Abstract
Athletes continually face a variety of stressors and adversities that may become a hurdle in performing well.
Resilience can help athletes to cope with such difficult situations. For this purpose the current study was
designed to investigate the construct of resilience in athletes during their game. To explore the
phenomenology of resilience coaches and players were interviewed. After interviews, a list of 27 items was
retained in the Resilience scale for athletes. Afterwards, the scale was administered on 150 student athletes
to establish the psychometric properties of the scale. Factor analysis revealed three factors of resilience in
sports including self determination, physical toughness and emotional control and maturity. The results
indicated that the resilience scale had high internal consistency of .80. Concurrent validity with indigenous
Resilience Scale (Naz, Saleem & Mahmood, 2010) was also established and was found to be .44. Further the
results were discussed in the cultural context.
