This descriptive associative study focused on work-related factors as determinants of selfefficacy and resilience among 58 purposively-sampled Child Development Workers (CDWs). It specifically aims to profile the CDWs based on various work-related variables, to determine their psychosocial needs, resources, levels of self-efficacy and resilience, and to verify the association and relationship of these variables in relation to self-efficacy and resilience. A questionnaire, comprised of questions on perceived needs and resources and work-related aspects, a modified version of Bandura's (2006) Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, and Smith et al.'s (2008) Brief Resilience Scale, were group administered to the participants. Thereafter, results were analyzed using descriptive and correlation statistics. Results showed that respondents were divided almost equally between the low-and high-scoring groups in both self-efficacy and resilience. Notably, respondents' resilience and self-efficacy mean scores were relatively higher than the expected average score. Correlation further revealed moderate positive relationship between self-efficacy and resilience (r = 0.333). In terms of work-related factors, many of those with high self-efficacy and high resilience scores reported also having: (a) supportive barangay officials, (b) cooperative day care children's parents, (c) satisfaction with pupils, (d) job satisfaction, and (e) life satisfaction in general. As a conclusion, the majority of the 58 selected CDWs reported satisfaction in work-related factors related to the children they cater to, and also work and life in general. In addition, CDWs who had high scores in selfefficacy and resilience reported having support, cooperation and satisfaction.

Using From a Walsh's Family Resilience Framework, this study explored the experiences of overseas Filipino workers' (OFWs) families as narrated by adolescent children of migrant parents. Ten (10) Filipino college-level older adolescents (five were female) served as participants in an in-depth interview. Their narratives explored key family resilience processes using a Deductive Qualitative Analysis using various domains of family resilience (i.e., family belief system, communication processes, and organizational patterns). The study found that: (1) The family adjusts belief systems to accommodate unsettling realities of international labor migration; (2) Roles change in the family to compensate for responsibilities fulfilled by the parent before leaving for another country; and (3) Communication processes were strained, but family members serve as moderators to ease tensions and maintain a pre-migration relationship. This study concluded that the family resilience framework is a robust lens through which migrant families' experiences can be understood. Families generally exert effort to maintain homeostasis and cope with migration's psychological and social costs. A resilience-focused model for addressing psychosocial needs is proposed. Processes more apparent to the Filipino family and opportunities for future research are also discussed.

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Falls, common among aging persons, typically lead to catastrophic health consequences. Studies show several factors influencing an older person’s risk to falling. Depression, a psychological condition, was identified as one of these factors. With the goal of determining potential psychosocial interventions for older persons, the present study explores what other psychological variables may explain falls efficacy, i.e., perceived concern about falling. 81 older adults who were participants in an elderly development program answered a socio-demographic survey and several scales (i.e., Satisfaction with Life Scale, Flourishing Scale, Geriatric Depression Scale – Short Form, Falls Efficacy Scale – International) to measure falls efficacy and other psychological variables. Bivariate correlation revealed that falls efficacy significantly increases as family problems (r=.228, p=.045), health concerns (r=.231, p=0.040), financial difficulties (r=.345, p=.002), and depression (r=.403, p<.001) increase. Conversely, it significantly decreases as psychological well-being (r=-.255, p=.022) and perceived resilience (r=-.459, p<.001) decrease. Multiple regression analysis confirmed that while depression is a significant positive predictor, F (1,79)=15.31, p<.001, R=.403, explaining 16.2% of falls efficacy variance, anxiety-provoking situations (i.e., family problems, health worries, financial worries) also explain additional falls efficacy (6.6% variance), F (4, 71)= 5.234, p<.001, R=.477, wherein financial worry is a significant positive predictor. Furthermore, entering psychological well-being and resilience in the model adds an additional variance of 6.6%, F (6, 69)=4.533, p<.001, R=.532, but only resilience is a significant negative predictor. This paper culminates with recommendations on potential research on the psychosocial dimension of falls and possible interventions to mitigate falls among older persons.