Abstract:
The purpose of this descriptive research was to study Resilience Quotient (RQ) and related factors of newly rotating graduated nurses of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The subjects were 193 newly rotating graduated nurses of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in 2014. Data were obtained by using questionnaire; which consisted of Demographic data and general information, the Thai Resilience Quotient screening test , the Personal Resource Questionnaire PRQ : Part II , and the Maudsley Personal Inventory . Statistical analyses were descriptive statistic, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression. About 97 percent of the subjects were female, their mean age was 22.6 years. Most of them (75.2%) had normal RQ, 15% had high RQ and 9.8% had low RQ. Related factors to RQ included economic status ,family burden, confidence to practice nursing, stressful life events, social support and personality type. It was found that social support, personality type and family burden could predict RQ with a predictive value of 44.7%