A STUDY OF ADVERSITY QUOTIENT (AQ) AMONG PHARMACY STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to study the level of adversity quotient (AQ) and to study related factors including gender, age, academic level and cumulative GPA among samples of 220 pharmacy students studying in academic year 2018 at a private university. Data was collected by using 5-level rating Likert scale questionnaires that measured their reliability with Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of 0.856. The results of the study showed that mean of adversity quotient quite high 3.72 ±.522. It was found that the dimension of reach had the highest mean of 4.09 ± .683 which was considered to be quite high and the endurance dimension was the lowest mean 3.40 ± .703 which was at the moderate level. The results of hypothesis testing with Independent Sample t-Test found that there was no statistically significant difference adversity quotient in different genders students (p-value 0.784). Tested with One-Way ANOVA students of different ages had no statistically significant difference adversity quotient (p-value 0.560). Students with different academic levels and cumulative GPA have statistically significant different adversity quotient at the 0.05 level (p-values ​​ 0.019 and 0.003 respectively).