Psychology, Department of

 

ORCID IDs

Kosuke Niitsu

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2017

Citation

Issues in Mental Health Nursing 38:11 (2017), pp. 896–906.

doi: 10.1080/01612840.2017 .1350225

Comments

Copyright © 2017 Taylor & Francis. Used by permission.

Abstract

Although clinicians and researchers are interested in the phenomenon of resilience, there is no agreed-upon definition of resilience. Scientific evidence suggests that resilience is influenced by intrapersonal (e.g., personality traits) and environmental (e.g., social support) variables. A concept analysis was conducted to better understand the meaning of resilience. In this analysis, the antecedent of resilience was a potentially traumatic event; the defining attributes were ego-resiliency, emotion regulation, social support, and heredity; and the consequences were none to mild psychopathological symptoms and positive adaptation. This analysis can help nurses better understand resilience and its relationships to both intrapersonal and environmental variables.

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