Resilience and Quality of Life in Adults with Diabetes

The aim of this research is to verify if there is a significant relationship between Resilience and Quality of Life in Adults with Diabetes (type 1 and 2). Resilience is understood as a product or result of an unhealthy environment that is it is used to have a healthy life in an unhealthy environment (Rutter 1999) this environment works as a risk factor one of the necessary components to develop resilience (Fergus and Zimmerman 2005). At the same time it was linked to the Quality of Life proposed by Faden and German (1998) as a multidimensional variable in which various categories are grouped referring to physical mental social and economic well-being from the perspective of the subjects themselves. To carry out this research the Resilience Scale (Wagnild and Young 1993) and the Diabetes 39 Instrument (Boyer 1997) were used. The sample was made up of people of both genders of which 56 were women 39 were men and 5 belonged to the other group.