Resilience training in the workplace from 2003 to 2014: a systematic review

Robertson, I.T., Cooper, C.L., Sarkar, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-8338-8500 and Curran, T., 2015. Resilience training in the workplace from 2003 to 2014: a systematic review. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88 (3), pp. 533-562. ISSN 0963-1798

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Abstract

Over a decade of research attests to the importance of resilience in the workplace for employee well-being and performance. Yet, surprisingly, there has been no attempt to synthesize the evidence for the efficacy of resilience training in this context.
The purpose of this study, therefore, is to provide a systematic review of work-based resilience training interventions. Our review identified 14 studies that investigated the impact of resilience training on personal resilience and four broad categories of dependent variables: (a) mental health and subjective well-being outcomes, (b) psychosocial outcomes, (c) physical/biological outcomes, and (d) performance outcomes.
Findings indicated that resilience training can improve personal resilience, and is a useful means of developing mental health and subjective well-being in employees. We also found that resilience training has a number of wider benefits that include enhanced psychosocial functioning and improved performance.
Due to the lack of coherence in design and implementation, we cannot draw any firm conclusions about the most effective content and format of resilience training. Therefore, going forward, it is vital that future research uses comparative designs to assess the utility of different training regimes, explores whether some people might benefit more/less from resilience training, and demonstrates consistency in terms of how resilience is defined, conceptualized, developed, and assessed.

Item Type:	Journal article
Alternative Title:	Review of resilience training
Description:	Special issue: Designing and evaluating resource-oriented interventions to enhance employee well-being and health.
Publication Title:	Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Creators:	Robertson, I.T., Cooper, C.L., Sarkar, M. and Curran, T.
Publisher:	Wiley for British Psychological Society
Date:	September 2015
Volume:	88
Number:	3
ISSN:	0963-1798
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/joop.12120 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 09:56
Last Modified:	28 Jun 2017 10:55
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5063

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