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This paper assesses the effect of mindfulness and resilience on emotional competence of youth. For this purpose, 112 Youth (56 males and 56 females) took Five facet mindfulness scale(Baer,2006) Brief Resilience scale (Smith, 2008) and Emotional competence scale (Sharma & Bhardwaj,2008). Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully aware of their actions and their present which helps in reducing stress, gaining insight and attention. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adverse situations where as according to Boyatzis et al (1999) emotional competence is how a person demonstrates the competencies that comprises of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skills at appropriate times. The results indicate a significant positive relationship between mindfulness, resilience and emotional competence. Further mindfulness and resilience positively predicts emotional competence of Youth. No significant gender difference was found with respect to the level of mindfulness, resilience and emotional competence