Is There More to Resourcefulness Than Personal and Social Skills?

Abstract

This study examined relationships among personal and social resourcefulness and spiritual practices and their associations with perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and self-assessed health in 138 women caregivers of elders with dementia. Caregivers who rated high on personal and social resourcefulness and spiritual practices (by median splits) had the lowest perceived stress, fewest depressive symptoms, and best self-assessed health, followed in sequence by women rating high on two of the three, high on one of the three, and low on all three. Hierarchical regression analyses that introduced spiritual practices after resourcefulness showed significant increases in the R-square change by 3% and 5% for perceived stress and depressive symptoms, respectively, but no significant change for self-assessed health. Strong associations among personal and social resourcefulness and spiritual practices, and similar relationships with two health outcomes, suggest that spiritual practices may be a third dimension of resourcefulness.

Development and Testing of a Spiritual Resourcefulness Scale: Holistic Expansion in Operationalizing the Resourcefulness Construct

“…To be eligible, the caregivers had to be able to read English, engaged in caregiving at the time of the study for at least 6 months. This time interval for the length of caregiving is consistent with other caregiver research (Basu et al, 2015; Schultz et al, 2003), including caregiver research using the original RS © (e.g., Zauszniewski et al, 2019), and it captures long-term caregiving rather than acute, shorter-term caregiving, which is typical with caregiving for less than 6 months (AARP, 2020). Parent caregivers of children and formal (i.e., paid) caregivers were excluded from the study.…”

“…Beyond the revision of Resourcefulness and Quality of Life Theory, © there is also empirical evidence of a third spiritual dimension of resourcefulness. Zauszniewski et al (2019) investigated the relationships among resourcefulness, spiritual practices, and health outcomes to find personal and social resourcefulness and spiritual practices were not redundant and are may be part of the larger construct (i.e., resourcefulness). Furthermore, highly resourceful and spiritual individuals reported greater health outcomes suggesting optimal health is attained through the practice of resourcefulness and spirituality (Zauszniewski et al, 2019).…”

Effect of an online resourcefulness training in improving psychological well-being of front-line medical staff: a quasi-experimental study

“…Some studies have indicated that personal resourcefulness is negatively correlated with the depression index. [24,47] Ngai et al [29,48] guided psychological intervention with the concept of learned resourcefulness, which effectively improved the role competence and perinatal depressive symptoms of Chinese mothers. Yaqin Liu et al [49] conducted staged group psychological interventions on breast cancer patients and found that resourceful training can effectively improve the negative emotions of women with breast cancer.…”

Effects of resourcefulness on internet game addiction among college students: The mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of gender

“…Although there are no previous theories that directly discuss resourcefulness and internet game addiction, Zauszniewski's Theory of Resourcefulness and Quality of Life © may provide support. This theory suggests that resourcefulness has a direct impact on a person's quality of life and that internet game addiction can be considered an indicator of quality of life ( 8 – 10 ). Although this is the first study of personal and social resourcefulness and internet game addiction, there have been empirical studies that have examined the relationship between closely related construct and addictive behavior.…”