Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Applied Psychology, Social Work & Policy (SAPSP), College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia,
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Abstract

Unmarried pregnancy causes arange of psychosocial problemsthat lead to difficult and distress situations. Whenconfronted with stressful situations, female adolescents are expected to rise up for a better life with the ability calledresilience. Thispreliminary studyaims to explore the resilience process amongunmarried pregnant female adolescentsand how the environmental context affects them. Therefore, the qualitative method of phenomenology is used tounderstand and explore the meaning of events of the respondent. The study sample consisted of two respondents involvingunmarried pregnant female adolescents (primiparous-pregnant for the first time) between the ages of 15 and 18. Thispaper is based on the results of semi-structured interviews methods. Interviews were recorded and interpretedimmediately afterthe field study. The results show that both respondents showed a negative influence during theresilience process with no support from the community. However, the respondent managed their resilience process withpositive influence thru strong social support from parents and immediate family members such as siblings, aunt andgrandmother. Thus, the burden of their psychosocial problems can be reduced and may improve their resilience