According to the findings of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 mathematics study, organized by Organization for Economic and Co-operation Development (OECD), Macao-China has a high share of academic resilient students (17%) in its 15-year-old population amongs the 65 participating economies. From the PISA 2012 perspective, academic resilient students are home-disadvantaged with economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) situated at the bottom 25% of the local student population, and nevertheless they are able to beat the odds against them to advance to very high performance level that is attained by the top 25% of the students amongst all the 65 participating economies (see Cheung, et al., 2015 for the statistical method in the identification of resilient students of an economy, such as Macao-China). In this study, academic resilient students are hypothesized to be influenced more than their ESCS-disadvantaged counterparts by their friends’ or parents’ positive view of mathematics learning (termed subjective norms in mathematics in PISA 2012). In the socio-psychological literature, students possessing high level of subjective norms are prone to be mentally stimulated and spiritually supported, especially by parents and the very close friends, to advance