There has been a rise in the research about resilience day by day and it has more  importance in the fields such as phychological guidance, psychology and health.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to explain the characteristics and the direction of resilience studies.

Method: In this study, documental survey technique is used. Working groups  are English and Turkish studies about resilience that are published and accessible, and National Thesis Center . It has been accessed about 128 studies about resilience published  between the years 2005-2015.  These studies are analyzed according to the type of the study, method, publishing date, sample group and the other variables. Descriptive analysis are used while analysing the data.

Findings: As a result of the research, it was found out that  53 of the studies about resilience were masters thesis,  18 of them were doctorate thesis and 57 of them were articles. 31 of these studies were published in 2015, 25 in 2014, 20 in 2013, 11 in 2012, 11 in 2011, 9 in 2010, 5 in 2009, 5 in 2008, 3 in 2007, 6 in 2006, and 2 in 2005. In these studies, sample groups were consists of  people who are  traumatised or experienced a challenging life (f:33 27%), university students (f:39,31%), workers in hard jobs (f:13,10%), adolesance (f:15,12%), teachers (f:8,6%), and the other groups (f:14,11%). 2 of the studies analysed were carried out in the experimental method, and 110 of them were carried out in the descriptive method. Besides, it is found out that 11 of the studies are developing and adapting scale, 5 of them are review studies. Variables analysed within the research sorces were categorised and frequencies and percentages were calculated according to this categorization.  In this scope, the frequecy of the variables about characteristics was  F:41,31%, the frequency of relational variables was: F(28,21%), positive psychological variables F:29,21%, negative  psychological variables F:(13,9%), variables about job satisfaction F: (21,15%). In most of the studies demographic variables such as  age, gender..etc were taken into consideration.

Result: As a result of the literature review, we see that  studies about resilience are mostly carried with descriptive analysis and variables about personality, interpersonal interactions, positive/negative psychological variables and job satisfactions are studied.