Schizophrenia is serious mental disorders characterized by sever cognitive impairments that affect patient's ability to cope with stress and therefore, lower resilience and life satisfaction. Aim of the study: Aim of this study was to investigate the relation between resilience and life satisfaction among schizophrenic patients. Research design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital in Benha city, Qalubia Governorate. Subject: A purposive sample consisted of 100 schizophrenic patients from the previous study setting. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection. Tool 1- structured interview questionnaire was used to collect data about socio demographic and clinical characteristics of the studied sample. Tool (2):- The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) to assess reference values for resilience in clinical samples. Tool (3):- Satisfaction with Life Scale was used to measure life satisfaction among the studied sample. Results: The result of the present study revealed that, more three quarters of the studied patients had low level of total resilience and the majority of the studied patients had low level of total life satisfaction and there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total resilience and total life satisfaction. Conclusion: In ability of schizophrenic patients to deal with stressors are prone to have low resilience that in turn lowers patient's life satisfaction. Recommendations: Training patients on developing of stress coping skills which risk factor for resilience to reduce burdens of patients and contribute to improvement in satisfaction with life |
