The Relationships Among Resilience With Personality And Social Support On College Students

About 453 college students took part in the study. The questionnaire included: (1) Resilience scale; (2) The Big Five Personality Inventory; (3) Social Support Rating Scale; (4) self-compiled questionnaire of demographic variables.This study explored the resilience of college students, the results were as follows:First, the college students in different educational environment, their resilience were significantly different, regardless of their hometown in the south or the north.Second, there were significant differences on resilience between the place of origin, if it is only one child, among father's educational level, monthly average consumption level; while among grades, mother's educational level, there were no significant differences. Resilience of rural origin were significantly higher than urban students; non-child resilience significantly higher than the one-child; father's level of education for primary and under primary school, junior high school children resilience were significantly higher than that level of education senior high school; on average consumption of college students, at the secondary level were significantly higher than the level of consumption of more than 800 Yuan.Third, Resilience had a very significant positive correlation with social support, subjective support, and objective support, and correlated negatively with the use of support. The same time, the personality traits of agreeableness, extraversion, and accountability were significantly and positively correlated with resilience, while neuroticism, openness was a significant negative correlation.Fourth, personality and social support on resilience had a significant predictive effect. Sense of responsibility and agreeableness were positive predictive, neuroticism predicted negatively; general social supports predicted resilience positively, the use of support predicted resilience negatively.Fifth, the high resilience group of college students, whose personality and social support were significantly higher than the group of college students with low resilience.Sixth,personality affected resilience directly or indirectly. The intermediate factor was social support.