Searching the relation between the resilience, self esteem, coping and psychological symptoms of divorced parent adolescents: The intermediary role of resilience

The objective of this study is to invetigate the direct and indirect relation between resillience, self-esteem, coping and psychological symptoms of adolescents with divorced parents.The participants of this study are education the 9-12th grade school students agng between 14-18 with divorced parents in Ankara, İstanbul, Zonguldak, Çanakkale and Konya, 138 boys and 169 girls totally 307 students in 2012-2013 academic year. During data collection progress, Child and Youth Resilience Scale, Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, Coping with Stress Inventory, Short Symptom Inventory and Self-Description Forms are used as data collection tools.The data from the research group is analysed within the SDSS and AMOS statistics programmes. In order to examine the suggested hypothesises of the research, Variance Analysis, Pearson Product-Movement Correlation and Path Analysis are carried out.According to the outcome of the research, it is found that the resilience of divorced parent adolescent boys are lower and their self-esteem is higher than the adolescent girls. Besides, it is found that as the divorcing period gets longer, their resilience and self-esteem also increase. Self-esteem, ways of coping and psychological symptoms are reasonably related with resilience. While having more self-esteem and coping have a positive effect on the resilience of divorced parent adolescents; having resilience itself also causes the decrease of psychological symptoms. These outcomes reveal that the resilience of divorced parent adolescents is an important factor for protecting their psychological strength. Together with this, the relation between coping and resilliance is presented and this has shown that how the terms coping and resilience differentiate from each other. As a consequence, results are literally and theoratically discussed and suggestions are made for upcoming researchers and field workers. Keywords: Resilience, adolecents, divorce, self-esteem, psychological symptoms, coping