An Investigation of University Students’ Resilience Level on The View of Trait Emotional EQ

Abstract

This research was carried out to investigate psychological resilience of university students along with Trait EQ. The participants were composed of 766 students of whom 243 were male and 523 were female from six different faculties of Necmettin Erbakan University-Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education and Selçuk University’s Faculty of Vocational Education, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Technical Education and School of Physical Education and Sports in the spring semester of 2011-2012 academic year. As the research instruments in this study, TEIQue-SF-The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire SF-Turkish Form (Deniz, Özer, Işık, 2013), Resilience Scale (Terzi, 2006) and a Personal Information Form (Demographic Data Form) prepared by researcher were used for data collection.  Multiple regression analysis and t-test were conducted to analyze the data. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were calculated in order to examine the relation between Resilience of university students and Trait Emotional EQ. The results showed that there was a significant positive relation between psychological resilience scores and TEQ subscales of university students. Well being, Self Discipline, Emotionality and Sociability subscales of TEQ accounted for 44% of the variance. Well being and Sociability subdimensions of TEQ significantly explain the psychological resilience.