Özet:

People are different in the ways, attitudes, and ways they prefer in the fight against negative conditions in stress and crisis periods. Psychological resistance is defined as the personality characteristic that represents the performance, health and mood of the individual in stressful situations. In this study, in the explanation of psycho-resistance, stress could reduce the negative effects of stress, and it was attempted to identify which personality characteristics play an effective role in organizations where employees such as banks work under intense stress. The data used in the research was collected with the help of the survey method. The main audience of the study is 67 bank employees operating in Manisa's Kula district. There was no sample in this study and it was attempted to reach the entire main audience. As measurement tools, "Five Factor Personality Scale" and "Psychological Resistance Survey" were used. The data received was analyzed using the SPSS 21 statistical package program. Correlation and a series of regression analyses have been applied to test the research hypotheses. According to the results of the analysis, there is a meaningful relationship between psychological resistance and personality dimensions. There is a strong relationship between external and developmental transparency and psychological resilience.  There is a middle-level relationship between consistency, responsibility and emotional balance and psychological endurance. After all, it turned out that in the explanation of psychological resistance, the personality has an important variable.

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