Abstract: Population of physically disabled people has been increased day by day. It is important to prevent their problems from childhood. This research focuses on psychological problems of physically disabled adolescents. Resilience is important psychological component to survive in society.The aim of current study was to study the effect of laughter therapy on resilience among physically disabled adolescents. This was control experimental pre post study. The sample of 80 having male and female is taken for this study and their age range was 13-19 years. For this study barthier university resilience scale by Dr. Annalaxmi was used. Mean, S.D., independent and paired sample t test and ANCOVA were used for the analysis of collected data. Researcher concludes thatlaughter therapy intervention significantly affect post test scores of resilience of physically disabled adolescents.
KEY WORDS:- Laughter therapy, Resilience, Physically Disabled Adolescents
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