Family resilience: moderating the relationship between psychological trauma and individual adolescent resilience?

Stavrou, S. (Styliani), Ioannou, M. (Myria), Georgiou, S. (Stelios), Stavrinides, P. (Panayiotis)

 

Submission type

Poster only

Scheduled

Hallway, 22-07-2016, 16:00 - 17:00

Keywords

resilience, family resilience, psychological trauma, post-traumatic stress

Summary

Previous research on resilience supported protective factors on the individual (e.g. age, education) and the family (e.g. spirituality, financial management) level. It is not clear yet what is the relation between family and individual resilience and how family resilience impacts the adolescents’ traumatic stress. The present study aims to examine family resilience as a potential moderator in the relationship between psychological trauma and adolescent resilience. 200 adolescents aged 12-18 years old participated in this study and completed the Traumatic Events Screening Inventory for Children self-report (TESI-C-SR), the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES) and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). Their parents completed the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) and the parental form of TESI. Traumatic stress response had a direct significant negative effect on individual resilience levels. Being in a family with high resilience levels did not result to higher, but to lower individual resilience, and the model had good fit, with χ2 (84) = 146.901, p< .001, CFI= .938, TLI= .917, RMSEA= .069 (90% CI .050, .088), PCLOSE= .048. The findings support the differential susceptibility to stress hypothesis, as adolescents in low stress environments (e.g., with high family resilience) may have limited potential to develop high individual resilience.

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