Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Personality Factors in Adolescent Population

The Purpose of this study is to analyze the relation between psychologic resilience and personality factors in adolescents. It has been used the resilience scale argentinian version (Rodriguez, Pereyra, Gil, Jofre, De Bortoli y Labiano, 2009) and the Big Five Intentory (Castro Solano y Casullo, 2001). The sample was composite by 290 participants, mean age 16,36 year old (TD = 1,26). The statistic analysis evidenced a positive correlation between the self-efficacy ability and the extraversion, responsibility and opening to experience factors. Instead, it is asociated in a negative way with neuroticism. Purpose and sense of life correlate positively with extraversion and responsibility, and negatively with neuroticism. Cognitive avoidance correlates in a positive way with extraversion and negatively with neuroticism. It also was carried out correlations by sex diference.