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Resilience in Adulthood : How Does the Social Environment Facilitate Adjustment and Growth Following Adversity?

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Igarashi, Heidi

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This study contributes to our understanding of positive adult development by examining resilience processes in adulthood. Resilience is often considered to be an individual-level trait. However, the child development literature has consistently shown that support from parents and caring others is a critical component of resilience. Less is known about...

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& Calhoun, 1995) is a phenomenon of positive change that goes beyond pre-incident levels following a
Longitudinal changes in stress-related growth : relations with stress severity and depressive symptoms

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Bi, Xiaoyu

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Studies on the positive effects of stress, called stress-related growth (SRG), are increasing, and there are a variety of contradictory theoretical models and findings in the literature. This dissertation compared several of these models in two studies, using two waves of data from the Davis Longitudinal Study, a study of...

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stressful experiences as well (Aldwin & Stokols, 1988; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1995). Since then, a growing
The Effects of War Stressors and Psychosocial Factors on Mental Health among Korean Vietnam War Veterans

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Lee, Hyunyup

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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the effects of war stressors and psychosocial factors on negative and positive mental health outcomes among Korean Vietnam War veterans. The sample consisted of 367 male veterans who completed a self-reported survey conducted in 2017 (Mage = 72, SD = 2.66, range...

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veterans. The sample consisted of 367 male veterans who completed a self-reported survey conducted in