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Published on: December 15, 2023
Personal resilience and coping with implications for work. Part I: A review
1Army Research Laboratory, Human Research & Engineering Directorate, Army Medical Department Field Element, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Resilience is the ability to recover from adversity. While distinct from coping strategies, positive coping may enhance resilience, though further research is needed to clarify this relationship.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Occupational Health
Background:
- Growing interest in resilience across military and civilian sectors.
- Focus on adaptation to battle (military) and disaster recovery (civilian).
- Unclear relationship between coping skills and resilience.
Purpose of the Study:
- Examine personal resilience and individual coping strategies.
- Clarify definitions and relationships between coping and resilience.
- Describe their potential contributions in a work setting.
Main Methods:
- Conducted a literature review.
- Utilized search terms: resilience, resiliency, personal resilience, coping, resilient coping.
Main Results:
- Coping involves purposeful actions to manage life situations, with techniques being functional or dysfunctional.
- Resilience is defined as positive, functional self- and life-management, enabling recovery from adversity.
- Coping and resilience are related but distinct concepts.
Conclusions:
- Positive coping techniques may contribute to enhanced resilience.
- Further research is required to determine which coping techniques improve resilience and under what circumstances.
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