Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TAM Akademi Dergisi, cilt.3, sa.2, ss.316-337, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
Gaining strength of care leavers in terms of psychosocial health and getting into the life out of an institution may be possible through social support systems’ get functionality. This research aims to test the resilience degrees of care leavers. We used the quantitative method in this research. The study sample includes voluntary care leavers registered to non-governmental organizations and the other care leavers that reached by using snowball sampling. To reveal the resilience degrees of care leavers, we used The Resilience Scale for Adults as a data collecting tool in this study. According to the research, we reached 107 care leavers. We used SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) 23 to analyze the data collected from the participants. We found that participants who received graduate education, gained higher income, and had a spouse had higher resilience levels than those who received less education, gained less income, and didn't have a spouse. Furthermore, participants who left institutional care at ages 7–17 had significantly higher score averages from the Social Resources sub-dimension, which is related to relationships with friends, the status of receiving social support, and the status of having a contact in case of need, than those who left institutional care at ages 18–22. It can be inferred that individuals who left institutional care at the ages of 7–17 received more social support.