Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of resilience with God perception, religious orientation forms and religiousness in the sample of university students. The sample of the study consisted of 596 university students studying in various classes of faculties of education and theology. As data collection instruments, socio-demographic form, Risk Factor list including negative life events, God Perception Scale (Güler, 2007b), Revised Muslim Religious Orientation Scale (Ercan, 2009) and Resiliency Scale (Gürgan, 2006b) was administrated to the students. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA and multiple correlation were run over the data collected. The most frequently reported risk factors were to have very low income, to experience academic failure, to be decieved, be abandoned and be unintentionally seperated, to lose a person given value, and to be obliged to work for money during studying. ANOVA pointed out that the resilience level of male students were higher than female students’ level. Multiple corelation analysis indicated that resilience was positively correlated with love oriented God perception, intrinsic religious orientation and subjective religiousness

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