The article analyzes the relationship of the resilience with unfavorable life events and protection factors. The sample of that study belonged to 997 school adolescents of the public schools of São Gonçalo/RJ. As measure of resilience was used the Resilience Scale developed by Wagnild & Young (1993). To measure Life Events were used scale of physical violence (Straus, 1979) and psychological violence (Pitzer & Drummond, 1997), violence items in the school and in the place, violence among siblings and among parents, sexual violence and others. As protection factors were used the Scale of Social Support of Shebourne e Stewart (Chor, Grip, Lopes & Farstein, 2001), the Scale of Self-Esteem of Rosemberg (1989), family supervision, relationship with friends and teachers. It was observed that the negative life events didn't present relationship with the resilience. On the other hand, the appraised protection factors were shown all correlated with the resilience.
life events; protection factors; resilience
