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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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ISSN: 2222-6990

Relationship between Academic Resilience and Academic Performance of University Students

Maizura Yasin, Bushra Khan, Nor Aniza Ahmad, Siti Aishah Hassan

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v15-i2/24716

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The main aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between academic resilience and student academic performance. The population of the study was bachelor final semester students from universities of Balochistan, Pakistan. Quantitative cross-sectional method was employed for this study. ARS30 was used to measure academic resilience. Academic performance of students was determined by their previous semester GPA. Ordinal Regression was used to investigate the relationship between resilience and performance of bachelor students. Results showed that there is a significant positive impact academic resilience on academic performance of the students.

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