RELIGIOSITY CORRELATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND RESILIENCE AMONG SCHOOL STUDENTS

Religiosity has been recognized to play a vital role in physical and mental health all over the globe. Research shreds of evidence provided that religiosity has a positive relationship between psychological wellbeing (DeCaroli, 2014; Ellison et al., 2001) and resilience (DeCaroli, 2014) though some religious groups may induce rates of depression and mental illness (Koenig et al., 1994); females have a higher resilience (Sundar&Archana, 2020) and psychological wellbeing (Bolognini et al., 1996) compared to males as a person having higher levels of religiosity showed better health behavior by improving mental health outcomes (Wong et al., 2006). The study was framed to examine the religiosity correlation to psychological well-being and resilience and any signicant gender difference by using (i) the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL; Koenig et al., 1997), (ii) the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS: Diener et al., 1985), and (iii) the Resilience Scale (Wagnild& Young, 1993).200 school students comprising 100 boys and 100 girls, age range between 16 to 19 years of age were randomly selected and other socio-demographic variables were kept under controlled. The study evinced that higher religiosity scored on psychological well-being and resilience in female samples, a signicant positive relationship between religiosity, psychological well-being and resilience; and predicted religiosity psychological well-being and resilience among samples. The nding explains the important contribution of religiosity to mental health, and may also be taken as the need for religiosity teaching in the school for better psychological wellbeing and resilience for national mental health.