How can social connectedness foster patient resilience?
Potential implications for health care practice and health campaigns
Background: Resilience is one’s capacity to maintain or regain well-being in the face of adversity, such as having a physical illness (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). Building health resilience has become a prominent health care goal and identifying the factors that allow people to adapt successfully to a negative life event is becoming more and more important (Wulff, Donato, & Lurie, 2014). A recent study showed that resilient individuals have a better 10-year survival chance (25% less likely to die) than non-resilient individuals suffering from chronic pain (Elliott, Burton, & Hannaford, 2014), highlighting the importance of …show more content…
For example, Elliott, Burton, & Hannaford, (2014) categorized individuals as resilient if they reported low pain-related disability in presence of high-intensity pain. Similarly, we conceptualized resilience as retaining high level of life satisfaction despite of having a chronic physical illness. Life satisfaction is a reliable proxy of well-being as it is considered to be a cognitive measure of subjective quality of one’s life (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999).
Resilience has several intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors (Buzzanell, 2010; Davydov, Stewart, Ritchie, & Chaudieu, 2010; Johnston et al., 2015). Social support - including support from family and friends - is highly associated with resilience in the physically ill (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). The goal of this paper is to examine how social connectedness can foster resilience, i.e. determine the aspects of social relationships predicting patients’ capacity to remain satisfied with their …show more content…
M., Stewart, R., Ritchie, K., & Chaudieu, I. (2010). Resilience and mental health. Clinical Psychology Review, 30(5), 479–495. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2010.03.003
Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. E. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302.
Elliott, A. M., Burton, C. D., & Hannaford, P. C. (2014). Resilience does matter: evidence from a 10-year cohort record linkage study. BMJ Open, 4(1), e003917.
Johnston, M. C., Porteous, T., Crilly, M. a., Burton, C. D., Elliott, A., Iversen, L., … Black, C. (2015). Physical Disease and Resilient Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Resilience Definitions and Study Methods. Psychosomatics, (April), 168–180. doi:10.1016/j.psym.2014.10.005
Luthar, S. S., & Zelazo, L. B. (2003). Research on resilience: An integrative review. In: Luthar, S. S. Resilience and vulnerability: Adaptation in the context of childhood adversities. Cambridge University Press.
Stewart, D. E., & Yuen, T. (2011). A systematic review of resilience in the physically ill. Psychosomatics, 52(3), 199-209.
Wulff, K., Donato, D., & Lurie, N. (2014). What Is Health Resilience and How Can We Build It? Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 150112150436006.
Potential implications for health care practice and health campaigns
Background: Resilience is one’s capacity to maintain or regain well-being in the face of adversity, such as having a physical illness (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). Building health resilience has become a prominent health care goal and identifying the factors that allow people to adapt successfully to a negative life event is becoming more and more important (Wulff, Donato, & Lurie, 2014). A recent study showed that resilient individuals have a better 10-year survival chance (25% less likely to die) than non-resilient individuals suffering from chronic pain (Elliott, Burton, & Hannaford, 2014), highlighting the importance of …show more content…
For example, Elliott, Burton, & Hannaford, (2014) categorized individuals as resilient if they reported low pain-related disability in presence of high-intensity pain. Similarly, we conceptualized resilience as retaining high level of life satisfaction despite of having a chronic physical illness. Life satisfaction is a reliable proxy of well-being as it is considered to be a cognitive measure of subjective quality of one’s life (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999).
Resilience has several intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors (Buzzanell, 2010; Davydov, Stewart, Ritchie, & Chaudieu, 2010; Johnston et al., 2015). Social support - including support from family and friends - is highly associated with resilience in the physically ill (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). The goal of this paper is to examine how social connectedness can foster resilience, i.e. determine the aspects of social relationships predicting patients’ capacity to remain satisfied with their …show more content…
M., Stewart, R., Ritchie, K., & Chaudieu, I. (2010). Resilience and mental health. Clinical Psychology Review, 30(5), 479–495. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2010.03.003
Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. E. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302.
Elliott, A. M., Burton, C. D., & Hannaford, P. C. (2014). Resilience does matter: evidence from a 10-year cohort record linkage study. BMJ Open, 4(1), e003917.
Johnston, M. C., Porteous, T., Crilly, M. a., Burton, C. D., Elliott, A., Iversen, L., … Black, C. (2015). Physical Disease and Resilient Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Resilience Definitions and Study Methods. Psychosomatics, (April), 168–180. doi:10.1016/j.psym.2014.10.005
Luthar, S. S., & Zelazo, L. B. (2003). Research on resilience: An integrative review. In: Luthar, S. S. Resilience and vulnerability: Adaptation in the context of childhood adversities. Cambridge University Press.
Stewart, D. E., & Yuen, T. (2011). A systematic review of resilience in the physically ill. Psychosomatics, 52(3), 199-209.
Wulff, K., Donato, D., & Lurie, N. (2014). What Is Health Resilience and How Can We Build It? Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 150112150436006.