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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

Creator:

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