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Resilience and development: Contributions from the study of children who overcome adversity

Masten, Ann S., Best, Karin M., Garmezy, Norman·1990·Development and Psychopathology
DOI 10.1017/s0954579400005812
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This article reviews the research on resilience in order to delineate its significance and potential for understanding normal development. Resilience refers to the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances. Three resilience phenomena are reviewed: (a) good outcomes in high-risk children, (b) sustained competence in children under stress, and (c) recovery from trauma. It is concluded that human psychological development is highly buffered and that long-lasting consequences of adversity usually are associated with either organic damage or severe interference in the normative protective processes embedded in the caregiving system. Children who experience chronic adversity fare better or recover more successfully when they have a positive relationship with a competent adult, they are good learners and problem-solvers, they are engaging to other people, and they have areas of competence and perceived efficacy valued by self or society. Future studies of resilience will need to focus on processes that facilitate adaptation. Such studies have the potential to illuminate the range and self-righting properties of, constraints on, and linkages among different aspects of cognitive, emotional, and social development.

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Authors
Masten, A. S., Best, K. M., & Garmezy, N.
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1990-10
Volume
2
Issue
4
Pages
425-444
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
DOI
10.1017/s0954579400005812
OpenAlex
W2126400437
Cited by
3,360
References
5
FWCI
13.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 6605 d)

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