Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways of coping and the academic resilience of nursing students according to MBTI personality types, and to examine the factors affecting the academic resilience. The data were collected by self-reported questionnaire from 188 nursing students in G city from September 15 to October 17, 2014. Korean version of MBTI, ways of coping checklist, and academic resilience scale were used. The result of this study showed that Extroversions preference (E) respondents use ways of coping more frequently than Introversions preference (I) (t=-3.516, p=.001) and the Academic resilience was significantly higher in the Extroversions preference (E) than in the Introversions preference (I) (t=-2.902, p=.004) while the Judging types (J) have higher academic resilience than the Perceiving types (P) (t=-3.113, p=.002). The factors that most influenced academic resilience for the nursing students were satisfaction in major, academic records, judging type preference, and ways of coping, which explained about 45.2% of the total variances.
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