Developing the fundamental elements of psychological resilience as an input to enhance the ability to cope with stressful life events for female college student

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Objectives of the study: The study aims to find out the relationship between the fundamental elements of psychological resilience and ways of coping with the stressful life events as well as revealing the effective role of the training program on psychological resilience and its impact on improving the ability to cope with stressful life events.
The Research sample: it includes the Pilot group consists of (50), The descriptive group consists of ( 260) female students ,and Two groups of the experimental study consist of: Experimental group: it consists of (30) female students, Control group: it consists of (30) female students, all of them female students from sophomores in the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Women, Ain –shams University
Tools of the Research: To prove the hypotheses of this study the researcher used these tools: Scale of psychological resilience for female college student (prepared by the researcher), Scale of ways of coping with stressful life events for female college student (prepared by the researcher),The social level( economic- social ) (prepared by Magde Maher Calep,1996) and A training program for the development of psychological resilience for female college students to enhance the ability to cope with stressful life events (prepared by the researcher).
   The findings of the Research show the following:
There is significant positive correlation between the fundamental elements of psychological resilience and ways of coping with stressful life events for female college students.
The effectiveness of the training program used in enhancing the psychological resilience as an input to increase the ability to cope with stressful life events for the experimental group.

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