Resilience: A silver lining to experiencing adverse life events?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 390-394

  Seery, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

cumulative lifetime adversity; mental health and well being; pain; resilience; stress inoculation; toughening

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755170642     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411424740     Document Type: Review

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