This study aims at exploring the degrees of resilience of social welfare majors
and the main factors that effect their resilience. In order to achieve this goal, a
total of 104 college students majoring in social welfare were surveyed.
According to the result of this survey, the degree of resilience of social welfare
students is found to be below that of average adults. The survey also shows that
personal factors such as grade, self respect, self-efficacy affect the students'
resilience. The social factors such as family relations, social relations, social support
are also believed to be significant elements.
This study implicates that we should try to improve not only the whole recovery
resilience of the students but also its sub categories, for example, self-correcting
ability, interpersonal relation skills, positivity as well. It's because the subjects of
this study showed lower scores in both self-correcting ability and affirmative
attitude than the average adults in this survey. Self-correcting ability and positivity
are believed to be very important factors in social welfare practice. This study
proposes the need to enhance the recovery resilience by offering the students
various opportunity to volunteer, experience and practice, while operating mentoring
system.