Resilience in adolescence: Gender differences two years after the earthquake of L’Aquila

Stratta, Paolo; Capanna, Cristina; Patriarca, Sara; Cataldo, Stefano de; Bonanni, Roberto; Riccardi, Ilaria; Rossi, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.09.016

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“…However, there was no significant difference in resilience of males and females in the total sample. Previous studies (Aronen and Kurkela, 1998;Campbell-Sills et al, 2006) have reported the lack of a significant difference in resilience of males and females, while others (Boardman et al, 2008;Stratta et al, 2013;Scoloveno, 2013;Ying et al, 2014) had reported that males were found to report more resilience than females. A number of explanations can be offered with regard to the finding in the current study.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Evidence of gendered psychological resources (e.g., agency, mastery and worth) in favour of males which may provide the requisite foundation to enable resilience characteristics (Shanahan and Hofer, 2005) have been supported by studies showing higher resilience in adolescent males compared to females (Campbell-Sills et al, 2009;von Soest et al, 2010;Waaktaar and Torgersen, 2012;Abukari and Laser, 2013;Stratta et al, 2013;Ying et al, 2014). Among older populations, males have also been found to report higher resilience (Boardman et al, 2008).…”

Section: Gender and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Resilience in Igbo Rural Community Adolescents and Young Adults

Chukwuorji

Ajaero

2014

Journal of Social Sciences

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While involved in organising an empowerment seminar for the Igbo rural youths, the authors investigated resilience among rural adolescents and young adults. Three hundred and twenty nine (329) adolescents (n = 162) and young adults (n = 167), comprising 159 males and 170 females, were participants. They completed the 14-item Resilience scale and provided some relevant demographic information. Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test for differences in resilience on account of age, gender and level of education. Young adults had significantly higher resilience scores than adolescents. No significant difference was found in resilience scores of males and females. Participants with higher education had significantly higher resilience scores than those with lower education. Of all the interaction effects tested, only age * gender * education had a significant interaction effect on resilience. Discussion of the findings were based on the literature, realities of life in contemporary Igbo society and the authors' observations.

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Section: Gender and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience in Igbo Rural Community Adolescents and Young Adults

Chukwuorji

Ajaero

2014

Journal of Social Sciences

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“…Gender differences in alexithymia have sometimes been reported (e.g., Levant, Hall, Williams, & Hasan, 2009;Mason, Tyson, Jones, & Potts, 2010), as have gender differences in resilience (e.g., Stratta et al, 2013). The present study did not include male undergraduates, hence the present findings cannot be F I G U R E 2 Standardised coefficients and significance of individual pathways within the serial mediation model depicting the predictive relationship of resilience and anxiety as mediated by alexithymia and university stress while controlling for problematic drinking generalised to young men at university.…”

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Resilience, alexithymia, and university stress in relation to anxiety and problematic alcohol use among female university students

Lyvers

Holloway

Needham

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Australian Journal of Psychology

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Objectives: University students in Australia report higher levels of stress than nonstudents of the same age, with females reporting higher stress than males. The ability to successfully adapt to, and cope with, stressful situations and events, often referred to as resilience, requires social and interpersonal resources as well as the ability to effectively self-regulate emotions. When such resources and abilities are deficient, responses to university stress are likely to be maladaptive. Deficient emotional self-regulation is characteristic of individuals with the subclinical personality trait alexithymia, who also tend to suffer from social and interpersonal difficulties; thus students with alexithymia may be especially susceptible to university stress and associated adverse outcomes of low resilience. The present study examined resilience in relation to alexithymia, university stress, and two common outcomes of the latter in female university students: anxiety and problematic drinking. Method: Validated self-report measures of the relevant constructs were completed online by 136 female university students from two Australian universities. All participants indicated they had English-language proficiency and no history of serious head injury or diagnosed psychological disorder. Results: Serial mediation models indicated that resilience showed the predicted protective relationship to both problematic drinking and anxiety through lower levels of alexithymia and university stress. Conclusions: Findings suggest that students who lack resilience are more likely to report stress at university, as well as associated adverse outcomes such as anxiety and problematic drinking, due to deficiencies in emotional self-regulation and inadequate use of social and interpersonal resources for successful coping. K E Y W O R D Sanxiety, personality, stress, substance abuse and addiction

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“…Regarding our model, if resilience is not engaged, within a 'protective' model (Hjemdal et al, 2007;Stratta et al, 2013), there is no possibility of positive coping to successfully manage the stress exposure. As a matter of fact, if coping itself could theoretically be aimed to avoid stress exposure, resilience could be beneficial 'if' encounters exposure.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%