Open AccessThe Relationship between Resilience & Mental Health among a Sample of University of Nizwa Students - Sultanate of Oman
Author(s) -
Samer Jamil Rudwan,
Saada Alhashimia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2018.v14n2p288
Subject(s) - mental health , psychology , descriptive statistics , psychological resilience , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , test (biology) , clinical psychology , resilience (materials science) , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , analysis of variance , statistics , social psychology , psychiatry , geography , mathematics , paleontology , chemistry , physics , cartography , chromatography , biology , thermodynamics
This study employs the descriptive approach to identify the relationship between resilience and mental health in light of some variables in a student sample at the University of Nisswa. The sample consisted of 1,000 students, including 403 men and (597) women. The sample random sampling. Two instruments were used: the resilience scale (Connor & Davidson , 2003) and the Arab Mental Health Scale (Abdel-Khalek, 2011). The psychometric properties of both scales were tested. To answer the study questions, the following statistics were used: Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, one-way ANOVA Test, LSD test, and regression analysis. The results indicate a positive correlation between mental health and resilience. There was also a significant difference between female and male students in terms of resilience and mental health in favor of female students; It seems that women are more resilient and healthier than men. The study of age differences did not reveal any differences. The study also indicates that resilience has a significant impact on mental health. Finally, the results were tweaked against the limitations of the study.