Resilience in Turkish Adolescents From Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds: The Role of Courage, Self‐Compassion, and Prosocial Behavior Tendencies

ABSTRACT This study examined the direct and indirect relationships among resilience, its individual‐level protective factors (i.e., courage and self‐compassion), and its positive outcomes (i.e., prosocial behavior tendencies) in a sample of adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds in Türkiye (Turkey). Quantitative data were collected through surveys from 1030 adolescents across seven Anatolian High Schools, which were selected using cluster sampling. A path analysis, which is a specific form of structural equation modeling, was used to test the proposed model and investigate the direct and indirect relationships. Results revealed positive associations between courage, self‐compassion, and resilience. Resilience was positively linked with all subscales of prosocial behavior tendencies. Moreover, courage demonstrated both direct associations with self‐compassion and indirect associations with prosocial behavior tendencies through self‐compassion and resilience. Unexpectedly, self‐compassion was negatively linked to all subscales of prosocial behavior tendencies. These findings demonstrated that the interplay among resilience, its predictors, and outcomes is complex and not always straightforward.