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Relationship of resilience to personality, coping, and
psychiatric symptoms in young adults
Laura Campbell-Sillsa,Ã, Sharon a,b, Murray a,b,c
aAnxiety and Traumatic Stress Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego,
8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite C207, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
bDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4611, USA
cVA San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
Received 1 December 2004; accepted 11 May 2005
Abstract
Developing prehensive understanding of resilience across the lifespan is potentially important for
mental health promotion, yet resilience has been vastly pared to disease and vulnerability.
The present study investigated the relationship of resilience to personality traits, coping styles, and psychiatric
symptoms in a sample of college included the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, NEO
Five Factor Inventory, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, and Brief Symptom
supported hypotheses regarding the relationship of resilience to personality dimensions and coping
was negatively associated with neuroticism, and positively related to extraversion and
styles also predicted variance in resilience above and beyond the contributions of
these personality -oriented coping was positively related to resilience, and mediated the relationship
between conscientiousness and -oriented coping was associated with low ,
resilience was shown to moderate the relationship between a form of childhood maltreatment (emotional
neglect) and current psychiatric results augment the literature that seeks to better define
resilience and provide evidence for the construct validity