ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the relationship between resilience and personality among the physically disabled people.Methods A total of 668 disabled persons were tested by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Short Scale (EPQ-RSC), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES).Results The score of resilience of disabled people(53.42± 18.18) was than lower Chinese community people (65.4 ± 13.9, t =-16.83, P＜ 0.05).The scores of the three sub-factors were tenacity (27.19 ± 10.23), strength (18.11 ±6.42) ,optimism(8.09±3.00).The disabled persons' resilience was positively correlated with self-esteem(r=0.52,P＜0.01) ,extraversion(r=0.47, P＜0.01) ,and negatively correlated with psychoticism(r=-0.34, P＜0.01), neuroticism(r=-0.32, P＜0.01).Self-esteem and extraversion could make positive predictions,while psychoticism and neuroticism could make negative predictions to the resilience of disabled persons.Conclusion The disabled Persons' personality is closely related with resilience and has significant predictions to resilience.