Investigation of resilience and religiosity levels of university students (Case of Dicle University)

Positive psychology is one of the most studied topics in the field of psychology in recent years. Positive psychology which focuses on positive sides of human, emphasizes strengths of human. Resilience can be defined the ability to adapt when faced with disaster, trauma, difficulties and individual's developmental capacity of their power to come against the difficulties of life. This study aimed to For that reason, a quantitative relational survey model was conducted. The study was conducted with students studying at different faculties of Dicle University. In the research, students' level of resilience was found to be high. According to the dimensions of religiosity; vast majority of university students were found to be believers, their levels of religious knowledge is high and in the dimensions of feeling and effect they are upper middle level. In addition, according to the gender variable men were found to have higher levels of resilience than women; whereas, in the effect and feeling dimensions of religiosity women were found to have higher level of religiosity than men. One of the remarkable conclusions is that the more maternal education level the more is resilience levels; however, paternal education level does not differentiate the resilience level. Finally, a meaningful positive relationship was found between the feeling dimension of the religiosity and resilience levels. Keywords: Resilience, religiosity, Positive psychology, Religion, University students