies which are relevant to the present undertaking. Literature and studies cited enables the researcher to have a better understanding and a wider perspective of this investigation. Adversity Quotient (AQ) and its nature Resilience refers to the ability to cope or to give a successful response to high risk or adversity as measured by the four CO2RE scales of the adversity quotient. It is an outcome of both individual characteristics and environmental causes. Resilience is viewed by the individual from the inside as he or she responds to the outside or external influences and events, viz. Adversity. Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Effective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a landmark series of brain imaging studies that tested two groups of people: one identified as highly resilient to life’s ups and downs, the other easily upset by them. Davidson tracked their brain function as they performed stressful tasks, such as writing about the most upsetting experience in their lives or performing difficult math problems under time pressure (Goleman, 1997). Resilient people have a remarkably rapid recovery from stress. A study of store managers at a large American retail chain store found that the managers who were most tense, beleaguered, or overwhelmed by job pressures ran stores with the worst performance...
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...THE ADVERSITY QUOTIENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS AT ST. JOSEPH’SCOLLEGE, QUEZON CITY An undergraduate thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Departments of Arts and Sciences St. Joseph’s College Quezon City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology By: ZHOU HUIJUAN March, 2009 RECOMMENDATION This Thesis entitled The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City. Submitted by Zhou, Huijuan has been examined and found satisfactory and is hereby recommended for ORAL DEFENSE. Ms. Mildred L. Lazo Thesis Adviser APPROVAL SHEET In Partial fulfillment of the requirements fro the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology, this thesis entitled “The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City” was prepared and submitted to the College of Arts and Science by Zhou, Huijuan. Approved by the committee on Oral Defense on March 8, 2009 with a grade of passed. Mrs. Nelia G. Prieto Chair, Liberal Arts Ms. Mildred Lazo Panel Member Mr. Francisco Lambojon Panel Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Sciences Major in Psychology. Sr. Josephini P. Ambatali, SFIC Dean Acknowledgement This work would not have been possible without the presence and contribution of many valued individuals. Through this limited paper, I wish to express my...
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...THE ADVERSITY QUOTIENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS AT ST. JOSEPH’SCOLLEGE, QUEZON CITY An undergraduate thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Departments of Arts and Sciences St. Joseph’s College Quezon City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology By: ZHOU HUIJUAN March, 2009 RECOMMENDATION This Thesis entitled The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City. Submitted by Zhou, Huijuan has been examined and found satisfactory and is hereby recommended for ORAL DEFENSE. Ms. Mildred L. Lazo Thesis Adviser APPROVAL SHEET In Partial fulfillment of the requirements fro the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology, this thesis entitled “The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City” was prepared and submitted to the College of Arts and Science by Zhou, Huijuan. Approved by the committee on Oral Defense on March 8, 2009 with a grade of passed. Mrs. Nelia G. Prieto Chair, Liberal Arts Ms. Mildred Lazo Panel Member Mr. Francisco Lambojon Panel Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Sciences Major in Psychology. Sr. Josephini P. Ambatali, SFIC Dean Acknowledgement This work would not have been possible without the presence and contribution of many valued individuals. Through this limited paper, I wish to express my endless, sincerest and eternal...
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...What American High School Football Teaches the Youth Cooperation to Reach a Common Goal A high school football team has players coming from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. The athletes are in various shapes and sizes. But, even with their differences, they must work together to win. They must put aside their personal beliefs and cooperate to attain a common goal. Adults who have played football know that working together with others can make their business or career successful. Group effort trumps individual effort at all times. People who want to succeed must learn to cooperate with each other. Struggling against Adversity American high school football helps people how to overcome adversity. A football team, and even its members, struggle against all kinds of adversity every day. During a game, a player can get knocked down and beaten for a touchdown. The manner by which he...
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...natural affinity towards overcoming challenges and difficult adversity. Throughout life, we adapt to challenges and master the ability to surmount obstacles. Despite the difficulties we experience, the process of overcoming complications allows us to become more knowledgeable on the task at hand. However, it is not just the conquering of adversity that is beneficial, but the adversity itself has positive effects on the challenged. Adversity allows an individual to develop a sense of discipline, as well as encouraging individuals to exercise their mind to confront a problem or conflict. Specifically, students who encounter hardships are more inclined to try harder, which promotes competition within the school. Although adversity may be beneficial towards some students, challenges can be detrimental for students who lack confidence. For instance, some students develop a mentality of despair; they believe that if one has to work hard, then the person does not have the natural ability for the assignment. Based on the effects of adversity aforementioned, I believe that students can both benefit from the obstacles faced in school with the proper mentality or the effects could be hindering. Students face adversity every day, regardless of how transparent the obstacle may be; some problems may not be as evident as others. According to Carol S. Dweck, author of Brainology, all students face adversities throughout their high-school career, specifically, the challenge of overcoming a fixed...
