ERIC Number: EJ1221522
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Aug
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Profiles of Psychological Resilience in College Students with Disabilities
Ganguly, Rahul; Perera, Harsha N.
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v37 n5 p635-651 Aug 2019
The present article reports on research conducted to identify profiles of psychological resilience using factor mixture models. We also examine gender as a predictor of resilience profile membership and career optimism, academic satisfaction, and psychological well-being as outcomes of profile membership. Based on resilience data from university students with disabilities, factor mixture modeling revealed three distinct profiles of resilience (viz., "vulnerable," "spirituality-dominant," and "engaged-resilient"). Results also revealed that females were almost 4 times as likely to be in the spirituality-dominant profile than the vulnerable profile. Finally, distal outcome analyses revealed that career optimism, academic satisfaction, and well-being were higher in the engaged-resilient profile than the other profiles. Notably, spirituality-dominant and vulnerable individuals possessed about the same levels of career optimism, satisfaction, and well-being. The findings have important implications for the theory and assessment of resilience, suggesting the tenability of a person-centered assessment of psychological resilience.
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), College Students, Students with Disabilities, Gender Differences, Student Satisfaction, Student Welfare, Positive Attitudes, Career Planning, Persistence, Student Adjustment, Competence, Stress Management, Personal Autonomy, Interpersonal Relationship, Religious Factors, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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