The Impact of Resilience among Orphans: A Review

The purpose of this review study was to explore the impact of resilience among orphans. “According to American Psychological Association (2018), Resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors”. A combination of re-analysis of research studies was done in the field of resilience among orphans using many computerized databases to search published research studies like Research Gate, PsycINFO, EBSCO, Crossref, Medline, PubMed and Scopus database. The findings of these studies revealed that children who are orphan had significantly a high degree of resilience than non-orphan children. Overall, the review of research studies revealed that older orphan children had higher level of resilience than younger orphan children, whereas girls had higher level of resilience when compared to boys. The keywords used to look through the databases were significant to resilience including self-esteem, personality traits, adjustment level, cultural silence, safeguarding inheritance, emotional well-being, self-efficacy, perceived social support, peer support, guardian care, religious identity, self-concept, personality, community resilience, psychological well-being, psychological resilience and delinquent tendencies.