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...PSYC 41.1 MIDTERM OUTPUT PSYCHOLOGY STATISTICS Adversity Quotient Of First Year To Fourth Year Students From The BS Psychology, BS Education, and BS Business Administration Students Submitted by: Patrisha Marie O. Fernandez Gabrielle G. Hernandez Ena Therese A. Labradores Camille Joy R. Magnanao Judy Ann E. Ugay BS PSYCHOLOGY – 2 YE Submitted to: Ma’am Jhoanna Mocorro STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1. What is the profile of the respondents with regards to the following variables: 2.1 Age 2.2 Gender 2.3 Course 2.4 Year Level 2.5 Weekly Allowance 2. What is the average level of Adversity Quotient of the respondents? 3. What is the average weekly allowance of the respondents? 4. Is there a significant difference in the Adversity Quotient of the respondents according to: 5.6 Age 5.7 Gender 5.8 Course 5.9 Weekly Allowance 5. Is there a significant relationship between the Adversity Quotient of the respondents and: 6.10 Age 6.11 Year Level 6.12 Weekly Allowance DATA CLEANING I. Missing Values Based on the results variables table shown above, there are no missing values present in our data as well as no missing values are replaced and had a complete data ( N = 90 ). II. Outliers An outlier is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample of population. To identify the outliers of our data, the box plot was used...
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...Abstract Resilience is the process of adjusting enough in the process of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or major sources of stress. Resilience is a two-dimensional construct regarding adversity exposure and the positive adaptation to that adversity. Some researchers concluded that psychological development of humans is greatly buffered and that long lasting consequences of adversity are frequently associated into either organic damage or major interference in the normative protective processes ingrained in the caregiving system. Resilient individuals show social competence even in the presence of risk factors related to negative adaptation. Building and maintaining health relationships...
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...Amandeep was recommend to be interviewed for this project by a friend. In our interview Amandeep listed multiple adversities in his life. His father was an alcoholic that physically abused his mother in front of him regularly. He would be teased repeatedly in school because he wore a turban. Furthermore, after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the teasing increased and he was started to get called a terrorist, even in public places by adults. His mother also developed cancer and the family did not have health insurance to pay for the treatments. Recently, his older brother suddenly passed away due to a drug overdose. I want to...
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...history along the way we have seen prominent leaders arise in the fight for racial equality including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Throughout this fight we see many people arise in trying to make this country a greater place. People like Jackie Robinson also helped make an impacted in achieving equality. Robinson didn’t use speeches and politic realms to do this but he used baseball, an American pastime, to bring together our country. The film 42 is a depiction of how one baseball player took strides to not only unite a team but an entire country. In the film Remember the Titans a group of high school boys both white and black are forced to come together to be the best team they can be. This film shows how overcoming adversity can be accomplished by anyone who believes in the cause enough. Over the past century African Americans have made great strides in overcoming racial adversity, and gaining most of the same freedoms of white Americans. These films both address and attract viewer support for the equality of African Americans. However, the film 42 does a better job at attracting viewer support because of the historical accuracy, the larger audience it appeals to and its’ stronger historical significance. The film 42 is about Jackie Robison’s journey in the major league while fighting racial inequality using baseball. The film begins Robison’s baseball career with an offer from the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers to join their farm team the Montreal Royals. After...
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...When you think about it, there isn’t a day that goes by without being tempted. Temptation comes along our paths every day in our lives. Whether it is from the foods we eat, the people we talk to, or the choices we make, knowing that sometimes they aren’t right. This is why the rapper Logic decided to inspire, or rather uplift, any of his audience going through some adversities or rough patches in life, in his song “Never Been”. Throughout his song, he uses countless examples of how he overcame adversities of his own and is reassuring that immoral temptation is challenging but he believes that we can all overcome it. Logic opens this song with the lyrics, “I’ve been workin’ like I’ve never been, I struggle everyday but I just can’t let the devil in”. Logic is saying how he recognizes how difficult it is to refrain from temptation and how he learned from every situation he has been in. We not only deal with our personal demons, but we also come in contact with outside demons such as the environment that we are put in and by some people perceiving to be the devil to destroy us. In these lyrics right here, Logic is saying we struggle everyday but we can’t let anything or anyone distract us from what we want. These demons, whether internal or external, try to corrupt us but he wants us to know that we are not alone. Immediately after these lyrics, Logic raps “And if I knew back then what I know right now, what I know right now, I’d be better than I’ve ever been, better than I’ve...
