Empowering Psychological Resilience: Evaluation of Training

Abstract

Psychological resilience is a positive psychological adaptation in times of challenges and crises. Many training programmes focus on psychological resilience. The training programme “Manual: Step by step from trainees to trainers and supporters in student peer support network” is developed within the project “Enhancing digital and psychological resilience through peer networking in the online environment in times of crisis”. The sub-programme A focused on psychological resilience, well-being, stress, and social support. The paper presents this sub-programme and discusses the programme structure. The subprogramme A was realized as hybrid and on-site and in four languages (English, Italian, Polish, and Serbian). The main goal is to evaluate the A sub-programme realization. The programme evaluative questionnaire was developed. The comparison of the sub-programme realization in English as a medium of instruction (80 trainees in the international pilot training realized at three universities, the sub-programme evaluated by 32 trainees) and Serbian as a medium of instruction (37 trainees in the national training realized in two groups, the sub-programme evaluated by 31 trainees) is presented. Trainees from both groups evaluated the A sub-programme with high grades; however, trainees trained in Serbian evaluated the A sub-programme higher (trainees in English: M=4.40; trainees in Serbian: M=4.82). Trainees rated the A sub-programme's particular aspects as highly useful to develop skills for peer support and recommended it to other students/ participants.