Resilience predictors in the post-pandemic era: A study on Italian adolescents

Titolo Rivista RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Autori/Curatori Giulia Perasso, Grazia Serantoni, Carmela Lillo, Patrizio Paoletti, Alessandro Maculan, Francesca Vianello, Tania Di Giuseppe
Pubblicazione Online First 02/08/2024 Fascicolo 2023/4
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 19 P. 93-111 Dimensione file 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip2023oa18275
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Resilience is the ability to emerge strengthened from adversity. Recently, as the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted adolescents’ growth processes, investigating which psychosocial variables make adolescents resilient has become essential. The aim of the study is to investigate which are the significant predictors of resilience in a sample of Italian adolescent students (N = 1266, 47% male, mean age = 14.96 years) one year after the end of the pandemic. Participants responded to a battery of tests, administered online, that included measures of: resilience, ad hoc items on meditation frequency, self-compassion, self-efficacy in managing positive and negative emotions, and coping. The results of a linear regression model revealed that the predictors of resilience in adolescents in the post-pandemic period were: frequency of meditation (ß =.61, p <.01), self-efficacy in regulating positive and negative emotions (ß =. 41, p <.001; ß = .19, p << 001), self-reliance (ß = .11, p < <.001), mindfulness (ß = .11, p < 01), low over-identification (ß = -.06, p < 05), future perspective (ß = .11, p <.001) and problem orientation (ß = .17, p << 001). These findings emphasize the importance of cultivating these psychosocial variables to promote adolescents resilience in the face of adversity. The implications of the present study are discussed.

Parole chiave:Resilience;Adolescence;Covid-19;post-pandemic period;meditation; Self-efficacy;Emotion Regulation; Self-compassion

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Giulia Perasso, Grazia Serantoni, Carmela Lillo, Patrizio Paoletti, Alessandro Maculan, Francesca Vianello, Tania Di Giuseppe, Resilience predictors in the post-pandemic era: A study on Italian adolescents in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 4/2023, pp 93-111, DOI: 10.3280/rip2023oa18275