Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused mental health effects, and it is necessary to study how to deal with them. This study aimed to explain resilience levels, based on family coping and work-life balance in Latin America. This was a cross-sectional, quantitative, and correlational study with 8043 participants from seven countries, who were contacted through nonprobabilistic sampling of available subjects. The Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales, the Wagnild and Young resilience scale and the work-personal life questionnaire were applied. Reframing and passive appraisal contributed the most to explaining resilience in all countries. The country with the participants with the highest average in resilience was Chile and the lowest was Perú. Problem-focused coping strategies are positively related to resilience. It is suggested to include reframing and ways to achieve social support, such as coping strategies, in the design of public health and social welfare interventions aimed at generating family resilience. © The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).