Correlates of Academic Resilience among Secondary School Students in Kiambu County, Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorMwangi, Cecilia N
dc.contributor.authorIreri, Anthony M
dc.contributor.authorMwaniki, Elizabeth W
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-24T12:50:50Z
dc.date.available2023-07-24T12:50:50Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explored how external and internal protective factors combined in predicting academic resilience among secondary school students in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study used a descriptive correlational design. The sample comprised of 390 form three (198 boys; 192 girls) with a mean age of 17 years (SD= 1.31; range 12 - 24 years). A demographic form and the California Healthy Kids Survey-Module B, 2007 version were used to collect data. Data were analysed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and multiple linear regression. There was a significant strong positive relationship between the external and internal protective factors (r (388 = .55, p < .05). In addition, internal protective factors had a higher positive and significant predictive value on academic resilience (b = 0.42, p < .05) than external protective factors (b = 0.29, p < .05). The results indicated that internal and external protective factors jointly explained a significant amount of variance in students’ academic resilience. A key implication of the findings is that interventions focusing on enhancing internal protective factors while strengthening external factors are more likely to have a better impact in promoting students’ academic resilienceen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.citationMwangi, C. N., Ireri, A. M., & Mwaniki, E. W. (2017). Correlates of academic resilience among secondary school students in Kiambu County, Kenya. Interdisciplinary Education and Psychology, 1(1), 4.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/325956217
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/26375
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRiveraen_US
dc.subjectAcademic resilienceen_US
dc.subjectsecondary school studentsen_US
dc.subjectKiambu countyen_US
dc.titleCorrelates of Academic Resilience among Secondary School Students in Kiambu County, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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