Investigation of the Relationship between Psychological Resilience and Social Problem Solving: A Research on Individuals Receiving Postgraduate Education in the Field of Sport Sciences

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between psychological resilience and social problem-solving levels of postgraduate individuals in sports sciences. While the population of the research consists of postgraduate individuals in sports sciences in universities in Turkey, the sample group of the study includes 206 postgraduate and 136 doctorate students, 342 participants in total. 202 of the participants are male (age average: 27.6 +/- 7.6) and 140 of them are female (age average: 26.4 +/- 3.1). "Short Psychologic Resilience Scale" developed by Smith et al. (2008) and transcribed into Turkish by Dogan (2015) and "Revised Social Problem Solving Scale" developed by D'Zurilla, Nezu and Maydeu-Olivares (2002) and transcribed into Turkish by Eskin and Aycan (2009) have been used as data collection tool in the research. The descriptive methods, Kruskal Wallis-H Test, Mann Whitney-U Test and Spearman Mean Difference Correlation analysis have been used in the data analysis in the research. It has been stated that the total Physiologic Resilience Scale (PRS) points of the participants have shown statistically significant difference in terms of age, being employed, education level and monthly income level variables, but on the other hand it has not shown any significant difference in terms of marital status and gender variables. It has been also stated that total Revised Social Problem-Solving Scale (RSPSS) points of the participants have shown statistically significant difference in terms of age, gender, education level and monthly income level variables but they have not shown any statistically significant difference in terms of being employed and marital status variables. It has been defined that there are positive and medium relationship between Positive Problem Orientation sub dimension points of PRS and RSPSS; negative and low-level relationship between Negative Problem Orientation and Avoidant Problem-Solving Style sub dimension points; positive and high-level relationship between Rationalist Problem Solving Style sub dimension points in statistically significant level. At the end of the research, it can be said that age, being employed, education level and monthly income level variables of the participants have an effect on their physiologic resilience levels and age, gender, education level and monthly income level variables of the participants have an effect on their social problem solving levels. In addition to that, it can be said that there is statistically significant relationship between psychologic resilience and social problem-solving levels of the participants.