title: Resilience Patterns: Improving Stress Adaptation Based on an Individual's Personal Features.
abstract: Resilience, or the capacity to be able to develop oneself successfully despite adverse circumstances, has become a concept of interest in recent years. There is a clear relationship between resilience, psychological well-being, and coping strategies. This study looked at 890 subjects with a mean age of 46.77 (SD = 20.86) years, ranging from 18 and 95 years old. The participants were 40.6% men and 59.4% women. Using this sample, three clusters were developed by MATLAB R2010a and the Self-Organizing Maps toolbox. Two of these had high resilience, and the other one had low resilience; the psychological well-being variables and coping strategies were taken into account. Thereafter, multivariate analysis of variance showed a group effect for the resilience, psychological well-being, and coping strategies variables. Establishing resilient profiles based on variables such as psychological well-being and coping strategies reveals the best features for coping with stressful situations; this could help to promote nonpharmacological therapies for increasing resilience.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Spain teresamayordomor@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mayordomo-Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: García-Massó
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sales-Galán
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Meléndez-Moral
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Serra-Añó
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: adaptation; coping strategies; patterns; resilience; well-being