“…It is easy to invoke numerous studies in which a clinical/health outcome is predicted from numerous psychosocial factors which are classified as either risk or protective factors (e.g., Kilmer, Cook, Munsell, & Salvador, 2010;Krzysztof & Zimmerman, 2006;Laser, Laster, & Oshio, 2007;Lewis, Phillip, Bowser, DeLuca, & Rosen, 2009;Siefert, Finlayson, Williams, Delva, & Ismail, 2007;Tinsley, Nussbaum, & Richards, 2007), including our own (Kidd & Shahar, 2008;Schatner, Shahar, Lerman, & Abu-Shakra, 2010). Rarely do these kinds of studies consider the possibility that a construct might actually serve as both a risk factor and a resilience factor.…”