Correlational study of resilience, emotional competence and self esteem

The purpose of study was to explore correlation if there exists any between resilience and self esteem, resilience and emotional competence and emotional competence and self esteem. 289 victims of Kashmir Flash Floods (2014) served as participants, who were selected through purposive sampling. 14-item resilience scale (RS-14) developed by Wagnild (2010) was used to assess the resilience of participants. Rosenberg’s self esteem scale (1965) was used to assess the self esteem of participants and emotional competence assessment scale (ECAS) developed by Paiva and Kumar (1999) was used to assess the emotional competence of participants. Results revealed a positive correlation between resilience and emotional competence, resilience and self esteem and emotional competence and self esteem.