A Re-Examination of the Individual Differences That Explain Occupational Resilience and Psychological Adjustment Among Nurses.

This study re-examines the validity of a model of occupational resilience for use by nursing managers, which focused on an individual-differences approach that explained buffering factors against negative outcomes such as burnout for nurses.The International Collaboration of Workforce Resilience model (Rees et al., 2015) provided initial evidence of its value as a parsimonious model of resilience, and resilience antecedents and outcomes (e.g., burnout). Whether this model's adequacy was largely sample dependent, or a valid explanation of occupational resilience, has been subsequently un-examined in the literature to date. To address this question, we re-examined the model with a larger and an entirely new sample of student nurses.A sample of nursing students (n = 708, Age = 26.4 (7.7) years), with data examined via a rigorous latent factor structural equation model.The model upheld many of its relationship predictions following further testing.The model was able to explain the individual differences, antecedents, and burnout-related outcomes, of resilience within a nursing context.The results highlight the importance of skills training to develop mindfulness and self-efficacy among nurses as a means of fostering resilience and positive psychological adjustment. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.