Annual research review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development?

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 348-366

  Ungar, Michael ^a   Ghazinour, Mehdi ^b   Richter, Jörg ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

adversity; context; culture; differential impact; equifinality; human ecology; multisystemic; positive development; Resilience; risk; social ecology; stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 84875315200     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12025     Document Type: Review

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