Resiliência é compreendida como um padrão de funcionamento adaptativo frente aos riscos atuais e acumulados ao longo da vida. Engloba uma variedade de recursos psicológicos, essenciais para a superação de adversidades, como as competências pessoais, as auto-crenças e o controle interpessoal em interação com os apoios sociais. Os objetivos são apresentar conceitos de resiliência psicológica em idosos, associados aos modelos teóricos dominantes e descrever os principais dados encontrados em revisão de literatura internacional e brasileira, período 2007 – 2013. Foram utilizadas as bases de dados PubMed, PsychoInfo, SciELO e Pepsic, como descritores os termos resilience, psychological resilience e aging e resiliência e envelhecimento, velhice e velho. Foram selecionados e analisados 53 artigos internacionais e onze nacionais. Os artigos internacionais foram classificados em quatro categorias: recursos psicológicos e sociais de enfrentamento, regulação emocional frente a experiências estressantes, resiliência e envelhecimento bem-sucedido e correlatos e medidas de resiliência. Os artigos brasileiros foram agrupados nas categorias recursos psicológicos e sociais de enfrentamento, resiliência em cuidadores e revisão teórica. Predominam artigos sobre recursos psicológicos e sociais e sobre regulação emocional como fatores-chave associados à resiliência psicológica na velhice.
Psychological resilience is comprised of an adaptive functioning standard before the current and accumulated risks of life. Furthermore, it has a comprehensive range of psychological resources which are essential to overcome adversities, such as personal competences, self-beliefs and interpersonal control which interact with the social networks support. The objectives are to show the concepts of psychological resilience in elderly, relative to dominant theoretical models and the main data about psychological resilience in aging, found in an international and Brazilian review from 2007 to 2013. The descriptors “resilience, psychological resilience and aging”, “resiliência e envelhecimento, velhice e velho”, were used in PubMed, PsychInfo, SciELO and Pepsic databases. Fifity three international and eleven national articles were selected. The international articles were classified in four categories: psychological and social coping resources, emotional regulation before stressing experiences, successful resilience and aging and correlates, and resilience measures. The Brazilian articles were grouped in three: psychological and social resources, resilience in carers and theory review. Articles on psychological resources and on emotional regulation prevailed as key factors associated with psychological resilience in aging.
Psychological resilience is comprised of an adaptive functioning standard before the current and accumulated risks of life. Furthermore, it has a comprehensive range of psychological resources which are essential to overcome adversities, such as personal competences, self-beliefs and interpersonal control which interact with the social networks support. The objectives are to show the concepts of psychological resilience in elderly, relative to dominant theoretical models and the main data about psychological resilience in aging, found in an international and Brazilian review from 2007 to 2013. The descriptors “resilience, psychological resilience and aging”, “resiliência e envelhecimento, velhice e velho”, were used in PubMed, PsychInfo, SciELO and Pepsic databases. Fifity three international and eleven national articles were selected. The international articles were classified in four categories: psychological and social coping resources, emotional regulation before stressing experiences, successful resilience and aging and correlates, and resilience measures. The Brazilian articles were grouped in three: psychological and social resources, resilience in carers and theory review. Articles on psychological resources and on emotional regulation prevailed as key factors associated with psychological resilience in aging.
Fontes, A.P., Neri, A.L.. Resiliência e velhice: revisão de literatura. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2014/Jun). [Citado em 28/09/2024].
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