Query: psychological resilience

title: Psychological resilience during the COVID 19 lockdown
abstract: Some individuals are more psychologically resilient to adversity than others, an issue of great importance during the emerging mental health issues associated with the COVID 19 pandemic. To identify factors that may contribute to greater psychological resilience during the first weeks of the nation wide lockdown efforts, we asked 1,004 U.S. adults to complete assessments of resilience, mental health, and daily behaviors and relationships. Average resilience was lower than published norms, but was greater among those who tended to get outside more often, exercise more, perceive more social support from family, friends, and significant others, sleep better, and pray more often. Psychological resilience in the face of the pandemic is related to modifiable factors.

title: Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID 19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic
abstract: Psychological resilience is characterized as the ability to respond to extreme stress or trauma or adverse experience successfully. While the relation between public emergencies and psychological distress is well known, research on therelationship between psychological resilience and mental health is very limited during the outbreak of public health emergencies.  This research investigated the relationship between psychological resilience and mental health (depression, anxiety, somatization symptoms) among the general population in China.  Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms of 1,770 Chinese citizens were investigated during the epidemic peak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) (23rd February 2020 to 2nd March 2020) The analyses were done through the Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD RISC) the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ 9) the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD 7) scale, and the Patient Health Questionnaire 15 (PHQ 15) scale.  The prevalence of depression, anxiety, somatization symptoms was found to be 47.1% 31.9% 45.9% respectively, among all participants. From them, 18.2% showed moderate to severe symptoms of depression, 8.8% showed moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety, and 16.6% showed moderate to severe symptoms of somatization. Psychological resilience was negatively correlated with depression (standardized B 0.490, P<0.001) anxiety (standardized B 0.443, P<0.001) and somatization symptom scores (standardized B 0.358, P<0.001) while controlling for confounding factors. Analysis of the three factor resilience structure showed that strength and tenacity were correlated with depression (standardized B 0.256, P<0.001; standardized B 0.217, P<0.001) anxiety (standardized B 0.268, P<0.001; standardized B 0.147, P<0.001) and somatization symptoms (standardized B 0.236, P<0.001, standardized B 0.126, P<0.01)  Our results suggest that there is a high prevalence of psychological distresses among the general population at the peak of the COVID 19 epidemic in China, which is negatively correlated with resilience. Psychological resilience represents an essential target for psychological intervention in a public health emergency.

title: Psychological resilience, organizational resilience and life satisfaction in tourism firms: insights from the Canterbury earthquakes
abstract: From a socio ecological systems perspective, resilience is dynamic, multi dimensional and multi scale. This study provides evidence of the relationship between different types of resilience (psychological, employee and organizational resilience) affecting the recovery of tourism organizations after the Canterbury earthquakes in 2010/2011. A survey of tourism business owners and employees (managers) was undertaken five years after the February 2011 earthquakes. Results show significant and positive relationships between psychological and employee resilience. Further, employee resilience contributes to both life satisfaction of tourism business operators and organizational resilience. Life satisfaction of business owners and managers contributes to organizational resilience. Implications for the well being of tourism business owners and managers, and ways of strengthening both psychological and organizational resilience are suggested.

title: Battle Buddies: Rapid Deployment of a Psychological Resilience Intervention for Health Care Workers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
abstract: The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) and its rapid global spread have created unprecedented challenges to health care systems. Significant and sustained efforts have focused on mobilization of personal protective equipment, intensive care beds, and medical equipment, while substantially less attention has focused on preserving the psychological health of the medical workforce tasked with addressing the challenges of the pandemic. And yet, similar to battlefield conditions, health care workers are being confronted with ongoing uncertainty about resources, capacities, and risks; as well as exposure to suffering, death, and threats to their own safety. These conditions are engendering high levels of fear and anxiety in the short term, and place individuals at risk for persistent stress exposure syndromes, subclinical mental health symptoms, and professional burnout in the long term. Given the potentially wide ranging mental health impact of COVID 19, protecting health care workers from adverse psychological effects of the pandemic is critical. Therefore, we present an overview of the potential psychological stress responses to the COVID 19 crisis in medical providers and describe preemptive resilience promoting strategies at the organizational and personal level. We then describe a rapidly deployable Psychological Resilience Intervention founded on a peer support model (Battle Buddies) developed by the United States Army. This intervention the product of a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical Center also incorporates evidence informed "stress inoculation" methods developed for managing psychological stress exposure in providers deployed to disasters. Our multilevel, resource efficient, and scalable approach places 2 key tools directly in the hands of providers: (1) a peer support Battle Buddy; and (2) a designated mental health consultant who can facilitate training in stress inoculation methods, provide additional support, or coordinate referral for external professional consultation. In parallel, we have instituted a voluntary research data collection component that will enable us to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness while also identifying the most salient resilience factors for future iterations. It is our hope that these elements will provide guidance to other organizations seeking to protect the well being of their medical workforce during the pandemic. Given the remarkable adaptability of human beings, we believe that, by promoting resilience, our diverse health care workforce can emerge from this monumental challenge with new skills, closer relationships, and greater confidence in the power of community.

