title: Women in substance abuse recovery: measures of resilience and self-differentiation.
abstract: The National Institute of Drug Abuse has promoted drug abuse research in the past two decades focusing on women and gender differences. One hundred twenty-eight Hispanic and White women have participated in this comparative descriptive study that has examined the differences between chemically dependent (CD) women in recovery and non-chemically dependent (non-CD) women in regard to resilience and self-differentiation-demographic variables associated with resilience and self-differentiation and recovery variables associated with resilience and self-differentiation in the CD women. Findings indicate that the CD women and Hispanic women have scored significantly lower on measures of resilience and self-differentiation. Among the recovery variables, resilience and self-differentiation are significant for children support but community support is not significant. The finding that Hispanic and White women in recovery score lower on resilience and self-differentiation is important for designing treatment strategies supportive of women in recovery.
authors.affiliation: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, TX, USA. judith.sutherland@tamucc.edu
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stetina
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hernandez
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016387:Women's Health