A look to the construct of resistant personality

Abstract

Surely we are more familiar with the types of personality introverted, extroverted, intuitive, pacifying, dependent, affable, type A, among others. However, are reduced the investigations about the personality resistant, a construct used quite extensively in the approach to the psychology of the health and social psychology, by its conception as a process of interaction where the individual participates actively in interaction with environmental variables and social, having even modulating effects on the health of the individual (Moreno-Jiménez, Garrosa and Gálvez, 2005). The present article intends to contextualize, broaden and deepen the resistant personality construct, being that in the last ten years it has become more relevant in research and publication especially from the area of health psychology (Moreno-Jiménez, Garrosa-Hernández and González-Gutiérrez 2000, Ríos, Sánchez and Godoy 2010, Fernández-Lansac and Crespo 2011, Sagués, 2015).