title: Psychological Resilience and Its Downstream Effects for Business Survival in Nascent Entrepreneurship
abstract: While scholars frequently argue that nascent entrepreneurs will be more successful if they are resilient, this assumption remains untested and the mechanisms for its potential benefits are unknown. To establish the utility of this psychological construct, we draw from Fredrickson's broaden and build theory (1998) to develop and test theory on the processes through which psychological resilience influences first time entrepreneurs' business survival. Results of a time lagged study of nascent entrepreneurs followed over a 2 year period support this theory, highlighting the cognitive and behavioral ways in which psychological resilience helps nascent entrepreneurs become less vulnerable to their stressful circumstances.

title: Psychological Resilience of Healthcare Professionals During COVID 19 Pandemic
abstract: The COVID 19 pandemic as a public health issue has spread to the rest of the world. Although the wellbeing and emotional resilience of healthcare professionals are key components of continuing healthcare services during the COVID 19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have been observed in this period to experience serious psychological problems and to be at risk in terms of mental health. Therefore, this study aims to probe psychological resilience of healthcare workers. The findings of this study showed that in order to raise psychological resilience of healthcare professionals working during the COVID 19 pandemic their quality of sleep, positive emotions and life satisfaction need to be enhanced. Psychological resilience levels of healthcare workers in their later years were found to be higher. Doctors constitute the group with the lowest levels of psychological resilience among healthcare workers. The current study is considered to have contributed to the literature in this regard. Primary needs such as sleep which are determinants of quality of life, life satisfaction and psychological resilience should be met.

title: Religiosity, Psychological Resilience, and Mental Health Among Breast Cancer Patients in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
abstract: This study aimed to investigate the correlations of religiosity and psychological resilience with mental health among cancer patients and to examine whether religiosity and psychological resilience can predict mental health.  The sample consisted of 329 patients. Researchers applied Islamic Religiosity Scale, Wagnild and Young Resilience Scale, and the scale of Hospital Anxiety and Depression.  The results showed that there are positive, statistically significant correlations between religiosity and psychological resilience, while there were negative, statistically significant correlations of religiosity and psychological resilience with mental health. And there are correlations between the alternative therapeutic interventions currently used to religiosity and psychological resilience, while there were no statistically significant correlations between alternative therapeutic interventions that the patient will use in the future to religiosity and psychological resilience. The results also revealed the possibility of predicting mental health through religiosity and psychological resilience.  These results emphasized the importance of increased religiosity and psychological resilience among cancer patients.

title: Resilience strategies to manage psychological distress amongst healthcare workers during the COVID 19 pandemic: a narrative review
abstract: The COVID 19 pandemic marks an extraordinary global public health crisis unseen in the last century, with its rapid spread worldwide and associated mortality burden. The longevity of the crisis and disruption to normality is unknown. With COVID 19 set to be a chronic health crisis, clinicians will be required to maintain a state of high alert for an extended period. The support received before and during an incident is likely to influence whether clinicians experience psychological growth or injury. An abundance of information is emerging on disease epidemiology, pathogenesis and infection control prevention. However, literature on interventions for supporting the psychological well being of healthcare workers during disease outbreaks is limited. This article summarises the available management strategies to increase resilience in healthcare workers during the COVID 19 pandemic and beyond. It focuses on self care and organisational justice. It highlights various individual as well as organisational strategies. With the success of slowing disease spread in many countries to date, and reduced work load due to limitations on elective surgery in many institutions, there is more time and opportunity to be pro active in implementing measures to mitigate or minimise potential adverse psychological effects and improve, restore and preserve the well being of the workforce now and for years to come. The purpose of this review is to review available literature on strategies for minimising the psychological impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on clinicians and to identify pro active holistic approaches which may be beneficial for healthcare workers both for the current crisis and into the future.

title: Psychological resilience to suicidal experiences
abstract: Psychological resilience, in general, and in particular when applied to suicidal experiences, lacks conceptual clarity. Here, we argue that psychological models of resilience to suicidal triggers and suicidal experiences must be grounded in the lived experiences of experts by experience. There are, a least, five approaches to understanding resilience to suicidal experiences which should be systematically investigated. The dominant methodological approach is lacking in that it is simply uni dimensional, i.e. represented by two poles of resilient and non resilient; at risk and not at risk. More sophisticated models of psychological resilience to suicidal experience should be championed which span cultural, societal, and individual levels of understanding. Such approaches should be investigated using convergent qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies. In addition, more complex, diary study methods should be used creatively in this area. It is also important that approaches to understanding resilience to suicidality should be sensitive to issues experienced by mental health professionals.

title: Individual Differences in Psychological Resilience
abstract: Psychological resilience is invisible and a very complicated concept. Various resilience factors have been identified in previous studies. An individual's resiliency was quantified by questionnaire scale, and many studies reported correlation with personality and changes with age and life events. Furthermore, many programs were developed aimed to expand resiliency through intervention and human interaction. On the other hand, we must be careful not to overlook the diversity of resilience. However, the impact of these factors in inducing resiliency varies from person to person. Even if the same stressful situation occurs, the kind of recovery that is to be aimed at varies from person to person; although the resilience may be externally invisible, it shows the possibility that the person has adopted a resilience process. In addition, the labeling of a level as adversity or adaptation depends on culture, environment, and context. While psychological resilience can be considered as a personal ability and personality, it is also necessary to consider it as a desirable characteristic in the society in which an individual lives.