Resilience research studies from around the world

The Relationship Between Resilience and Personality Traits in Doctors: Implications for Enhancing Well-Being

Authors: Eley DS, Cloninger CR, Walters L, Laurence C, Synnott R, Wilkinson D. The School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia The health and well-being of medical doctors is vital to their longevity and safe practice. The concept of resilience is recognized as an important factor in medical training...

Factors Related to Academic Success among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Correlational Research Study

The purpose of this correlational study was to describe the relationships among emotional intelligence, psychological empowerment, resilience, spiritual well-being, and academic success in undergraduate and graduate nursing students in a private Catholic university. A total of 124 undergraduate and graduate nursing students completed the survey. The survey comprised the 14-item...

Cross-Ethnic Validity of The RS-14 Among Adolescents

Suzanne Pritzker and Anthony Minter from the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston assessed the psychometric properties of the RS-14 in a sample of 2,983 early and middle adolescents. Of this total, 39% were Hispanic, 40% White, 7.5% African-American, 4.8% Asian, and 8.9% reported other...

The Association of Resilience and Age in Individuals with Colorectal Cancer: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study

Research studies often report that older patients with cancer experience less emotional distress than younger patients with cancer. Resilience scores appear to increase as people age, but this had not been assessed in relation to emotional distress in older patients with cancer. The purpose of this study was to assess...

Measuring Resilience with the RS-14: A Tale of Two Samples

The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the RS-14 and to provide reliability and validity support for using the RS-14 to measure overall resilience. The study was conducted with two large samples: Individuals seeking mental health clinical services following the 2010 Gulf oil spill (N=1,032) University...

The Impact of Knowledge about Diabetes, Resilience and Depression on Glycemic Control: A Cross-sectional Study among Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between glycemic control and the factors of knowledge about diabetes, resilience, depression and anxiety among Brazilian adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes. This cross-sectional study included 85 adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes, aged between 11-22...

Resilience in Chronic Heart Failure

This study investigated the correlates of resilience in 186 chronic heart failure (CHF) patients suffering from symptom burden and/or clinical relevant depression. CHF patients also were compared to a representative sample of the German general population (372 persons). There was a significant and positive association of resilience with age and...

Resilience, Depressed Mood, and Menopausal Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women

Post-menopausal women (n=169) aged 48-68 years completed the Resilience Scale, the center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10), the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), and a questionnaire containing personal and partner sociodemographic data. The median age of respondents was 54. Among the women, 55.6% had increased body mass index, 13.0% used...

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Resilience

In this prospective longitudinal study, 67 patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and 34 orthopedic controls completed the Resilience Scale, Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition, and Pain subscale from Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory one month after injury and Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale one and six months after injury. Insomnia, pain,...

Intrinsic religiosity, resilience, quality of life, and suicide risk in depressed inpatients

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between intrinsic religiosity and resilience in depressed inpatients. A prospective sample of 143 depressed patients admitted to a hospital in South Brazil was assessed within 72 hours of admission and 48 hours following discharge. Assessments included religiosity, social support,...

Resilience, Self-reported Depression and Health

Resilience, self-reported depression, and healthy behaviors were measured in a sample of 8,903 adults 18 years and older with an average of 38 years. The mean RS-14 score was 78.1 and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was .94. Eleven percent of the respondents reported experiencing symptoms of depression frequently or all...

The relationship between resilience and empowering leader behaviour of nurse managers in the mining healthcare sector

Authors: Babalwa Tau, Emmerentia du Plessis, Daleen Koen, Suria Ellis The South African mining healthcare sector faces injuries, illnesses including HIV and AIDS and high staff turnover rates. In this group, nurse managers need to create an optimal environment by motivating, influencing and empowering nurses.