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 P < 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]