The perceived strengths of resilience as a concept stem from its foundations in the sciences and humanities, and have recently gained currency amongst political actors and in policy spheres.
Using a cross-sectional design, all members of a convenience sample of 182 women with infertility completed self-report measures of PTG, resilience, perceived social support, positive coping and background information.
Even though organ donation is a stressful life event, candidates possessing high resilience perceived themselves as having a high level of quality of life at the time-point of donor evaluation.
Since there was no follow-up with drop-outs in this study to determine reasons for attrition, future research is required to identify barriers to learning and the extent of perceived need for resilience training, especially in nonprofessional hospital staff for whom drop-out rates were highest.
The Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program has shown efficacy for reducing anxiety and perceived stress and increasing resilience and quality of life.
Stewart-Knox B, E Duffy M, Bunting B, Parr H, Vas de Almeida MD, Gibney M. Associations between obesity (BMI and waist circumference) and socio-demographic factors, physical activity, dietary habits, life events, resilience, mood, perceived stress and hopelessness in healthy older Europeans.
There is need, therefore, to address these perceived challenges and strengthen resilience through effective policy reviews to secure rural livelihoods.
Marine systems have for some time been regarded as less impacted than freshwater or terrestrial counterparts because of fewer documented losses of species and a perceived "extra measure of resilience" because of larger geographic ranges [5] and greater phyletic diversity [7], [13].
The medical students who scored high on perceived stress had lower resilience, resulting in lower levels of life satisfaction, while those who scored low on perceived stress had higher resilience, contributing to higher levels of life satisfaction.
39 41 However, in our sample, availability of social support and isolation both had stronger relationships with resilience than perceived adequacy of support.
In this study we examined the effects of community oil exposure (direct, indirect) and income loss with respect to acute psychological distress, coping, resilience, and perceived risk after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
