The Impact of a Military Air Disaster on The Health of Assistance Workers

Resilience and mental health

“…A number of scales have been developed (Ahern, Kiehl, Sole, & Byers, 2006;Wagnild & Young, 1993;Bartone, Ursano, Wright, & Ingraham, 1989) or specific parameters extracted from other scales (Huppert & Whittington, 2003) to measure resilience or its main components: for example, hardiness (Kobasa, 1979;Hull, Van Treuren, & Virnelli, 1987), perceived stress (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983), optimism and life attitude (Bowen, Morasca, & Meischke, 2003). However, application of these measures has generally been restricted to specific populations (Carlson, 2001;Mosack, 2002), and generalisability cannot be assumed since the scales incorporate different constructs according to individual authors' concepts of resilience and underlying mechanisms.…”

How Should We Measure Psychological Resilience in Sport Performers?

“…Whereas recovery and coping are often discussed in relation to resilience, and sometimes used interchangeably with the term, there is growing evidence to suggest that they should be conceived as conceptually distinct from resilience (see, for a review, Fletcher & Sarkar, in press). To provide further illustrations, the Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS; Bartone, Ursano, Wright, & Ingraham, 1989) presents a measure of hardiness and the EgoResiliency Scale (ER89, Block & Kremen, 1996) was developed to assess ego-resiliency.…”

Stress and Burnout in Canadian Midwives

“…The Symptoms Checklist (Bartone, Ursano, Wright, & Ingraham, 1989) was retained to assess manifestations of psychological, behavioural, and physical strain.…”