The role of positivity as predictor of ego-resiliency from adolescence to young adulthood

Cultural Contributors to Ego‐Resiliency and Associations with Depressive Problems in Midwestern Latino Youth

“…Also, it is plausible that there are bidirectional relations between familism and ego‐resiliency, or that the direction is opposite with ego‐resiliency predicting familistic values. However, the direction that we hypothesize in our model is consistent with the general research on ego‐resiliency which has found that development of ego‐resiliency is facilitated by parenting behaviors and socialization (e.g., Alessandri et al., ; J. H. Block & Block, ; Hofer et al., ; Kobak & Sceery, ; Milioni et al., ; Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad, Eggum, & Sulik 2013; Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Widaman, 2013). Socialization of the attitudinal familism would be expected to function in a similar manner.…”

“…With regard to dispositional characteristics, self‐regulatory traits such as effortful control have been associated with ego‐resiliency (Eisenberg et al., ; Martel et al., ) and may provide critical skills for emerging ego‐resiliency in childhood (Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Widaman, 2013). Positive and negative emotionality also appear to contribute to trajectories of ego‐resiliency in childhood (Taylor, Eisenberg, et al., 2014) and in adolescence and early adulthood (Alessandri et al., ; Milioni, Alessandri, Eisenberg, & Caprara, ).…”

“…In contrast, parents who were observed to be intrusive during laboratory sessions had children with lower ego‐resiliency (Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad, Eggum, & Sulik, 2013; Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Widaman, 2013). Perceived social support from family and ego‐resiliency have been linked in early adulthood (Taylor, Doane, & Eisenberg, 2014), and familial support reported during adolescence also predicts trajectories of ego‐resiliency in early adulthood (Milioni et al., ). Overall, these studies suggest that family support and positive parenting behaviors foster ego‐resiliency across childhood, adolescence, and into emerging adulthood.…”

A response to commentaries on positivity

“…Thus far, most of research has focused on the impact of positivity on health, performance, and well‐being across domains of functioning. As documented in our review, findings corroborate the protective function that positivity exerts over the life course by sustaining and promoting individual qualities that have proven crucial to promote health, well‐being, and successful adaptation such as resilience, positive affect, secure attachment, prosociality, and self‐efficacy as well as in contrasting undesirable outcomes such as depression and delinquency (Alessandri, Caprara, & Tisak, , ; Alessandri, Zuffianò, Fabes, Vecchione, & Martin, ; Caprara et al., ; Caprara, Steca, Alessandri, Abela, & McWhinnie, ; Milioni, Alessandri, Eisenberg, & Caprara, ).…”

Associations of positive orientation with health and psychosocial adaptation: A review of findings and perspectives

“…In this regard, empirical studies have pointed to the strong links of positive orientation with individuals' adaptive traits such as ego‐resiliency and important self‐beliefs such as self‐efficacy (G. V. Caprara, Alessandri, & Barbaranelli, ; Milioni, Alessandri, Eisenberg, & Caprara, ). Importantly, positive orientation has resulted highly with and negatively associated to (but distinct from) depression, in accordance with cognitive theories positing negative views of oneself, one's surrounding world, and one's expected future among the distinctive features of the depressive syndrome (Beck, , ).…”