Emotional Intelligence by Juan Moises de la Serna

Author:Juan Moises de la Serna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Published: 2017-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3. The Resilience

If we talk about the role that stress has in the emotional world and its consequences on the organism there has to be a reference on resilience, that has turned into a key concept in the last years in psychology like a way of facing life, comparable to the E.I.

The term resilience emerged of the testimonials of survivors of the most extreme cases that a person can suffer, as those that the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II suffered.

It was analyzed, why some of them survived and others didn’t, and from the survivors, why some of them got to “redo their life” and others were mired in despair, and all of them have lived the same war horrors.

From this analysis and testimonials like the one from Victor Frankl, who developed logo therapy as a coping method for these situations; it’s where this type of “formula” emerges to overcome any adversity; something that seems to be tied to the person’s character, but also with its way of thinking and looking at life.

Nowadays this concept is used in therapy, not only to serve people who have survived extremes situations, but also to help them overcome daily challenges, aimed at reinforcing that resilience that everyone has inside, but what’s the role of the family in resilience?

This is what has been tried to find out by conducting research by Duke University School, the Nanyang Technological University, and the Institute of Mental Health (Singapore) whose results have been published in the scientific journal, Psychology.

For doing so, they looked for an extreme situation where to analyze and they found it in the health personnel in charge of attending the most contagious patients and whose disease by its virulence endangered the life of anyone who was nearby without adequate protection.

Such is the case of the nurses who work in health care in the face of an epidemic, that’s why the study was done with nurses and their relatives.

Two types of research were made, in the first one thirty nurses between the ages of 30 to 56 years old and an average of 10 years of service was part of the study. They were given a semi-structured interview to check their level of stress and experience when working with the S.A.R.S. (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

The answers were categorized based on the most used terms by nurses, which tried to define their way of thinking.

One-hundred eleven nurses and eighty-two relatives were part of the second study. All of them were administered three tests, a scale of familiar resilience, one of personal resilience, and the third one about their own perceived health status.

The results show that in the first experiment, these nurses were defined by a spirit of sacrifice for their family, with a good capacity for emotional management, and strong religious beliefs; factors that are all included in resilience.

In the second study, the results obtained were analyzed, with which it was possible to extract factors that were involved in resilience within the

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