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| Psychological resilience: Psychological resilience is the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or return to pre-crisis status quickly. It involves adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or sources of stress. This trait varies widely among individuals. See also Psychological stress, Crises, Emotion, Neuroticism, Behavior, Problem solving._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Personality Psychology on Psychological Resilience - Dictionary of Arguments
Slater I 207 Resilience/personality psychology: Personality traits: Rutter (1987)(1) thesis: resilience is not a personality trait. (Cf. Cicchetti and Garmezy, 1993(2). Given that the same trait can function in different ways across people and situations and the life course, and given that development changes the capacity of a person to respond and adapt, the notion of a resiliency trait is untenable. >Resilience/psychological theories, >Resilience/Rutter. Slater I 211 The trait issue has resurfaced in the form of recent efforts to devise and market measures of resilience or “resiliency” (see Windle, Bennett, & Noyes, 2011(3), for a review) and also to conduct large-scale programs to promote individual resiliency. RutterVs: (Rutter, 1987(1)2006(4)) — along with other leading developmental scholars in the area — such efforts may be misguided. Resilience theory and the body of evidence on human resilience support the idea that resilience results from the interplay of many influences, the operation of multiple adaptive systems in concert, and ongoing interactions among complex systems within the person and between person and environment. It is conceivable in this dynamic systems view to promote resilience; however, this would require a very good understanding of individuals involved, the nature of the challenging situation, adaptive processes involved in meeting this kind of challenge, how to mobilize these processes, and important potential developmental and cultural influences on these various processes. Masten: (…) there is considerable risk in viewing the capacity for resilience in terms of individual traits. A child (or adult) who does not fare well is then set up for blame by others or the self. The victim is blamed for deficient “resiliency” when in fact there may have been overwhelming adversity and completely inadequate external support from family, community or the larger society to mitigate the threat, support adaptation, or promote recovery. 1. Rutter, M. (1987). Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms. American journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57, 316—331. 2. Cicchetti, D., & Garmezy, N. (199 3). Prospects and promises in the study of resilience. Development and Psychopathology, 5,497—502. 3. Windle, G., Bennett, K. M., & Noyes, J. (201 1). A methodological review of resilience measurement scales. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 9, 8. 4. Rutter, M. (2006). Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1094, 1—12. Ann S. Masten, “Resilience in Children. Vintage Rutter and Beyond”, in: Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn (eds.) 2012. Developmental Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Personalty Psychology Slater I Alan M. Slater Paul C. Quinn Developmental Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2012 |
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