Table 1.

Exploratory Resilience in Illness Model (RIM) Latent Variables and Definitions

Illness-related Distress (Risk)	The degree of illness-related uncertainty and disease and symptom-related distress perceived by the AYA.
Social Integration (Protective)	The degree to which the AYA perceives a sense of connectedness with and support from friends and health care providers in the midst of having cancer.
Family Environment (Protective)	The degree to which the AYA perceives the family as adaptable, cohesive, effectively communicating, and having family strengths.
Defensive Coping (Risk)	The degree to which the AYA uses evasive and emotive coping strategies to deal with the cancer experience.
Courageous Coping (Protective)	The degree to which the AYA uses confrontive, optimistic, and supportant coping strategies to deal with the cancer experience.
Derived Meaning (Protective)	The degree to which the AYA uses hope and spiritual perspective to derive meaning from the cancer experience.
Resilience (Process and Outcome)	The process of identifying or developing resources and strengths to flexibly manage stressors to gain a positive outcome, a sense of confidence/mastery, self-transcendence, and self-esteem.