Loss, trauma, and human resilience: have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events?

By G. Bonanno. American Psychologist, 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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Employee Resilience and OCB: Mediating Effects of Organizational Commitment (2016, background): “Bonanno (2004) maintained that resilience could be developed through behavioural training.”
Resilience Under Military Operational Stress: Can Leaders Influence Hardiness? (2006, background): “However, a point that is often neglected in studies of this kind is that most exposed individuals appear to respond with remarkable resiliency to stress, and this includes very severe or traumatic stress (Bonanno, 2004).”
Resilience and adaptation to stress in later life: Empirical perspectives and conceptual implications (2004, background): “such as developmental transitions, rhythms, and even instabilities are now seen as important characteristics of healthy systems (Bonanno, 2004; Nesselroade & Featherman, 1997).”
Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework (2013, background): “The concept of resilience has developed in different schools of thought, such as ecology (e.g. Holling 1973), psychology (e.g. Bonanno et al. 2006; Bonanno 2008), social-ecological systems research (e.g. Berkes et al. 2003; Folke 2006) and critical infrastructures (e.g. Boin and McConnell 2007).”
Developing the Psychological Capital of Resiliency (2006, background): “Although resiliency has traditionally been portrayed as trait-like and therefore relatively fixed (you either have it or you do not; see Block, 1961), there is increasing evidence that it is in fact developable (Bonanno, 2004; Masten, 1994,2001; Masten & Reed, 2002; Youssef & Luthans, 2005).”
Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity -Trajectories of minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience (2012, neutral): “Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2012 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. the existence of delayed trauma reactions has also been called into question (Bryant & Harvey, 2002).”
Resilience Portfolios and Poly-Strengths: Identifying Protective Factors Associated With Thriving After Adversity (2017, background): “The final element is the mechanism(s) by which the usual distress is avoided or recovered from—the protective factor or strength that allows one to rebound from an adversity (for further discussions of the concept of resilience, see Bonanno, 2004; Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000; Masten, 2001).”
Adolescent resilience: a framework for understanding healthy development in the face of risk. (2005, neutral): “Adversities facing youth can range from long-term chronic stressors to shortterm acute stressors, or to traumatic stressful events (8, 83, 108).”
Resilience and mental health. (2010, neutral): “Only recently has the possibility of an immunity model been accepted in relation to mental well-being, but in terms of resilience (Bonanno, 2004), meaning more than simply the absence of disorder.”
Cultivating a resilient top management team: The importance of relational connections and strategic decision comprehensiveness (2013, background): “…a capacity for positive response and healing capabilities from setbacks has also attracted considerable research attention in health and psychology (Bonanno, 2004; Fergus and Zimmerman, 2005; Flach, 1997), and organization and management studies (Dutton et al., 2006; Lilius et al., 2011; Powley,…”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “However, most trauma survivors manifest resilient adaptation (Bonanno, 2004; Kahana, 1992; Shmotkin, 2003).”
Organizational resilience: Towards a theory and research agenda (2007, neutral): “Scholars of individual-level resilience have argued that a resilient system is an optimistic system laden with positive emotion (e.g., Bonanno, 2004).”
Motivational dynamics in language learning (2015, background): “That is, some individuals are able to sustain normal functioning in situations of extreme stress, significant threat, severe adversity and trauma (Cicchetti, 2010), and can actually thrive after these aversive events (Bonanno, 2004).”
Development of a new resilience scale: the resilience in midlife scale (RIM scale) (2009, background): “The general theme in both clinical and positive psychology is that while resilience has traditionally been portrayed as dispositional and trait-like (Robins, John, Caspi, Moffitt & Southamer-Loeber, 1996; Wagnild & Young, 1993), there is mounting evidence that it is also open to development and stat”