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: This paper addresses psychological resilience, a multidisciplinary theoretical construct with important practical implications for health sciences. Although many definitions have been proposed in several contexts, an essential understanding of the concept is still lacking up to now. This negatively affects comparisons among research results and makes objective measurement difficult. The aim of this review is to identify shared elements in defining the construct of resilience across the literature examined in order to move toward a conceptual unification of the term. : A literature review was performed using the electronic databases 'PubMed' and 'PsycINFO'. Scientific studies written in English between 2002 and May 2019 were included according to the following key terms: 'Psychological', 'resilience', and 'definition'. The review identifies five macro-categories that summarize what has been reported in the recent literature concerning the resilience phenomenon. They serve as a preliminary and necessary step toward a conceptual clarification of the construct. We propose a definition of psychological resilience as the ability to maintain the persistence of one's orientation towards

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Author

Antonella Sisto; Flavia Vicinanza; Laura Leondina Campanozzi; Giovanna Ricci; Daniela Tartaglini; Vittoradolfo Tambone

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)