Academic Performance, Quality of Life and Resilience in University Students of Social Sciences Degrees

The aim of this study is to identify whether there is a combination of dimensions constituting resilience based on their intensity within resilient profiles of a student sample. It also aims to analyze whether the obtained profiles influence students' academic performance and quality of life. Finally, differences in resilient profiles based on sociodemographic and academic variables were studied. The Resilience Scale (1993) and the Spanish version of the WHOQOL (2009) were administered to 516 students with different social science majors from two universities in Alicante, aged between 20 and 45 years (M = 22.25; SD = 4.33). Cluster analysis identified three resilient profiles: a first profile with high resilience, a profile with low resilience, and a third profile with low scores in personal competence, high personal and life acceptance, and low self-discipline. Additionally, statistically significant differences were found between profiles regarding students' academic performance and quality of life, with students exhibiting high resilience showing higher academic success and better quality of life. This highlights the need to work with resilience and design and develop courses with this potential to promote students' academic success and quality of life.