College students’ resilience-promoting behaviors and psychological well-being: A latent class analysis

Background and objectives: Interventions to mitigate the negative impact of stress on college students through resilience-building strategies are attracting considerable interest; however, there has been little discussion regarding the strategies college students readily use to build their resilience. This study (1) describes and identifies patterns of college students’ resilience-promoting behaviors and (2) examines the relationships of resilience-promoting strategies with trait resilience and well-being. Design and methods: Data were collected via an anonymous online survey from a sample of 774 college students ages 18–26 in April 2021. A series of Latent Class Analyses Models and Latent Class with Distal Outcomes models were used to identify resilience-building profiles, and if the latent classes identified by the latent class model differed in the levels of resilience level and well-being. Results: Three distinct groups were identified based on students’ strategy profiles: (1) “all-strategies” group used all strategies on the survey, (2) “self-care” group used self-care strategies but less relational/mental strategies, and (3) “low-adoption” group used few resilience-promoting strategies. The “low-adoption” group was significantly lower in trait resilience and well-being compared to the other two groups. Conclusions: Understanding preferred resilience strategies and resilience profiles of young adult college students can assist universities in planning health promotion programs to address student needs.

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: College students’ resilience-promoting behaviors and psychological well-being: A latent class analysis ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; year:2024 ; extent:8 ; Open health ; 5, Heft 1 (2024) (gesamt 8)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Sha, Shuying ; Heller, Kimberly ; Hartson, Kimberly Rapp ; Hall, Lynne

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/ohe-2023-0041
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2408301625196.278979300117
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.