Relationships between Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Thinking Styles in Italian Middle Adolescents

The Influence of Perceived Social Support and Self-Efficacy on Resilience among First Year Malaysian Students

“…A higher perceived social support and self-efficacy reduced the probability of falling into the low resilience category and increased the probability of being in either the moderate or high resilience category. This finding further strengthens the fact that both perceived social support and self-efficacy enhances resilience (Hamill, 2003;Sagone and Caroli, 2013). Similarly, the results also imply that support from friends is a better predictor of resilience compared to support from family.…”

“…Not only did self-efficacy significantly predict resilience, but the converse was also true. In their study to determine the relationship between resilience, self-efficacy and thinking styles among 130 Italian adolescents, Sagone and Caroli (2013) found that adolescents who were highly resilient also felt they were better able to cope with hardships in various domains in their lives. This suggests that having a good sense of self-efficacy not only predicted resilience but was also an outcome of resilience.…”

“…Students who have better perceived social support are hypothesised to have significantly higher resilience. Sagone and Caroli (2013) studied the relationship between resilience, self-efficacy, and thinking styles among 130 Italian adolescents. It was found that with regard to resilience, adolescents who had high resilience perceived themselves to be highly effective in general and scholastic tasks.…”

“Yes … I can”: psychological resilience and self-efficacy in adolescents

“…As recently realized in Italian school-context (Sagone & De Caroli, 2013), we applied the model of Wagnild and Young (1993) for the analysis of resilience verifying the hypothesis according to which the adolescents with high levels of resilience perceived themselves as more efficient in general (and, specifically, in scholastic context) than those with low levels of resilience. It is noteworthy to distinguish the generalized selfefficacy (Schwarzer, 1994;Scherbaum, Cohen-Charash, & Kern, 2006) and the situationally-oriented and domain-specific self-efficacy (Pajares, 1996); so, as noted by Schwarzer (1994), the former corresponds to the belief in one's competence to cope with a broad range of stressful situations or challenging demands (see Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1995), whilst the latter is conceptualized as the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1997), significant differences among individuals are noted in the level of difficulty of tasks that they believe they can perform, in the strength of their beliefs about their ability to achieve a given level of difficulty, and, lastly, in the generality, that is referred to the idea according to which "efficacy beliefs associated with one activity can be generalized to similar ones within the same activity domain or across a range of activities" (see Holladay & Quinones, 2003, p.1094.…”

The predictive role of autonomous-related self of adolescent and the critical thinking disposition of parents on adolescent psychological resilience

“…By the way when the critical thinking disposition of father was investigated singlehandedly it was related with psychological resilience by contrast with this finding there was no relation with critical thinking disposition of mother. This finding is in coherent with the study of Sagone (2013) stating that there is a positive relationship between psychological resilience and different thinking styles. And also the effect of "father" on adolescents can be explained with the patriarchal family structure in Turkey and the "strong, protective, supportive" role models of fathers on adolescents.…”