Self-Esteem and Hopelessness, and Resiliency: An Exploratory Study of Adolescents in Turkey

Abstract

Adolescence is a time of rapid development and change. In this developmental period, adolescents have to struggle with a large number of stress factors. In this process resilience is important to have as an adaptive, stress-resistant personal quality. The recent research considers that numerous factors contribute to resilience in adolescents; the internal characteristics associated with resilience include such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, perseverance, internal locus of control, coping and adaptation skills. The purpose of this study is to explore self-esteem and hopelessness as the predictor of resiliency of adolescents. The participants in this study are 223 high school school students (90 females and 133 males). Main instruments are Beck Hopelessness Scale, California Healthy Kids Survey Resilience-Youth Development Module High School Questionnaire and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Scale. The data has been analyzed by regression analysis. The findings showed that self-esteem and hopelessness is a significant predictor of resilience in adolescents. There was a positive relationship between self-esteem and resilience, but there was a negative relationship between hopelessness and resilience. In accordance with the results obtained from this study, there is a correlation between adolescents' self-esteem, hopelessness and resilience levels. Finally, findings warrant further investigation of the interaction effects of self esteem and hopelessness on resilience.

International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience

“…We also found that self-esteem was positively associated with resilience and negatively associated with stress. These study findings are consistent with prior research on the relationship of self-esteem with resilience (Arslan, 2015;Karatas & Cakar, 2011), and self-esteem with stress (Bi et al, 2016;Mann et al, 2004).…”

“…Thus enhanced self-esteem increases levels of resilience (Karatas & Cakar, 2011). Also, Self-esteem has a close relationship with stress, and self-esteem is more likely to reduce stress levels (Bi et al, 2016).…”

“…Thus, considering the robust relation between self-esteem and resilience (Arslan, 2015;Fontaine et al, 2017;Karatas & Cakar, 2011;Martínez-Martí, & Ruch, 2017) and between self-esteem and stress (Bi et al, 2016;Mann et al, 2004) and the important role of mindfulness in self-esteem (Brown & Ryan, 2003;Pepping et al, 2013), it is hypothesized that self-esteem mediates the relation of mindfulness to resilience and stress. Thus, mindfulness would predict increased levels of self-esteem, which would, in turn, predict enhanced resilience and reduced stress levels.…”

Perceived Social Support, Depression and Life Satisfaction as the Predictor of the Resilience of Secondary School Students: The Case of Burdur

“…In addition, students' levels of resilience were found to differ significantly based on the school that the child currently attends, the child's age, number of siblings, family's monthly income, mother's level of education, parents' professions, where the child's father grew up, level of protective attitude adopted by the parents, and the attitude adopted by the parents while bringing up the child. Karatas and Savi-Cakar (2011) found that self-esteem and hopelessness are significant predictors of resilience in adolescents. Savi-Cakar and found that the social support perceived by adolescents predicts their level of resilience significantly.…”

Relaciones de la resiliencia con el autoconcepto y el Apoyo Social Percibido en una muestra de adolescentes

“…Existen igualmente trabajos realizados con muestras de adolescentes y jóvenes (Benetti y Kambouropoulos, 2006;Cardozo y Alderete, 2009;Dumont y Provost, 1999;Karatas y Savi Cakar, 2011) o con menores infractores (Kidd y Shahar, 2008), que sugieren la existencia de conexión directa entre ambas variables. Puede presuponerse, por tanto, que entre los aspectos individuales que distinguen a la persona que afronta eficazmente la adversidad, la autopercepción positiva ocupa un lugar preferente.…”