From resilience to coping strategies: gender differences in sicilian adolescents

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Revista INFAD. Número 1, volumen 2 de 2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2022.n1.v2.2311
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resilience well-being coping self efficacy

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Elisabetta Sagone
Maria Luisa Indiana

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The objective of thisresearch isto examineself-efficacyin lifeskills, psychological well-being,coping strategies, and dispositional resilience in a sample of 566 Sicilian adolescents between 14 and 19 years old (338 boys and 228 girls). Measures: 1) Self-Efficacyin Life Skills Scales(Sagone & Indiana, 2017) to analyze problem-solving ability, interpersonal and social communication ability, and managing of positive and negative emotions; 2) Psychological Well-Being Scale (Zani & Cicognani, 1999); 3) il Coping Orientation to the Problems ExperiencedNVI (Foà et al., 2015); 4) Dispositional Resilience Scale (Prati, 2010; Sagone & De Caroli, 2014) with the dimensions of rigidity, alienation, and positive attitudes. Results pointed out that boys obtain higher scores both in selfefficacy in life skills than girls, perceiving themselves as highly efficient in managing negative emotions and in psychological well-being, expressing high environmental mastery, high self-acceptance, and positive relations with others. With referenceto coping strategies, boystend to use mainly coping toward orientation to the problem. Lastly, for dispositional resilience, boys show more positive attitudes and rigidity than girls, while girls express higher alienation than boys. Future research will be focused on the promotion of educational actions useful to improve the psychological profiles of adolescents, with particular attention to the empowerment of deficient psychological dimensions that mainly emerged in the group of female adolescents.

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Sagone, E., & Indiana, M. L. (2022). From resilience to coping strategies: gender differences in sicilian adolescents. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 17–26. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2022.n1.v2.2311
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