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...1. AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY Modern health research defines childhood adversity as a range of unfavorable experiences that a child may have experienced before attaining the age of 18 (Pais & Bissell, 2006). A more recent definition provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Adverse Childhood Experience as a range of challenges, including abuse (emotional, physical and sexual), household challenges (violent treatment of the mother, household substance abuse, mental illness within household, parental separation or divorce and criminal household member) and neglect (emotional and physical) that affects a child before the age of 18 (CDC 2016). As such, the question on what defines an adverse...
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...Contents Introduction 3 Stages of Psychosocial Development 3 The First Two Years 3 The Play Years 4 Psychosocial Developmental Challenges 6 Possible Causes: Maltreatment 6 Possible Causes: Family Structure 7 Possible Causes: Environmental Adversity 8 Influencers of Child Psychosocial Development 9 Teachers 9 Gender Roles 10 Child’s Play 11 Conclusion 11 References 13 Introduction Psychosocial development looks at the emotional and social development processes. There are many theories when it comes to how psychosocial development occurs, including the two most well-known theories by Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. For the purpose of this paper I will be focusing on Erikson’s psychoanalytic theory of development for children through the play years, or age six. In addition to theories of development I will take a look into developmental challenges and the factors that affect development and the possible effects they may have. I will do this by taking a look at applicable case studies presenting their findings. The possible causes of developmental challenges that I will focus on are maltreatment, family structure and environmental adversity. I will also look into the influencers of psychosocial development on children and the impact they have on a child’s psychosocial development, including care givers, gender roles, and child’s play. Stages of Psychosocial Development The First Two Years ...
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...impression that some are better than others. Resilience is applicable to both adults and children. This paper will focus on the childhood aspect of resilience. Over the years, it has been a topic of interest among researchers as to how some children manage to overcome adversity and thrive, while others suffer psychological and physical distress. As a result, much of the early research carried out on resilience looked at “three sets of factors implicated in the development of resilience: (1) attributes of the children themselves, (2) aspects of their families, and (3) characteristics of their wider social environments” (Vanderbilt-Adriance & Shaw, 2008, pg. 31). Recently, research has shifted from identifying key characteristics of resilient children to understanding how these factors affect a child’s ability to handle adversity. Despite extensive research on the subject, there is still controversy over how to apply these findings for practical use. This can be contributed to the fact that past research used multiple tests across different populations. According to Prince-Embury & Saklofske (2013), “the research-based tools employed in previous research have often been impractical for widespread use in the schools and communities because they are too labor intensive, expensive,...
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...would end up this way. As a young girl, I had never really been a part of a team. I played on sports teams, but no one ever really wanted me there. My Freshman year of high school that didn't change at all, at least so I thought. In middle school, I had been taking skating lessons and I knew my passion would never be in figure skating, but rather hockey. Going into high school, I decided to join our hockey team. Now this would have been great, except for the fact I had never played before and people that play hockey start as a toddler. My other dilemma was my school only has a men’s hockey program. Before the season even...
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...and more and the challenges in life suddenly take its toll are these things what we call adversity or is it more than that.It could simply be the lack of money, the lack of good education or the death of a loved a one? The truth is all of them are but in reality neither of these are the real problem they’re simply the cause of the problem. | The real problem is how people deal with these factors.Some people use excuses and live their life the way it started, live their life with that same state of mind, live their life with a burden till death.Some people choose a path that faces these problems and they work hard to change what already there, they become successful with what they’ve done and live the present. | Time and time again it has been proven that when two children are compared one with resilience and one without any in the end one will remain the same and the other will rise to the occasion.You can be poor, be an orphan, be abused but those odds those adversities can be overcome with the right state of mind. | A good example will be Oprah Winfrey she was born to poor family with her mom and dad divorced she had two sisters one whom died of cocaine addiction while the other was adopted until found again just recently during 2010 she also had a brother who died of AIDS related diseases. | Her uncle, cousin and a family friend, also molested Oprah when she was nine.Whilst at school she was bullied for having to wear potato sacks as clothes due to a lack of money.At the...
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