• DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-3661-4_2
• Corpus ID: 14015141

Resilience Processes in Development: Four Waves of Research on Positive Adaptation in the Context of Adversity

@article{Wright2013ResiliencePI,
  title={Resilience Processes in Development: Four Waves of Research on Positive Adaptation in the Context of Adversity},
  author={Margaret O’Dougherty Wright and Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan},
  journal={Springer US},
  year={2013},
  pages={15-37}
}

• M. O. Wright, A. Masten, Angela J. Narayan
• Published 2013
• Psychology
• Springer US

How do children and adolescents “make it” when their development is threatened by poverty, neglect, maltreatment, war, violence, or exposure to oppression, racism, and discrimination? What protects them when their parents are disabled by substance abuse, mental illness, or serious physical illness? How do we explain the phenomenon of resilience—children succeeding in spite of serious challenges to their development—and put this knowledge to work for the benefit of children and society? The scientific study of resilience emerged around 1970 when a group of pioneering researchers began to notice the phenomenon of positive adaptation among subgroups of children who were considered “at risk” for developing later psychopathology (Masten, 2001, 2012).