Research, part of a Special Feature on Managing Surprises in Complex Systems Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development

By A. Masten, J. Obradović. 2008

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Four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory, resilience following disaster could take multiple forms, including stress resistance, recovery, and positive transformation. Empirical findings suggest that fundamental adaptive systems play a key role in the resilience of young people facing diverse threats, including attachment, agency, intelligence, behavior regulation systems, and social interactions with family, peers, school, and community systems. Although human resilience research emphasizes the adaptive well-being of particular individuals, there are striking parallels in resilience theory across the developmental and ecological sciences. Preparing societies for major disasters calls for the integration of human research on resilience with the theory and knowledge gained from other disciplines concerned with resilience in complex, dynamic systems, and particularly those systems that interact with human individuals as disaster unfolds.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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The conjoint community resiliency assessment measure as a baseline for profiling and predicting community resilience for emergencies (2013, background): “In the past, studies of these paradigms, linked to resiliency, focused mainly on the individual, whereas now additional benefits at the community level are being examined [2,17,18].”
Resilience in developing systems: the promise of integrated approaches (2016, background): “In human resilience science, theoretical pathways of resilience have been depicted by the present author in regard to children (e.g., Masten & Narayan, 2012; Masten & Obradović, 2008; Masten & Reed, 2002) and by Bonanno focusing on adults (Bonanno, 2004; Bonanno & Diminich, 2013).”
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Parents and Youth After Health-Related Disasters (2013, background): “Relational functioning among family, community, and peers influences individual resilience,(9) and the inhibition or interruption of such functioning may both diminish individual and family resilience and increase the potential for adverse reactions.(10) As Masten and Obradovic wrote about pandemic ”
Promoting Competence and Resilience in the School Context (2008, background): “In addition to the life of a single human organism, however, the idea of resilience can be applied to many other kinds and levels of systems (Masten & Obradović, 2007).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “Hence, it can be seen as an example of codevelopment of the resilience theory in the context of socio-ecological systems (SES’s) [508, 509, 510].”
Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience (2012, background): “In so doing, I hope to contribute to the literature connecting individual resilience to the adaptive functioning of larger social systems and networks, such as neighborhoods or socio-cultural systems (Masten and Obradovic 2008).”