Two Sides of the Same Coin and Two Routes for Improvement: Integrating Resilience and the Social Identity Approach to Well-being and Ill-health

Overview

Journal Health Psychol Open

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Psychology

Date 2018 Jan 31

PMID 29379612

Citations 2

Authors

Rolf van Dick

Charlene Ketturat

Jan Alexander Hausser

Andreas Mojzisch

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Abstract

We propose that resilience effectively helps people cope with stress, thus predominantly reducing the negative. However, we argue that individuals' social identification has the potential to contribute to their well-being, thus fostering the positive. A two-wave survey study of 180 students shows that resilience is more strongly (negatively) associated with ill-health (i.e. stress and depression), whereas social identification is more strongly (positively) related to well-being (i.e. satisfaction and work engagement). We believe that it is necessary to see these two routes to improving people's health as complementary, both in future research and for therapy and interventions.

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