Resilience and spirituality. Contributions to study them from a psychological perspective

Currently, different authors have suggested that the concept of resilience is associated with spirituality, so that those who consider themselves spiritual could have resilient characteristics (Poseck, Baquero & Jiménez, 2006, Girard, 2007). However, there are few works that propose to perform a systematic review of the literature in relation to the link between both constructs. For this reason, the present work intends to carry out a bibliographic search in databases - SCIELO, LATINDEX, among others - in order to review critically the empirical findings reported by the different studies. It is concluded that, although the number of jobs in the area has increased in the last few years, it is still necessary to increase the amount of research, particularly in the Latin American context. At the same time, the definition and evaluation of spirituality has presented considerable difficulties, so it is still necessary to improve the tools available for its empirical investigation.