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Personal Factors Underlying Resilience in Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Validity of the Prince-Embury Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2017

Mercedes Villasana ,
Jesús Alonso-Tapia  and
Miguel A. Ruiz
Mercedes Villasana
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Jesús Alonso-Tapia*
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Miguel A. Ruiz
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jesús Alonso-Tapia. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. c/ Ivan Pavlov, 6. 28049. Madrid (Spain). E-mail: jesus.alonso@uam.es.
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Abstract

Resiliency personality factors are supposed to underlie resilience. To get evidence on this supposition, the Prince-Embury scales (PES) for adolescents were adapted to the Spanish population. Then, the relationship between the resiliency variables sense of mastery, sense of relatedness and emotional reactivity -assessed with the PES- with resilience -assessed with the Subjective Resilience Questionnaire (SRQ)- were analyzed, as well as the role of social integration within this relationship. Data from 1083 adolescents were analyzed using confirmatory techniques (CFA, PALV). CFA of PES displayed a good fit to the model (CFI: .95). Path-analysis showed that sense of mastery and emotional reactivity predict resilience as expected, but also that, contrary to expectations based on Prince-Embury’s theory, sense of relatedness and resilience are not related, either directly, or through social integration. Being related and socially integrated probably favors well-being, but it may not favor resilience unless associated to Sense of Mastery, at least in adolescence.

Keywords

resiliencyresilienceresiliency assessmentsocial integration
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 20 , 2017 , E42
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2017 

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Footnotes

This work was carried out with funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Project EDU2012–37382).

How to cite this article:

Villasana, M., Alonso-Tapia, J. & Ruiz, M. A. (2017). Personal factors underlying resilience in adolescence: Cross-cultural validity of the Prince-Embury Model. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20. eXX. Doi:10.1017/sjp.2017.39

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