An integrative process model of resilience in an academic context: Resilience resources, coping strategies, and positive adaptation

Autor: Sabina Kleitman, Dayna J. Fullerton, Lisa M. Zhang
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Coping (psychology)
Economics
Emotions
Intelligence
Social Sciences
050109 social psychology
Developmental psychology
Academic Performance
Adaptation
Psychological
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Public and Occupational Health
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Physics
05 social sciences
050301 education
Resilience
Psychological
Condensed Matter Physics
Buoyancy
Mental Health
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Female
Psychological resilience
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Research Article
Personality
Universities
Psychological Adjustment
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Context (language use)
Structural equation modeling
Young Adult
Social support
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Students
Stressor
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Models
Theoretical
Mental health
Cognitive Science
0503 education
Finance
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 2, p e0246000 (2021)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246000
Popis: Tertiary study presents students with a number of pressures and challenges. Thus, mental resilience plays a key role in students’ well-being and performance. Resilience research has moved away from conceptualising resilience as a trait and towards studying resilience as a process by which resources protect against the negative impact of stressors to produce positive outcomes. However, there is a lack of research in the academic domain examining the mechanisms underlying this process. This study addressed this gap by examining a range of personal resilience resources and their interaction with coping responses to produce positive adaptation outcomes, in a sample of 306 undergraduate students. Firstly, individual differences in resilience were examined, whereby factor analysis resulted in self-report measures of resilience-related attributes converging onto an overarching factor. The extracted factor was then validated against markers of positive adaptation (mental well-being, university adjustment, and somatic health symptoms), and the mediating roles of coping strategies were investigated through structural equation modelling. The resilience resources factor directly predicted mental well-being and adjustment; and indirectly predicted adjustment and somatic health symptoms through support-seeking and avoidant coping, respectively. These findings have theoretical implications for how resilience is conceptualised, as well as practical implications for improving student well-being and adjustment through promoting social support and reducing disengaged and avoidant coping strategies.
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