Informing efforts to prevent family maltreatment among airmen: A focus on personal resilience
- Jensen, T.M.,Bowen, & G. L.(2018) Informing efforts to prevent family maltreatment among airmen:A focus on personal resilience.Journal of Family Social Work, 21(2), 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2017.1410270
- Personal resilience is an individual’s self-efficacy in handling unexpected problems combined with their ability to regulate stress and emotions in times of adversity. The current study examined factors that can strengthen personal resilience with the expectation that personal resilience aids in preventing family maltreatment (perpetration of non-accidental physical, sexual, or emotional trauma, abuse, or neglect toward an intimate partner or child). Several factors were investigated as predictors of personal resilience: individual fitness (physical, behavioral, and psychological); safe, stable, and nurturing family characteristics (SSNF); informal support (connection with fellow service members); unit-leader support (e.g., providing direct support to Airmen and families); and perceptions of neighborhood safety. This study helped to both create and validate a measurement model for predicting personal resilience.
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