• Michał Ziarko, Ewa Mojs, Dorota Sikorska, and Włodzimierz Samborski.
• Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland.
• Med Princ Pract. 2020 Jan 1; 29 (2): 160-165.

ObjectiveEgo-resiliency is attributed the status of a "meta resource" that is responsible for a flexible selection of coping strategies depending on the requirements of a specific difficult situation. A considerably burdensome critical life event is the development of a chronic illness such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Apart from coping with the symptoms, a fundamental task confronting patients is maintaining their quality of life. This raises the question of whether ego-resiliency serves as a mediator between coping strategies and quality of life.Materials And Methods210 RA patients were invited to participate in this study. They were requested to complete a questionnaire that included the Satisfaction with Life scale, the stress coping inventory Mini-COPE, and the Ego-Resiliency scale. The collected data were analyzed by a simple mediation procedure and estimation of simple correlation coefficients.ResultsThe analysis demonstrated that ego-resiliency (r = 0.46; p < 0.001) and emotion-focused coping (r = 0.39; p < 0.001) determined life satisfaction. Additionally, ego-resiliency mediated the relation between emotion-oriented coping strategies and life satisfaction. Partial mediation was observed (a = 0.45**; b = 0.36**; c = 0.39**; c' =0.22**; R2 = 0.24; F = 35.65; p < 0.001).ConclusionOur observations partly support the assumption about a controlling role of ego-resiliency in the process of selecting coping strategies according to demands of situations.© 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.

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