Toward an Understanding of Resilience

Motivation and Personality

1997 • 16,378 citations

Human agency in social cognitive theory.

1989 • 6,789 citations

Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.

1987 • 5,588 citations

Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention.

1992 • 5,259 citations

Resilience in the Face of Adversity

1985 • 3,283 citations

Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

1979 • 3,058 citations

Overcoming the Odds

1992 • 2,810 citations

Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

1979 • 2,484 citations

Vulnerable but Invincible: A Longitudinal Study of Resilient Children and Youth

1989 • 2,481 citations

Protective factors in children's responses to stress and disadvantage.

1979 • 1,413 citations

The Role of Ego-Control and Ego-Resiliency in the Organization of Behavior

1980 • 1,370 citations

Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency

1950 • 1,354 citations

Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Psychopathology

1990 • 1,317 citations

High-risk children in young adulthood: A longitudinal study from birth to 32 years.

1989 • 1,139 citations

Risk, resilience, and recovery: Perspectives from the Kauai Longitudinal Study

1993 • 1,000 citations

Vulnerability and competence: A review of research on resilience in childhood.

1991 • 946 citations

Resilience as process

1993 • 893 citations

Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms

1990 • 889 citations

Beyond Adolescence: Problem Behaviour and Young Adult Development

1991 • 836 citations

Self-Esteem

1993 • 832 citations

Vulnerability and Resilience: A Study of High-Risk Adolescents

1991 • 807 citations

Behavioral Health: A Handbook of Health Enhancement and Disease Prevention

1985 • 793 citations

Resilience in individual development: Successful adaptation despite risk and adversity.

1994 • 718 citations

Handbook of Behavioral Medicine

1985 • 710 citations

The psychosocial etiology of adolescent drug use: a family interactional approach.

1990 • 684 citations

Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health

1959 • 589 citations

Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency

1951 • 581 citations

Vulnerability and Resilience: A Study of High-Risk Adolescents

1991 • 578 citations

Developmental pathways in disruptive child behavior

1993 • 575 citations

Recent research in developmental psychopathology

1985 • 563 citations

Vulnerability to drug abuse.

1992 • 548 citations

Behavioral Health: A Handbook of Health Enhancement and Disease Prevention

1984 • 502 citations

Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Research on Childhood Resilience

1993 • 486 citations

Beyond adolescence: problem behavior and young adult development

1992 • 472 citations

The Invulnerable Child.

1987 • 470 citations

The Resiliency Model

1990 • 412 citations

Stress and Mental Health

1994 • 407 citations

Prospects and promises in the study of resilience

1993 • 398 citations

Educational Resilience in inner-city America

2012 • 394 citations

A Prospective Study of Life Stress, Social Support, and Adaptation in Early Adolescence

1992 • 379 citations

Stress, competence, and development: Continuities in the study of schizophrenic adults, children vulnerable to psychopathology, and the search for stress-resistant children.

1987 • 372 citations

The Handbook of Behavioral Medicine

2014 • 345 citations

Resilience is not a unidimensional construct: Insights from a prospective study of inner-city adolescents

1993 • 311 citations

Early Indications of Resilience and Their Relation to Experiences in the Home Environments of Low Birthweight, Premature Children Living in Poverty

1994 • 301 citations

Stress-resistant families and stress-resistant children

1990 • 301 citations

Development of cognition, affect, and social relations

1980 • 284 citations

Educational resilience in inner cities.

1994 • 284 citations

Hardiness: A review of theory and research.

1992 • 254 citations

The role of children's future expectations in self-system functioning and adjustment to life stress: A prospective study of urban at-risk children

1993 • 246 citations

A Prospective Study of Life Stress, Social Support, and Adaptation in Early Adolescence

1992 • 239 citations

Prevention of delinquent behavior

1987 • 234 citations

Intrinsic religiousness and religious coping as life stress moderators for Catholics versus Protestants.

1990 • 231 citations

Life crises and personal growth.

1992 • 229 citations

Conjunctive moderator variables in vulnerability and resiliency research: Life stress, social support and coping skills, and adolescent sport injuries.

1990 • 229 citations

The double edge of protective and risk factors for delinquency: Interrelations and developmental patterns

1993 • 226 citations

Vulnerability and resilience.

1993 • 216 citations

Impact of perceived self-efficacy in coping with stressors on components of the immune system.

1990 • 216 citations

Factors Protecting Children Living in Disharmonious Homes: Maternal Reports

1990 • 208 citations

Risk, vulnerability, and resilience: An overview.

1987 • 200 citations

Resilience and levels of reserve capacity in later adulthood: Perspectives from life-span theory

1993 • 197 citations

Social support and immune function among spouses of cancer patients.

1990 • 193 citations

Motivation and personality

2020 • 192 citations

Hardiness: A review of theory and research.

1992 • 192 citations

Hardiness and stress moderation: A test of proposed mechanisms.

1991 • 189 citations

Stability of self-esteem as a moderator of the relation between level of self-esteem and depression.

1991 • 189 citations

Transitions in drug use: Risk and protective factors.

1992 • 189 citations

Early Indications of Resilience and Their Relation to Experiences in the Home Environments of Low Birthweight, Premature Children Living in Poverty

1994 • 186 citations

Personality-based hardiness as a buffer for discrimination-related stress in members of Toronto's Chinese community.

1992 • 180 citations

Impact of perceived self-efficacy in coping with stressors on components of the immune system.

1990 • 178 citations

The Sense of Coherence as a Determinant of Health

1993 • 174 citations

Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health

1959 • 170 citations

Competence under stress: risk and protective factors

1990 • 168 citations

Conjunctive moderator variables in vulnerability and resiliency research: Life stress, social support and coping skills, and adolescent sport injuries.

