TAP reading note: Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives
A multidisciplinary discussion presents resilience as functioning and adaptation over time in the context of adversity. It highlights influences at individual, family, community and cultural levels.
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What the study found
A multidisciplinary discussion presents resilience as functioning and adaptation over time in the context of adversity. It highlights influences at individual, family, community and cultural levels.
Scope & limitations
Expert perspectives from psychology, psychiatry, developmental science and social context research; not a single empirical sample.
Definitions vary across disciplines and levels of analysis. Interpreting adaptation requires considering demands and resources in individual, family, community and cultural contexts.
Population & sample
Expert perspectives from psychology, psychiatry, developmental science and social context research; not a single empirical sample.
Exposure or intervention
Definitions, determinants, technologies and possible ways to support resilience.
Outcomes
Adaptive functioning after adversity across biological, psychological and social contexts.
Time frame
Discussion informed by a 2013 scientific meeting, published in 2014; time horizons vary by context.
Research funding
George Bonanno’s work was supported by NIMH grant R01MH091034.
Research conflicts of interest
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
Reading scope
Based on the publication’s text, including Definitions, multilevel context, discussion and conflict/funding statement.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0029 · v0.2 · English
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