Expanding the Science of Resilience: Conserving Resources in the Aid of Adaptation

Resilience in Context: A Brief and Culturally Grounded Measure for Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Host‐Community Adolescents

“…Contextually relevant, validated resilience measures are necessary to meet the call of researchers who argue that the next wave of resilience research needs to be more systematic, thoughtful, scalable, integrated, culturally relevant, temporally explicit, and policy applicable (Ager, ; Bonanno et al., , ; Hobfoll et al., ; Masten, ; Panter‐Brick, ; Ungar et al., ). Moreover, valid and reliable measures of resilience are needed to complement research on the underlying constructs of psychosocial distress for children living in areas affected by conflict (Betancourt, Meyers‐Ohki, et al., ; Jordans et al., ; Panter‐Brick, ).…”

“…The R2HC programme is funded equally by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Government. psychopathology (Betancourt, Frounfelker, Mishra, Hussein, & Falzarano, 2015;Betancourt et al, 2010;Hobfoll, Stevens, & Zalta, 2015;Hobfoll et al, 2012;Rutter, 2013). To date, the resilience literature suggests that a useful measure of resilience will be one that situates itself within a socioecological framework (Betancourt, 2012;Masten, 2014;Tol, Song, & Jordans, 2013), capturing variation rooted in individual, relational, and contextual factors (Ungar, 2008(Ungar, , 2013.…”

Exploring resilience models in a sample of combat-exposed military service members and veterans: a comparison and commentary

“…This adds to the ongoing debate over different approaches to resilience: those that capture stable functioning or those that can include ongoing symptoms and distress (see discussion in Southwick et al, 2014). This perspective may be particularly relevant in highly trauma-exposed populations and may be considered in the context of Hobfoll, Stevens, & Zalta (2015) discussion of ‘resistance to breakdown’, described as a specific attribute of resilience, wherein individuals may be relatively unharmed up to a point, but then experience an event that renders them no longer able to respond positively (i.e. the straw that breaks the camel’s back effect).…”

“…Measuring these trauma characteristics will be important in future research. As the sample was cross-sectional, our analysis did not take into account the concept of ‘relative resistance’ (see commentary by Hobfoll, Stevens, & Zalta, 2015), in that we are not able to separate out current symptoms and distress from pre-existing, pre-trauma levels of distress and functioning, nor were we able to examine causality. Longitudinal investigations designed to separate pre-existing, chronic, and new-onset conditions will be informative.…”

“…It is being increasingly recognized that competence in one domain does not preclude difficulties in other domains of functioning (Luthar, Doernberger, & Zigler, 1993; Masten, 2014; Southwick et al, 2014). It has also been suggested that resilience should be further separated into different facets (Hobfoll et al, 2015). Our findings support the benefits of systems-oriented approaches which view resilience as dynamic and expected to vary based on outcome of interest, over time, and across different contexts.…”