Autor(es):
Veiga-Branco, Augusta 
; Correia, José ; Marques-Teixeira, João
Data: 2011
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/6891
Origem: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
Assunto(s): Negative resilience; Positive resilience; Emotional competence; Ground theory; Well-being
Descrição
To contribute to the Resilience understanding, as an integrating construct
(Zautra et al., 2008) and a dynamic process of effective adaptation in the face
of adversity (Luthar, 2006), in this study, we identify two Resilience profiles:
Positive and Negative, respectively, that comprising the Major and Minor
Emotional Competence Profile, in previous study (Veiga-Branco, 2007).
Aim: To identify attitudes that build different Resilience.
Method: Qualitative and retrospective study – second of a joint study
(quantitative/qualitative) on "Emotional Competence Profile" - developing a
"ground theory", from the speeches of semi-structured, in-depth interviews, -
using a Guide with 25 questions built for this purpose – made to an
intentional sample (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) of 18 individuals: 10 men and 8
women, 29 to 53 years old, teachers in primary and secondary schools in
northern Portugal, with 5 to 10 years in the profession. This sample was
selected from the minimum and maximum scores found in responses to the
"Emotional Competence Veiga Scale" (Veiga-Branco, 2004) in the previous
quantitative study.
Results: The discoursive content of the interviews, displays two Resilience
Profiles:
1. "Positive Resilient - Determination and Tenderness" – personal
determination built on the experiences of suffering, as a legacy of dignity and
strength, which enhances feelings of self-esteem, self-confidence and selfconcept
of positive dispositional attribution, without anger or self-pity. This
falls in the "Greater Emotional Competence Profile" experienced: the
implementation of its strategies, illustrates very effective operational routes.
2. "Negative Resilient - Affectivity and Deprivation" - it emerges from hurtful
walks of life and great suffering, but - as opposed to the first - with feelings of
negative emotional tone (self-pity, emotional deprivation and relational
dependence) and it generates categories which insert the "Minor Emotional
Competence Profile" because the strategies (personal and contextual) of
emotional management seems operative, but not effective enough.
