Resilience as the Predictor of Divorcees’ Life Satisfaction
Published online on September 18, 2019
Abstract
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Objectives
This study aims to investigate individual resilience as the predictor of divorcees’ life satisfaction and to reveal whether there is a significant difference in their life satisfaction caused by variables such as age, educational level, income level, having a child, and the number of children.
Methods
The sample for the research consists of 163 divorcees, aged between 23 and 67, who live in Adana, Turkey. Multiple regression analysis, t‐test for the independent groups, and Kruskal‐Wallis test were used in the data analysis.
Results
It was also found that ambition and personal competence, tolerance of negative conditions, and moral tendency subdimensions of the resilience scale together predicted the level of life satisfaction at a low significance level.
Conclusions
The conclusions indicated that resilience of divorcees predicted their level of life satisfaction at a low significance level.
- 'Social Science Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2078-2093, October 2019. '