Objective  To explore the characteristics of resilience in college students and its influencing factors.   Methods  Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA)

Life Events Scale

depression

anxiety and somatization of Self-report Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90)

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Social Support Scale were applied in this survey to 2 085 college students (340 males and 1 727 females

at age of 20.39±1.43) collected by cluster sampling.   Results  The high resilience has been found in college students (2.76±0.41). The boys were significantly higher in perception of self (t=2.466

P=0.014) and planned future (t=3.977

P=0.000) than girls. There was significantly difference in poverty and not poverty students in social support factor (t=-2.073

P=0.038). Resilience had the obvious positive correlation with the social support(r=0.394)

extraversion(r=0.459)

and negative correlation with the neuroticism(r=-0.270)

life events(r=-0.170) and SCL-90(r=-0.153). Extraversion

social support

neuroticism and life events had the good predictive ability (29.9%) to resilience.   Conclusion  The high resilience has been found in college students

and it is related to social support

personality and life events

and effectively predicts resilience.