%0 Journal Article %T Psychological resilience in nursing students %A £¿a£¿la Yi£¿itba£¿ %J - %D 2018 %X Objective: Aim of this study is to examine the psychological resilience of the nursing students in terms of various socio-demographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: The universe of the descriptive study was composed of all the students of the nursing department of a state university located in the Eastern Black Sea Region (337 persons) and no sample selection was chosen (n = 276, response rate: 81.89%). The questionnaire consists of 33 questions and contains the " Resilience Scale for Adults ". This sclar (created by Friborg et al) translated into Turkish and analysed in the terms of "validity and vredibility" by Bas£¿m and £¿etin. The data collected face to face. The data of the study were collected in 2014 academic year. The descriptive variables are given in number and percentage. Non-parametric tests (Mann Whitneyui and Kruskall Wallis) were performed because of the characteristic of variables.p <0.05 was accepted as statistical significance level. Results: The average age of the students was 20.70¡À1.70 (min: 17 max: 27), 34.4% were male and 65.6% were female. 68.5% of the participants said that they chose the section with delight and willingly. Now, 77.9% of those who love the department. In terms of psychological resilience; it was found that women in the third grade of the ones who spend most of their lives in the village had higher average scores (p <0.05). They also found that they had higher average scores (p <0.05) in their perceptions of non-acceptance and non-interrogation. The average score point of the students in the study was found to be average. Conclusion: This study, variable factors like age, level of aducation of parents, occupation of parents and their smoking habits were found insignificant (p>0.05) in terms of calculating the point average. The study revealed that the factors of gender, family type, area of residence, grade and selecting nursing education willingly/unwillingly play important role in psychological strength %K Hem£¿ire %K £¿£¿renci %U http://dergipark.org.tr/sagakaderg/issue/42849/518176