The influential determinants of resilience in people with trauma

Resilience is one of important subjects in health psychology. A lot of studies have investigated factors that are connected to resilience. The objective of this research was to determine role of the positive affect, negative affect and optimism, as predicting variables. The participants in the research were 201 students of Shiraz University (100 males, 101 females) who experienced a traumatic event within the past 5 years. The participants were asked to complete The Traumatic Life Event Questionnaire (TLEQ), Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), Revised Life Orientation Test (LOT – R), and The Adolescent Resilience Scale. The data was analyzed through a stepwise multivariate regression equation. Positive affect, negative affect and optimism were correlated to resilience, significantly (P = 0/001) and explained some of variances of resilience (R2 = 0/48, F = 10/23, P= 0/002). There is no any relationship between gender and marital status to resilience. This research indicated that positive emotions and optimism are important to increase coping abilities when confronting to traumatic events. So instruction of these factors, promote and improve mental health.