Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity -Trajectories of minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience
By G. Bonanno, Erica D. Diminich. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2012
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Background Research on resilience in the aftermath of potentially traumatic life events is still evolving. For decades researchers have documented resilience in children exposed to corrosive early environments, such as poverty or chronic maltreatment. Relatively more recently the study of resilience has migrated to the investigation of isolated and potentially traumatic life events (PTE) in adults. Methods In this article we first consider some of the key differences in the conceptualization of resilience following chronic adversity versus resilience following single-incident traumas, and then describe some of the misunderstandings that have developed about these constructs. To organize our discussion we introduce the terms emergent resilience and minimal-impact resilience to represent trajectories positive adjustment in these two domains, respectively. Results We focused in particular on minimal-impact resilience, and reviewed recent advances in statistical modeling of latent trajectories that have informed the most recent research on minimal-impact resilience in both children and adults and the variables that predict it, including demographic variables, exposure, past and current stressors, resources, personality, positive emotion, coping and appraisal, and flexibility in coping and emotion regulation. Conclusions The research on minimal impact resilience is nascent. Further research is warranted with implications for a multiple levels of analysis approach to elucidate the processes that may mitigate or modify the impact of a PTE at different developmental stages.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology
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- How Much Do We Really Know About Employee Resilience? (2016, background): “Bonanno and Diminich (2013) recently referred to the latter trajectory as “emergent resilience,” reflecting a return to normal functioning after going through sustained stressful conditions.”
- Fixing the Growth Illusion: New Directions for Research in Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth (2019, background): “Multiple studies have suggested that resilience is the most likely pathway following adversity (Bonanno & Diminich, 2013); a recent review by Infurna and Luthar (2018) reevaluated the resilience literature on the basis of the issues described below, concluding that resilience is not as common as…”
- Workplace team resilience: A systematic review and conceptual development (2020, background): “…there is a substantial number of reviews that have critically reviewed the resilience construct within various disciplines (e.g., Aburn et al., 2016; Ahern et al., 2006; Bonanno & Diminich, 2013; Vanhove et al., 2016), workplace resilience has played a minor role in previously published reviews.”
- A CRITICAL REVIEW OF RESILIENCE THEORY AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR SOCIAL WORK (2018, background): “Acute adversity, by contrast, has a defined starting point, a relatively brief duration and a limited impact on the whole of life, within a generally well-functioning life context, and may include an accident or assault (Bonanno & Diminich, 2013).”
- Psychological resilience in sport: A review of the literature and implications for research and practice (2015, methodology): “Studies adopting these criteria are necessary in order to truly understand the nature of resilience, as well as other possible response trajectories to adversity in sport (e.g. resistance, recovery, and growth; see Bonanno & Diminich, 2013).”
- More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science (2018, background): “Here we briefly highlight known moderators of the stress—health relationship because a careful characterization of vulnerability and resilience processes is beyond the scope of this article, covered elsewhere (Bonanno and Diminich, 2013; Southwick et al., 2005).”
- Pathways to Integrated Resilience Science (2015, background): “Theoretical pathway models of resilience have been proposed over the years by Bonanno and colleagues (Bonanno, 2004; Bonanno et al., 2015; Bonanno & Diminich, 2013), as well as my collaborators and I (e.g., Masten & Cicchetti, in press; Masten & Narayan, 2012; Masten & Obradovi c, 2008; Masten &…”
- Global perspectives on resilience in children and youth. (2014, background): “…adversity level, often illustrating stress-resistance, a pattern with little or minor disturbance of function in response to an adverse experience (Bonanno & Diminich, 2013, term this pattern “minimal-impact resilience”), breakdown and recovery of function in response to a sudden overwhelming…”
- The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities (2015, methodology): “A number of researchers have proposed sequential models to help understand resilience to trauma, disaster, and other forms of adversity (Bonanno, 2004, 2005; Bonanno & Diminich, 2013; Carver, 1998; Cutter et al., 2008; Masten & Narayan, 2012; Norris et al., 2008).”
- Stressing the relevance of resilience: a systematic review of resilience across the domains of sport and work (2017, background): “…portrayal of resilience offers two outcomes, whereby the individuals can maintain functioning (minimal impact resilience, cf. robust resilience; Bonanno & Diminich, 2013; Fletcher & Sarkar, 2016) or rebound through learned facilitative adaptations (emergent resilience; Bonanno & Diminich,…”