Abstract: Objective: to find out the impact of gender on resilience compassinate for others and humanity, positive and negative affect among higher secondary students Method : survey method is applied for the study. Sample:411 boys and 346 girls are chosen for the study.totally 757 students are collected from 3 different type of schools. Tools and statistics: Wagnild and Young's (1987) Resilience Scale,PANAS by C.D Speilberger (1982) and compassionate for others and humanity by Sprecher, S. & Fehr, B. (2005). mean and standard deviation and critical ratio have been used to analyse the data.......
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