| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治研究所 === 102 === This study aimed to explore the differences among university students with distinct personality traits in their resilience & impact, if any, of their prior experience as bullying victims on their life adaptation ability. The research tool was a modified scale that consisted of four sub-scales on “Personal profile,” “Bullying response", “Resilience”, & “Personality traits”. A total of 923 valid copies of the questionnaire were recovered.
By means of exploratory & confirmatory factor analyses, the construct validity of each factor collected for each sub-scale of the research tool was confirmed. The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was subsequently performed; the results showed that, with the overall sample size (n=923), men obviously appeared to be more resilient than women in terms of their confidence in resisting against stress; personality traits such as extraversion, friendliness, openness, & rigidity, all had a positive influence on their resilience. The personality trait of anxiety, on the other hand, impacted negatively on resilience. In addition, students that fell victim to bullying in the past (n=325) showed a positive correlation between their resilience & positive factors in response to bullying events such as ability development & self awareness & a negative correlation between their resilience & negative factors in response to bullying events such as passive attitude & self defense. In terms of the influence of personality traits on the response to bullying events, higher openness rendered higher cognitive scores in ability development & self awareness & lower cognitive scores in negative attitude & self defense. More extraversion resulted in higher cognitive scores in ability development & self awareness & more anxiety also brought about higher cognitive scores in negative attitude & self defense. Among prior bullying experiences, relational bullying had a significant influence on self defense.
Finally, the framework was verified. The suitability test showed that, with the overall sample size, the influence of personality traits on resilience was significant; the influence of personality traits among the portion of the sample with prior bullying experiences on resilience was significant; & the influence of resilience on the response to bullying events was also significant. All supported the cause & effect structural model. In other words, the assumption that personality traits would have an influence on resilience was verified in this study & so was the influence of personality traits & resilience on the response to bullying events.
Research findings were summarized in the end of the study & compared with Moons & Schaefer’s (1993) Transactional Theory of Stress (TTS)to come up with suggestions concerning practical counseling & management of bullying events combining the tertiary preventive ideas in the prevention against crimes.
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