Resilience to daily stressors: a systematic review of measures and associations with well-being and mental health in experience sampling studies

Resumen

Resilience is the dynamic process of adapting to or recovering from stressors, maintaining positive mental health outcomes. While most studies have investigated resilience after major life events, less is known about resilience in everyday life. To understand how individuals recover from everyday stressors, and the associations with other psychosocial variables, well-being and mental health, we conducted a systematic review of studies to resilience to daily stressors (daily resilience), using the experience sampling method (ESM). Out of 36 included studies, 11 studies investigated daily resilience in youth (10.9-24.7 years) and 25 in adult samples. Daily resilience was operationalized either with self-report items adapted from trait measures (17 studies) or in terms of affective recovery from daily stressors (20 studies). Self-reported daily resilience reflects subjective experiences of coping with stressors, whereas daily resilience as recovery from daily stressors captures the dynamic process, but is understudied in youth. Resilience to daily stressors was associated with psychosocial variables, including better sleep quality and greater optimism. Furthermore, individuals with mental health problems consistently showed longer recovery times after daily stressors. Overall, ESM studies highlight that resilience to daily stressors could help to identify individuals at-risk for mental health problems. The findings may facilitate timely interventions.

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Zietse, J., Keijsers, L., Hillegers, M. H., Vreeker, A., Van Harmelen, A. L., & de Vries, L. P. (2024). Resilience to daily stressors: a systematic review of measures and associations with well-being and mental health in experience sampling studies. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9yudb