Examination of psychological resilience of college students and their death anxiety and levels of hope in COVID-19 pandemic Çağ University sample

The study was to examine the psychological resilience levels, death anxiety and hope levels of university students according to various socio-demographic variables studying at Çağ University during the Covid-19 epidemic. The study was carried out using the snowball sampling method with 354 students with university students studying at Çağ University during the 2020-2021 academic year. In the research, the relational scanning model was used and in the collection of data, the survey technique, which is one of the methods often used from the scanning models was used. The research data were collected using the 'Dispositional Hope Scale', the 'Thorson Powell Death Anxiety Scale' and the 'Resilience Scale for Adults' online through 'Google documents'. As a result of the research, it was found that the fear of losing physical and spiritual functions of university students and concerns about the other world negatively affect the idea of working to achieve the goal and identifying alternative ways to achieve the goal when obstacles are encountered. It has been found that university students concerns about the other world reduce the idea of identifying alternative ways to achieve the goal and their perceived motivation in pursuing their goals. However, it has been revealed that the university students concerns about in the process of death, suffering and suffering increase the motivation they perceive when pursuing the idea and goals of identifying alternative ways to achieve the goal. As a result, psychological resilience and dispositional hope have a negative effect on death anxiety. The research also revealed the full mediating effect of dispositional hope on the relationship between pschological resilience and death anxiety. This result reveals the power of dispositional hope to explain the death anxiety. The study found death anxiety of university students are shaped by dispositional hope; as a result, it has been releaved that the relationship between psychological resilience and death anxiety is formed in the context of dispositional hope. Keywords: Covid-19, university students, pandemic, psychological resilience, death anxiety, level of hope.