The role of relational resilience in classifying childhood abuse experiences among university students

Abstract

When the literature is analyzed, it is seen that childhood experiences are an important determinant for reactions in university ages. It is thought that this study will contribute to the related literature by drawing attention to the fact that childhood abuse experiences are also a determinant of university students’ relational resilience. This study examines the accuracy with which relational resilience categorizes university students who have been abused in childhood and university students who have not been abused. The research comprises 225 university students, 75 women and 150 men, aged 19-48 years, selected by convenience sampling. In the study, the Relational Resilience Scale and short information form were used to determine the relational resilience levels of the participants. Logistic regression analysis was performed on the data obtained from the data collection tools. The results of the analyses showed that relational resilience was able to classify university students with and without abuse experience with a correct prediction rate of 60.4%. It was observed that a 1-unit increase in the relational resilience variable caused a 3.30% increase in the abuse rate. This finding shows that relational resilience significantly contributes to categorizing individuals who have been victimized and those who have not been victimized. It was seen that relational resilience made a significant contribution to the classification of individuals who had been abused and those who had not been abused.