Structural Relationship Among Resilience and Related Variables in Adult Children of Addicts

This study aimed to examine the structural relationship between resilience and social support, emotion regulation, and self-efficacy to facilitate the healthy recovery and growth of adult children who have experienced traumatic environments of addiction in their parents.Apropos this, data were collected from a sample of 480 adult children (34.0%males, 65.0% females) aged 18 or older, residing in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, and Chungcheongnam-do, who had parents with addiction.The data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0, employing structural equation modeling to examine the mediating pathways of emotion regulation and self-efficacy between social support and resilience.The research model showed a good fit with the following fit indices: χ² = 2054.254(df = 48, p = 0.000), NFI = 0.922, RFI = 0.874, IFI = 0.924, TLI = 0.876, CFI = 0.924.There were partial mediating effects of emotion regulation and self-efficacy on the relationship between social support and resilience in adult children of addicts.This study emphasizes the significance of resilience for the growth of adult children of addicts, shifting the focus of counseling interventions and programs from a disease model to a recovery perspective.Additionally, this study contributes to exploring the influence of relevant variables on resilience.It provides specific information for the development of counseling interventions and programs aimed at increasing resilience in this population.