Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Abstract This study examines 2 resilience resources as they relate to health and well-being in an elderly sample. It is suggested that these resources serve as reserves that an individual can use to compensate for age-related loss. Of particular interest in this study are the internal personality reserve, hardiness, and the external reserve, social support. Hardiness was examined as both a mediator and moderator of the relation between social support (i.e., quantity of family support and friend support) and outcome (depression, life satisfaction, and self-reported health). Across type of support and outcome, evidence was found for the mediational model, suggesting that the relation between social support and outcome decreases once hardiness is taken into account. Model-fitting analyses provided additional support for the mediator model once error had been attenuated. Overall, these results suggest that consideration of either construct alone may be less complete than consideration of them in combination.
Wallace et al. (Sat,) studied this question.