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The Personality Of Psychological Resilience And The Relationship Between Resilience And Mental Health

Posted on:2017-05-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H J LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330503489236Subject:Applied Psychology
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Background and Objective:In daily life, every single piece of stress would be effect on people‘s normal activities on different level. To treat the hardship in an objective way, find a proper solution after cognize process and keep balance of mental health, those are not only important for individual to overcome the problem, but also meaningful for personal development. According to research, psychological resilience is focusing on how individual coping and adopting during adversity, which is a key protective factor of mental health. For the large number of youths, they are facing leaving original families for the very first time, and starting a brand new group life in many ways. The chances that they have to deal with difficulties by their own have been raised. Therefore, learning how resilience protects mental health is remarkable for individual growing and development of youth. Researches, so far, covered resilience has the protective function on individual under adversity. However, the mechanism of defense is not revealing yet, because there are lack of accurate measurement and short of theory structure. As well as, the research did not analysis resilience is a whole view of personality and explore the protective mechanism less. Therefore, this study is devoted to learning psychological resilience in multiple perspectives. To start with, this paper explored the potential structure and measurement of psychological resilience. Based on that, this paper sought for personality component of resilience and the relationship between resilience and mental health. The purpose of this study is that judging the strength of resilience and level of mental health through personality analysis. This will increase the implement of function and development of individual positive psychology, as well as inspire protective system of individual during adverse situation.Method: Based on relative theories, this paper began with suggesting Bifactor structure model for psychological resilience and adopting full information analysis of structure and measurement of resilience. Besides that, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC) was extract all public factors and testified the reliability of Bifactor model of resilience. On the meanwhile, the validity was verified through correlation among resilience, social support and self-effectiveness. Therefore, the potential structure of resilience could be clear and definite. With this foundation, in order to learn more about the relationship between resilience and personalities, this paper discussed the connection between the potential structure of resilience and 15FQ+. Finally, resilience factors were explored with SCL-90 and Beck suicidal idea scale, to know the how does the defense mechanism of resilience function on mental health.Results: 1. Resilience is suitable for Bifactor mode. In this way, resilience has a Bifactor structure, which including public factor(resilience resource) and specific factor of resilience, which are strength, power and optimistic. 2. From IRT results, every item shows load on both public and specific factors. Reliability coefficient is ideal, and the test information function suggests the accuracy range of public factor is 0.5-4. Social support has affect on resilience resource as well. They share a positive correlativity. Hence individual who received higher social support would promoting the stability and strengthen of resilience status. This hint Bifactor of resilience has a nice reliability and validity. 3. According to full information analysis, strength shared a negative correlation with both power and optimistic. And power and optimistic had a positive correlation. That revealed a potential relationship among specific factors of resilience. 4. Under Bifactor theory model, personality has a significant influence on psychological resilience. They share a closed bond as well. Public factor of resilience(resource of resilience) has a positive correlation with f A, f B, f C, f F, f G, f H, f I, f N, f Q1 and f Q3, it shares an opposite relationship with 与 f L, f M, f O and f Q4, and it has little correlation with f E and f Q2. Strength factor was positive related to f B and f E and negative related to f I and f O. Others were no significant correlation. Except f F, power factor has no relationship with other personality factors. And optimistic only positive correlate with f A, f B and f H. 5. From the embodied cognition perspective, individual, who is more sensitive and better control of inter awareness, has a better level of resilience. Except dispersibility, public factor of resilience share a significant relationship with other factors in MIMA. For specific factors, strength only has a positive correlation to attention of adjustment and interaction of body. Power and optimistic show no correlation with any factors. 6. As for self-efficacy, the higher efficacy is, the public factor of resilience showed increased. On the other hand, self-efficacy has a low correlation with specific factors of resilience(strength, power and optimistic). This fact shows the real relationship between self-efficacy and resilience. 7. There was a close relationship, which is negative, between psychological resilience and mental health. There is little correlation between each factor of resilience and mental health, except strength has a positive correlation with hostile. In other words, individual with lower resilience degree would face a higher possibility of psychological disease.8. This research showed an inverse correlation result between suicide thoughts and resilience. And each factor of resilience has a negative correlation with suicide idea. Therefore, resilience has protective effect on suicide idea.Conclusion: 1. Psychological resilience fits the Bifactor model: public factor(resilience resource) and specific factor, which including strength, power and optimistic. 2. The gain of resilience resource was effected by personalities, embodied cognition and self-effectiveness, which has little influence on resilience specific factor. 3. Resilience is one of the main factor of protective resource of mental health, in which strength factor protect hostile factor. 4. Resilience could protect suicidal idea; specific factors share the same effect as well.
Keywords/Search Tags:Psychological Resilience, Bifactor, Personality, Mental Health, Suicide Idea
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