Academic resilience and academic adjustment for the first year university students

Recent research shows that there are significant differences between resilient and non-resilient students on a variety of background characteristics and personal attributes (learning motivation, perceived learning environment, academic stress). The present study aims to investigate the associations between resilience, perceived stress and academic adjustment. The results showed that the Romanian version of The Adolescent Resilience Scale, the main measure used in this study, has good psychometric properties. The results confirmed that resilient personality traits mediate the relationship between academic stress and academic adjustment. The results indicate the need for further exploration about the relationship between resilience and academic stress and negative life events in order to make clearer predictions of academic adjustment.