Prof. Ralf Schwarzer

时间： 2016-04-28 12:30 - 14:30

地点： Wang Kezhen Building 1113

Coping with challenges and adversity can be facilitated by personal resources such as perceived self-efficacy as well as by social resources such as social support. The theoretical background of personal and social resource factors will be described, and the mechanisms how they may be related to various psychosocial outcomes and behaviors will be investigated. Such mechanisms are mainly studied in terms of mediation and moderation. One example is a reanalysis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and resilience in New York police officers who were involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack. Other examples are on migrants, cardiac surgery patients, and factory workers. In multimorbid senior citizen, friend support as well as self-efficacy predict physical exercise frequency and autonomy: those with low support were less likely to be active even if they were highly self-efficacious; low self-efficacy and low support were jointly associated with lack of autonomy; receiving social support bolstered autonomy in lower self-efficacious individuals, but support threatened autonomy in highly self-efficacious individuals. Advances in the study of personal and social resources, using more complex mechanisms, are discussed.

2016-04-28

2016-04-28