Developing a model to explain psychological resilience among divorced women

The purpose of this research was to develop a model that explains psychological resilience among divorced women. In this context, social support and self esteem mediated relationship between emotion focused and problem focused coping styles and resilience was examined. Moreover whether the model show difference due to time passed over divorce or not was examined. The sample of the research was determined by porposive sampling method. The sample of the study was 304 divorced women. Ego Resilence Scale (ERS), Ways of Coping Scale (WCS), Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and A Personal Questionnaire (PQ) were used to collect data in this study. A confirmatory factor analysis of instruments was conducted. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was utilized for the data analysis. The findings of the research demonstrated that there were direct positive relationships between social support and resilience and self esteem and resilience. In addition, emotion focused coping and resilience were found to be indirectly related through self esteem. Furthermore, problem focused coping and resilience were found to be indirectly related through both social support and self esteem. Finally, it was found that the relations between variables in the model differed due to time passed over divorce. In the group the time passed over divorce was less, the direct relationship between self esteem and pschological resilience was found at statistically significant levels. All of the other direct relationships between the other variables were statistically significant. Also, problem focused coping and psychological resilience were found to be indirectly related through social support. But indirect relationships between emotion focused coping and pyschological resilience through self esteem and problem focused coping and psychological resilience through self esteem were not statistically significiant. In other words, both direct and indirect relationships between self-esteem and psychological resilience were not significant. In the group the time passed over divorce was more, while the direct relationships between social support and psychological resilience and problem focused coping and social support were not found at a statistically significiant level, all of the other direct relationships were found significant. However, indirect relationships between emotion focused coping and psychological resilience through self esteem and problem focused coping and psychological resilience through self esteem were found significant. On the other hand, the direct relationship between problem focused coping and psychological resilience through social support wasn't significiant.