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Dr. Manoj Kumar Sethi, Kiranmayee Jena
Academic stress permeates the life of students and tends to impact adversely on their mental and physical health. To perform well in academics, adolescent students face an enormous amount of pressure from their families and colleges. The thing that can release the pressure and foster easily within the college environment is resilience. It is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress. The present study examined academic stress in relation to resilience among under graduate college students and to investigate the relationship between academic stress and resilience as well as gender differences if any. A total of 120 under graduate college students were selected randomly from costal region of Odisha. Student Academic Stress Scale (SASS) originally developed and standardized by Kim (1970) and adopted to Indian conditions by Rajendran & Kaliappan (1990) and Rao (2012) and Resilience Assessment Scale (RAS) developed and standardized by Kukreja (2014) were used for the collection of the data. The data were analysed using both descriptive and parametric statistics. It was found that 70.00% and 15.83% of students were having an average and high level of academic stress respectively and 72.50% and 11.67% students were having an average and high level of resilience respectively. Results indicated that a negative and significant relationship was found between academic stress and resilience among under graduate college students. Further, though the result revealed a significant difference in academic stress, but there is no significant difference was found in case of resilience with respect to gender.
Arnel S. Galamiton, Hanna Leah E. Relacion
This study was conducted to explore the challenges and how self-compassion is experienced among parents of children with autism. Using an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), the study focused on six (6) parents of children with autism enrolled at a public Special Needs Education (SNED) program in Valencia City, Bukidnon. Participants were recruited through snowball sampling, and data were gathered using an open-ended interview guide. Following IPA principles, three superordinate themes for challenges were identified: daily caregiving as relentless work, marginalization, and confronting the child’s challenging behaviours; and one overarching theme for self-compassion: reconstructing suffering into strength. Parents described chronic emotional and psychological strain, difficulties with toilet training and basic self‑care, limited access to medical and support services, stigma in public spaces, and distress associated with self‑injury, aggression, and communication barriers. Despite this, parents’ experience of self-compassion demonstrates remarkable resilience by drawing on self-kindness, recognizing shared struggles, reframing adversity into purpose and family resilience, and holding on through faith. These findings add depth to earlier quantitative studies on self-compassion by exploring the lived experiences of Filipino parents, underscoring the importance of integrating self-compassion and spirituality into support programs. This study also recommends expanding accessible autism and related services, embedding self-compassion parent intervention, such as mindfulness, and conducting further quantitative studies to see how self-compassion relates to other Filipino values among parents of children with developmental needs.