Resilience as a Mediator of Hopelessness and Resilience

Ashley, Brianna

Resilience as a Mediator of Hopelessness and Resilience

Persistent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10456/48472

Author(s)

Ashley, Brianna

Date Issued

April 1, 2019

Abstract

Prior research has found that Hopelessness and Heavy Drinking have a significant positive relationship, Hopelessness and Resilience have a significant negative relationship, and that Resilience can work as a protective factor against Heavy Drinking. Even though the prior research explores Resilience as a moderating factor, it does not explore the role of Resilience as a mediating factor of Hopelessness and Heavy Drinking. Based on the prior research, the current study hypothesized that Resilience would work as a mediating factor for the relationship of Hopelessness and Heavy Drinking. The current study examined this role of Resilience as a mediator in a sample of N=38 college students attending a small, private, liberal arts college in the Northeastern United States. Participants completed questionnaires measuring levels of Resilience, levels of Hopelessness, and Heavy Drinking tendencies. Then correlations, regression analyses that modeled Hopelessness and Resilience, and Hopelessness, Resilience and Heavy Drinking, and a mediation analysis that modeled the mediation of Resilience on Hopelessness and Heavy Drinking were conducted to analyze the data. In the present study, the relationship between Hopelessness and Resilience was the only significant finding. The hypothesized relationship of Resilience acting as a mediator for the relationship of Hopelessness and Heavy Drinking was insignificant. Differences between previous literature and the present study are discussed.

Major

Psychology

First Reader(s)

Rutledge, Patricia Carr