Prediction of vulnerability to stress based on personality traits, source of control, social support and resilience of elderly residents in Kermanshah nursing home.

The purpose of the current research is to predict vulnerability to stress based on personality traits, source of control, social support and resilience of elderly residents in a nursing home in Kermanshah. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey research method of correlation type. The statistical population of the research is made up of all the elderly living in the nursing home of Kermanshah city. The number of these elderly people is 770, and 256 people were selected as a sample using the simple random sampling method and Cochran's sample size formula and questionnaires (Sayed Khorasani and Sedkiani's stress syndrome scale (1377), NEO-FFI short form (NEO-FFI), Costa and McCree (1985), control scale (internal-external), Rutter (1967), support scale Social (SS-A) Wax, Phillips, Holley, Thomson, Williams and Stewart (1986), Connor and Davidson (2003) Resilience Scale were distributed among them. Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data in this research according to the research hypothesis. The results showed that vulnerability to stress can predict personality traits, locus of control, social support and resilience of the elderly. Therefore, it is suggested that they receive more social support in the elderly centers and resiliency skills should be taught to the elderly in order to reduce the vulnerability of the elderly to stress.