Resilience
10.11817/j.issn.1672-7347.2021.190301
- Author:
Anni WANG
1
;
Wen ZHANG
2
;
Yufang GUO
3
;
Wendy CROSS
4
;
Virginia PLUMMER
4
;
Louisa LAM
4
;
Jingping ZHANG
5
Author Information
1. Department of Basic Nursing, School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200023. wanganni1990@163.com.
2. School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
3. Department of Clinical Nursing, School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012.
4. School of Nursing and Healthcare Professions, Federation University Australia, Berwick, Victoria 3806, Australia.
5. Department of Clinical Nursing, Nursing Psychology Research Center, Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha 410013, China. jpzhang1965@163.com.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
depression;
only-child loss person;
resilience;
stress;
structural equation model
- MeSH:
Adaptation, Psychological;
Child;
China/epidemiology*;
Extraversion, Psychological;
Humans;
Only Child;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:
Journal of Central South University(Medical Sciences)
2021;46(1):75-83
- CountryChina
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:There are almost one million families who lost their only child in China, and 65.6% of them had severe and long lasting depression and needed timely psycho-intervention. This study aims to explore the relationship among resilience and its influential factors, and to compare their effect on depression.
METHODS:A total of 212 only-child loss person in 9 administrative regions in Changsha were assessed by using Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, Simplified Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Social Support Rating Scale, and General Self-efficacy Scale. A hypothetical model was tested based on Kumpfer resilience framework and stress-coping theory.
RESULTS:The influential factors of resilience were: positive coping (the total effect value was 0.480), support utilization (the total effect value was 0.359), neuroticism (the total effect value was -0.326), negative coping (the total effect value was 0.279), extraversion (the total effect value was 0.219), and objective support (the total effect value was 0.077). The process of individual-environment interaction showed a greater impact on resilience, which had a direct effect on depression (the total effect value was -0.344, 67.1%), and also indirect effect through self-efficacy (the total effect value was -0.169). The total effect of resilience accounted for 20.1% of the total effect of all variables.
CONCLUSIONS:Resilience mainly impacts depression directly, and can negatively predict depression in only-child loss parents. Resilience, located before self-efficacy, is a significant stress mediating variables. Personality traits and support utilization indirectly impact resilience via negative and positive coping. The key to promote the reorganization of resilience is the process of individual-environmental interaction, involving support utilization, positive coping, and some sorts of negative coping strategies, which plays an important role in developing a resilience intervention program and can improve the depression of the only-child loss person.
