Home⇛Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives⇛vol. 3 no. 12 (2025)

Resiliency, Optimism, and Personal Well-Being of Mothers of School Children During COVID-19 Pandemic: Basis for a Proposed Family Counseling Program

Nurhanifa S. Abolais

Discipline: social sciences (non-specific)

 

Abstract:

The study’s primary objective is to investigate the levels of resiliency, optimism, and personal wellbeing among mothers of schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing the basis for a proposed family counseling program. Two hundred (200) mothers participated in the study whose children were officially enrolled during the School Year 2022-2023 in selected schools in the Marawi Division, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur. The study employed a modified structured questionnaire, which underwent proper validation, including content and construct validation through Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, with a CMIN/DF of 2.373, CFI of 0.724, SRMR of 0.072, and RMSEA of 0.065, yielding an overall interrater reliability of 95% using the Kappa statistic. The data were analyzed using statistical tools, including percentage, mode, and Pearson's chi-square test at a 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings, the study revealed that the respondents exhibited a high level of resilience across various components, such as adaptability, purposeful direction, emotion regulation, challenge orientation, ingenuity, and support seeking. First, the respondents displayed a high level of optimism within themselves and in all situations, showing a better state of mental and social well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, the age of the respondents was significantly related to their resiliency regarding adaptability and purposeful direction, with a correlation coefficient of 26.939 and a p-value of 0.008. Third, their age and the number of children they had showed significant relationships with their resiliency concerning emotion regulation and challenge orientation, with correlation coefficients of 0.2212 and 0.19708 and p-values of 0.036 and 0.020, respectively. Fourth, their civil status and resiliency, in terms of ingenuity and support seeking, were also significantly related to each other, as indicated by a correlation coefficient of 0.17533 and a p-value of 0.007. Fifth, the respondents' age was significantly associated with their self-optimism, with a correlation coefficient of 24.926 and a p-value of .015. Lastly, their educational attainment had a significant relationship with their optimism regarding situations, with a correlation coefficient of 0.44714 and a p-value of 0.000. However, their demographic profile was revealed to have no significant relationship with their personal well-being in terms of mental and social aspects.



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