Resiliency among Australian school students: A report on 43,799 students.

Resilient Youth Australia Limited has surveyed 43,799 school (e.g. Government, Independent and Catholic) students (ranging from grade 3 to grade 12) in Australia. This Resiliency Survey took on a wellbeing framework with the purpose of capturing positive psychological systems/competencies of school aged students. Specifically, Resiliency Survey collected information with regards to strengths of children and adolescents in terms of 40 developmental assets, incidences of depressive disorders in terms of general health, hopefulness, and their relationship to key risk and protective factors. Results from these surveys provided key baseline insights into internal and external assets drivers of resilience; and students’ ability to cope, manage and address everyday pressures and stressors. The findings, showed that students sort and drew support from relationships, community, school and family to build their own capacity for wellbeing. Equally, it also captured that students were able to positively foster their own development through their own value system/s and positive hope for the future. Findings from this study provide a baseline profile of resilience; which schools and agencies can use to inform their own practice and policy.