Resilience Patterns

Abstract

Resilience, or the capacity to be able to develop oneself successfully despite adverse circumstances, has become a concept of interest in recent years. There is a clear relationship between resilience, psychological well-being, and coping strategies. This study looked at 890 subjects with a mean age of 46.77 (SD = 20.86) years, ranging from 18 and 95 years old. The participants were 40.6% men and 59.4% women. Using this sample, three clusters were developed by MATLAB R2010a and the Self-Organizing Maps toolbox. Two of these had high resilience, and the other one had low resilience; the psychological well-being variables and coping strategies were taken into account. Thereafter, multivariate analysis of variance showed a group effect for the resilience, psychological well-being, and coping strategies variables. Establishing resilient profiles based on variables such as psychological well-being and coping strategies reveals the best features for coping with stressful situations; this could help to promote nonpharmacological therapies for increasing resilience.

Optimism as a mediator between resilience and affective states in older adults / El optimismo como mediador entre la resiliencia y estados afectivos en adultos mayores

“…Las personas mayores optimistas tienden a adaptarse a las nuevas circunstancias reemplazando las actividades perdidas por aquellas que pueden ejecutar todavía, preservando así el afecto positivo (Dumitrache et al, 2015). También tienen buenas estrategias de afrontamiento ante cambios de tipo negativo (Luna, Ramos, & Rivera, 2016; Mayordomo-Rodríguez, García-Massó, Sales-Galán, Meléndez-Moral, & Serra-Año, 2015) y poseen abundantes recursos sociales.…”

“…Con el paso de los años la resiliencia puede disminuir (Leppert & StrauB, 2011), aunque los estudios aún no son concluyentes Mayordomo-Rodríguez et al, 2015. Si efectivamente aparece una pérdida de resiliencia es muy importante determinarla ya que ésta se relaciona con síntomas de ansiedad y depresión (Petrowski, Brähler, & Zenger, 2014).…”

“…Optimistic elderly people tend to adapt to new circumstances by substituting activities that they can no longer carry out with ones they can, thus maintaining a positive affect (Dumitrache et al, 2015). They also have good coping strategies when facing negative changes (Luna, Ramos, & Rivera, 2016; Mayordomo-Rodríguez, García-Massó, Sales-Galán, Meléndez-Moral, & Serra-Año, 2015) and have abundant social resources.…”

“…Some authors believe that resilience may decrease with time (Leppert & StrauB, 2011), although studies are still inconclusive (Mayordomo-Rodríguez et al, 2015). It is important to detect any loss of resilience, since this has been associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression (Petrowski, Brähler, & Zenger, 2014).…”