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The Efficacy Of An Eight-Week Undergraduate Course In Resilience, Asher J. Morgan
The Efficacy Of An Eight-Week Undergraduate Course In Resilience, Asher J. Morgan
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research was to measure the efficacy of an 8-week undergraduate
course in resilience. Finding useful strategies to understand how college students manage stress
and adversity is important to college administrators. The main topics that were assessed were
resilience, well-being, and assertiveness. Participants for this study included undergraduate
students enrolled either in a 8-week course on Resilience or a Public Health course. The
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being, and the Simple
Rathus Assertiveness Scale were used to determine the efficacy of the 8-week course. Overall,
there was not a significant difference in resilience and well-being, …