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Background and purpose: Resilience is the emerging fields of psychology and has occupied a special stance in psychology within the past two decades. The importance of these psychological constructs and lack of studies in the society of elites which play an essential role in a country's science and technology lead to perform this research aiming to review the differences between the elites and normal people.
Materials and methods: Corpus of the present study was 169 elites of Fars province, Iran and 169 normal people. To this end, we utilized Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale questionnaires: T-test was used to analyze the data.
Results: Results of the present study showed that resilience within elites with t = 4.16 and significant level
0.001 significantly was higher than normal people.
Conclusion: A high level of resilience in the elite can be associated with power of creativity, problem solving, self-efficacy, planning and their higher cognitive intelligence.