The present piece of research has attempted to identify the factors of resilience among physically disabled adults adopting an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Physical such as locomotor is a stressful condition that may thwart developmental adaptation of the disabled. Disabled individuals are inseparable part of India's growing population. Especially in the stage of adulthood individuals typically balance numerous responsibilities and goals. The restriction in the general functioning placed by the condition and the negative treatment met out in the mainstream of able individuals induce great stress in the disabled and act as a risk factor for developmental adaptation. Hence, these individuals need protective factors to meet the challenges posed by the risk factors in order to safeguard themselves and be resilient.Disability is defined as any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being (WHO, 1980). Different terms such as disabled, handicapped, crippled, physically challenged, are used interchangeably in India emphasizing the pathological conditions involving disability.Census of India 2001 defines five types of disabilities including seeing, speech, hearing, movement, and mental. The Persons with Disabilities Act (1995) states that Person with disability means a person suffering from not less than forty percent of any as certified by a medical authority. As per the act Disability means blindness, low vision, leprosy-cured, hearing impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation, and mental illness. Locomotor disability means of the bones, joints, and muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.Physical is a potential risk factor for adaptation since it is a stress condition that might jeopardize one's efforts for effectively functioning in life and work. The severe restrictions the places on one's freedom to indulge in essential physical activities induce adequate strain and stress in the disabled individual.Furthermore, the negative prejudices and stereotypes about the capabilities of a disabled would affect their self-concept in several ways. The attitude of the society towards the disabled creates anxiety and despair in the disabled, which could lead them to a state of hopelessness and self-defeating tendencies. Neglected and shun by the society, the disabled is pushed to beggary and left to loath alone till the end of life.The disabled have been found to suffer discrimination historically. Eugenics, a black movement in the history of the world played a chief role in devaluating the life of individuals with disabled conditions. Eugenics culminated in Nazi, in Germany resulted in murders of more than 20,0000 disabled individuals (Nagasi,1995).Disabled are found to be three times more likely to be socially excluded and remain in unemployment than nondisabled people with disabled women ignoring wider community participation due to poor facilities (Barnes, 1991; Mackelprang, 1993).This social exclusion can result in social anxiety; orthopedically handicapped youth suffered higher social anxiety than normals and handicapped females more anxious than handicapped males (Ojha, 2002).The psychological model of focuses on the psychological impact of on the personality of the developing child and adolescent. Alfred Adler in his individual psychology believed in the fundamental creative power of individuals and their freedom to choose and change their direction in life (Adler, 1925; Stein & Edwards, 1998). His most extensive work is on inferiority and superiority complexes. This process begins in infancy as children become conscious of felt insufficiencies in the face of normal, everyday tasks, especially when they compare themselves to older children and adults. …