A Concept Analysis of Ego-resiliency

Yeo Won Jeong; Jung A Kim

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Jeong and Kim: A Concept Analysis of Ego-resiliency

Original Article

Korean J Adult Nurs 2015;27(6):644-655.

Published online: December 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7469/kjan.2015.27.6.644

A Concept Analysis of Ego-resiliency

Yeo Won Jeong¹, Jung A Kim^2,

^¹Department of Nursing, GraduateSchool of Hanyang University, Seoul

^²College of Nursing, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding author: Kim, Jung A College of Nursing, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-191, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2220-0799, Fax: +82-2-2297-8613, E-mail: joyhippo@hanyang.ac.kr

Received 28 August 20159 December 2015 Accepted 12 December 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

This study was aimed to clarify the concept of ego-resiliency in the context of nursing and to propose a definitionof ego-resiliency.

Methods

Rodgers' evolutionary approach to concept analysis was used to identify common attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the term ego-resiliency. A literature search of the RISS, NDSL, NAL, CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus databases from 1980 to 2014 was conducted, using the key words of ego-resiliency, ego-resilience, and ego-resilient. Thirty-four relevant articles and one book were finally selected and throughly reviewed.

Results

The results of the concept analysis concluded that ego-resiliency was a individualized, integrated, and coping resource and capacity leading personal adaptive capacity including physical, psychological, social well being in various adversity and challenge of life.

Conclusion

The findings of this study warranted nursing research on a development of nursing intervention related with ego-resiliency as a pivotal personal characteristic. By doing so, better understanding of human and health within the context of nursing could be achieved.

Keywords: Ego-resiliency, Resilience, Concept analysis

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Figure 1.

Literature search and selection algorithm.

Figure 2.

Conceptual diagram of ego-resiliency.

Table 1.

Literature Review Analysis Criteria

Items	Analysis criteria
General information related to article	Title
	Author
	Journal
	Year of publication
	Discipline of authors
	Population [if needed]
Concept characteristics	Definitions
	Antecedents
	Attributes
	Consequences
	Surrogate terms
	Related terms
	Others

Table 2.

Some of the Definitions of Ego-resiliency

Author (s). [year, reference no.]	Definition
Gjerde PF, et al. [1986, 29]	Individual's dynamic capacity to modify his or her modal behavior in the face of changing environmental demand characteristics
Block J, et al. [1996, 6]	The dynamic capacity of an individual to modify a characteristic level of ego-control, in either direction, as a function of the demand characteristics of the environmental context so as to preserve of enhance system equilibration
Klohnen EC. [1996, 2]	A personality resource that allows individuals to modify their characteristic level and habitual mode of expression of ego-control so as to most adaptively encounter, function in, and shape their immediate and long-term environmental context
Luthar SS, et al. [2000, 4]	A set of traits reflecting general resourcefulness and sturdiness of character, and flexibility of functioning in response to varying environmental circumstances
Letzring T.D, et al. [2005, 30]	Meta-dimension of the dynamic capacity to contextually modify one's level of control in response to situational demands and affordances
Chuang S.S, et al. [2006, 17]	The capacity to adapt to changing environments and life circumstances
Alessandri G, et al. [2007, 1]	Personality that tap adjustment, effective coping, intellectual functioning, flexibility and an engaging and active approach to the world
Milioni M, et al. [2015, 22]	A balance of the individual's adaptive capacities on emotional level

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