A Study of Mental Toughness in Association with Subjective Well-Being among Adolescents

The main aim of the present study was to assess the subjective well-being of adolescents in relation with mental toughness as cognitive correlate. The sample comprised 200 adolescents (100 males and 100 females) in the age range of 13–18 years from six private schools of Patiala district after due consent of the respective principals and participants. Socio-demographic data sheet was used to take information about the personal details and socio-economic variables. The participants were administered Subjective Well-being Inventory–SUBI (Sell and Nagpal, 1992) and Mental Toughness Questionnaire – MTQ48 (Clough et al., 2002).

After computing product moment correlation, multiple regression analysis was applied to assess the relative contribution of mental toughness in explaining the variance in subjective well-being. The results of the present study revealed that mental toughness was found to be significantly and positively correlated with subjective well-being. The results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that in case of mental toughness, the domains viz; commitment and life control emerged as significant predictors of subjective wellbeing among adolescents. The implications for the present findings were discussed in a way to provide the broader perspective of understanding the needs of adolescents.