Trauma, PTSD, and Resilience: A Review of the Literature
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Based on the available literature, this review article investigates the issue of resilience in relation to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Resilient coping to extreme stress and trauma is a multifaceted phenomena characterized as a complex repertoire of behavioral tendencies. An integrative Person × Situation model is developed based on the literature that specifies the nature of interactions among five classes of variables: (a) personality, (b) affect regulation, (c) coping, (d) ego defenses, and (e) the utilization and mobilization of protective factors and resources to aid coping.
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Resilience can reduce pathogenic reactions after suffering from traumatic events.
“This relationship indicates that resilience can reduce pathogenic reactions after suffering from traumatic events, which coincides with the model built by Agaibi and Wilson (2005).”
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- Authors
- Agaibi, C. E., & Wilson, J. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Akron (US)
- Cleveland State University (US)
- ORCID
- Wilson, John P.
- Venue
- Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 195-216
- ISSN
- 1524-8380 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8324
- OpenAlex
- W2122191790
- Cited by
- 662
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 32
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trauma Violence & Abuse (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- resilience, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, coping, emotion regulation, defense mechanisms, protective factors, person-situation interaction, personality, stress
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Attitude to Health, Child, Defense Mechanisms, Humans, Life Change Events, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Wounds and Injuries, Survivors
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