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Johnson et al 2017 conducted a study in order to investigate psychological factors which confer resilience to emotional distress in response to failure error and mistakes and to evaluate and compare the evidence for different types of psychological variables in conferring resilience They used Bi Dimensional Framework for resilience research to buffer the impact of risk factors and outlines criteria that a variable should meet in order to be considered as conferring resilience By following inclusions criteria they have included 38 papers containing 46 studies in the review which provides evidence of the presence of factors which confer resilience to emotional distress in response to failure Included studies had a total of 5905 participants m sample size 128 37 SD 83 8 range 46 399 The mean age of participants ranged from 18 6 to 47 6 and the majority of studies were among undergraduate students with only one study conducted in a clinical population Most studies used in this review were experimental or longitudinal designs Results suggested that higher self esteem more positive attributional style and lower levels of socially prescribed perfectionism may confer resilience to emotional distress in response to failure and academic self worth and trait emotion suppression are not related with resilience The strongest support was found for the factors of higher self esteem more positive attributional style and lower socially prescribed perfectionism
