ABSTRACT
Resilience is a crucial ingredient to a happy, healthy life. It is generally defined as the ability to cope well in adversity, and to persevere and adapt when things go awry. The broaden-and-built theory suggests that subjective well-being predicts desirable life outcomes in many aspects (Fredrickson, 2001). This is because being happy build lasting resources. Up till now, most of the studies have been centred on Western and European countries but little has been done on Asian countries or, in this case, Malaysia. There is also a great need to understand resilience in Malaysia as studies on this issue are quite scarce. Hitherto, there have been only two studies on resilience of the Malaysian youth (see Azlina & Shahril, 2010, Azlina et al., 2010). The research is in the initial exploratory stage and further empirical study is needed.
