Developing A Model of Iranian Family Resilience: A Qualitative Research

Family faces different hardships and challenges that are such stressful that can destroy it. No doubt that we need to protect and last family. So, this research aims at developing a local model for family resilience.

To do so, at primer level 13 couples who qualified the criteria, were selected through purpose-focused, available, and voluntary sampling method. In order to identify local elements of family resilience the families experienced a crisis in their marriage, and obtained high scores in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD- RISC), Sixbey Family Resilience Surrey (SFRS), and Family Assessment Device (FAD) were voluntarily interviewed. Qualitative Grounded method was used to collect information.

In analyzing transcripts of interviews with couples, 168 and 15 categories were obtained respectively from open coding and axial coding based on topic similarity. As a result, a model of family resilience was constructed including 5 dimensions: Personality, Belief System, Skills, Family Structure, and Social Resource.

The developed Iranian model is integrative, and it can be used for designing interventions to increase family resilience and patience toward problems.