Prediction of Vulnerability to Stress Based on Social Support, Resiliency, Coping Strategies and Personality Traits among University Students

Stress is a kind of person-environment relationship that is assessed by stressful person or beyond one's resources, as a result of which, the wellbeing and Welfare would be endangered. The purpose of this study was to predict the vulnerability to stress based on social support, resilience, coping strategies and personality traits among university students. The population of the present study was comprised of all students of Kharazmi, Islamic Azad, and Payam_e_Noor Universities of Karaj in the 2012-2013 academic years. The sample consisted of 375 students (240 girls and 135 boys) who were selected through multi-stage random sampling method. For gathering data, Check-list of Coping Skills (CS-R), Adult Resilience Scale (ARS), Social Support Scale (SS-A), Five-Factor Personality Inventory (NEO-FFI), and Stress Syndrome Scale (SSI) were used. For data analysis, Pearson correlation test and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used. Results showed that social support, resilience, problem solving and ineffective coping skills and the personality trait of neuroticism were correlated with vulnerability to stress (r=0.815) and explained 66.4% of variance of vulnerability, which is significant (P