Investigation of traumatic life events in university students and investigation of the relationship between traumatic life events and self-esteem and psychological resilience in those who were found to have traumatic life events

This research was carried out to investigate traumatic life events in university students and to determine to what extent the traumatic experience is related to self-esteem and psychological resilience in those with traumatic life events.. The independent variable of the study is traumatic experiences, and the dependent variables are self-esteem and resilience. Within the scope of the study, it was also examined whether the traumatic life events, resilience and self-esteem of university students differ significantly in terms of gender, age and educational status variables. The research group consists of university students. 308 individuals participated in the study. The research was carried out with relational scanning model, one of the general scanning models. As a data collection tool, "Personal Information Form" was used in order to reach the demographic information of the individuals. In addition, "Life Events Checklist", "Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale" and "Brief Resilience Scale" were used. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between traumatic life events, resilience and self-esteem. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that there was no significant relationship between traumatic life events, resilience and self-esteem. Independent Groups t-test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were performed to determine whether traumatic life events, resilience and self-esteem differ according to demographic variables (gender, age, and educational status). As a result of the research, between traumatic life events and resilience and gender and age; It has been observed that there is a significant difference between self-esteem and education level.