1990 • 168 citations

Adjustment of Children Born to Teenage Mothers: The Contribution of Risk and Protective Factors

1990 • 163 citations

Suicidal behavior in "normal" adolescents: Risk and protective factors.

1989 • 161 citations

Intrinsic religiousness and religious coping as life stress moderators for Catholics versus Protestants.

1990 • 161 citations

Low Self-Esteem: The Uphill Struggle for Self-Integrity

1993 • 161 citations

Social support and immune function among spouses of cancer patients.

1990 • 151 citations

Resilience and vulnerability in children of multiple-risk families

1993 • 150 citations

Risk Factors for Behavioral and Emotional Disorder in Preadolescent Children

1990 • 147 citations

Hard growing: children who survive

1990 • 145 citations

Coping processes as mediators of the relationship between hardiness and health

1992 • 141 citations

Protective personality characteristics among adolescent victims of maltreatment

1992 • 140 citations

Stability of self-esteem as a moderator of the relation between level of self-esteem and depression.

1991 • 139 citations

Staying fit and staying well: Physical fitness as a moderator of life stress.

1991 • 123 citations

Postpartum depression and child development: An investigation of mothers and fathers as sources of risk and resilience

1993 • 122 citations

Personality hardiness, occupational stress, and burnout in critical care nurses

1989 • 118 citations

Risk and resilience in young adolescents

1992 • 117 citations

Protective and resource factors in highand low-risk children: A comparison of children with unipolar, bipolar, medically ill, and normal mothers

1993 • 114 citations

Contextual risk and resiliency during late adolescence

1993 • 112 citations

Normality: Theoretical and Clinical Concepts of Mental Health.

1967 • 111 citations

Resilience: Discovering a New Strength at Times of Stress

1989 • 109 citations

Adversity, resilience, and the study of lives.

1987 • 107 citations

Children at risk: Assessment, longitudinal research, and intervention

1994 • 105 citations

Introduction and Review of the Literature

1985 • 105 citations

Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior.

1988 • 104 citations

Life stress, social support, and locus of control during early adolescence: Interactive effects

1992 • 98 citations

Staying fit and staying well: Physical fitness as a moderator of life stress.

1991 • 96 citations

Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior

1986 • 88 citations

Preventing Drug Abuse

1993 • 88 citations

The Relationship of Hardiness, Gender, and Stress to Health Outcomes in Adolescents

1991 • 86 citations

Self-efficacy among urban African American early adolescents: Exploring issues of risk, vulnerability, and resilience

1993 • 80 citations

Drugs, crime, and other deviant adaptations : longitudinal studies

1995 • 80 citations

A developmental psychopathology model of drug abuse vulnerability.

1992 • 77 citations

Beyond diathesis: toward an understanding of high-risk environments

1990 • 77 citations

Children at Risk

1989 • 74 citations

Parenting quality, adversity, and conduct problems in adolescence: Testing process-oriented models of resilience

1993 • 73 citations

Vulnerability and resiliency in children at risk for delinquency: A longitudinal study from birth to young adulthood.

1987 • 70 citations

Parental and family predictors of behavior problems in inner‐city black children

1992 • 68 citations

The role of risk and protective factors in predicting symptomatology in adolescent self‐identified children of alcoholic parents

1990 • 67 citations

Interrole conflict, family support and marital adjustment of employed mothers: A short term, longitudinal study

1988 • 63 citations

Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use among Latino and White Adolescents

1992 • 63 citations

Multiple determinants of risk and invulnerability.

1987 • 57 citations

Drugs, Crime, and Other Deviant Adaptations

1995 • 54 citations

A closing note: Reflections on the future

1990 • 50 citations

Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds

1991 • 49 citations

The influence of hardiness on the relationship between stressors and psychosomatic symptomatology

1988 • 49 citations

Vulnerability and Resiliency: A Longitudinal Perspective

1989 • 46 citations

Academic Performance in Children of Divorce: Psychological Resilience and Vulnerability

1991 • 46 citations

On the Concept of "Invulnerability": Evaluation and First Results of the Bielefeld Project

1989 • 44 citations

Adult Vulnerability for Psychiatric Disorders

1991 • 43 citations

Recent advances in addictive disorders. Prevention. Current research and trends.

1993 • 43 citations

Further reflections on resilience.

1987 • 39 citations

Predicting Vulnerability to Hopelessness

1991 • 38 citations

The Disaggregation of Vulnerability to Depression as a Function of the Determinants of Onset and Recurrence

1994 • 38 citations

Risk, Protection, and Vulnerability to Adolescent Drug Use: Latent-Variable Models of Three Age Groups

1994 • 36 citations

The Americanization of resilience: Deconstructing research practice.

1994 • 32 citations

Hardiness, Type A Behavior, and Physical Symptoms in a Japanese Sample

1990 • 32 citations

Longitudinal Studies of Children at Psychological Risk: Cross-National Perspectives

1992 • 31 citations

Vulnerability and resilience in the age of eating disorders: risk and protective factors for bulimia nervosa

1990 • 29 citations

The meaning of risk and protective factors in infancy

1989 • 28 citations

Disordered Eating among Adolescents Whose Parents Misuse Alcohol: Protective and Risk Factors

1994 • 22 citations

Ego Defenses and the Legitimation of Behavior

1988 • 19 citations

Mothers' Experience of Stress Following the Birth of a First Child: Identification of Stressors and Coping Resources¹

1992 • 17 citations

The High-Risk Paradigm in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research

1988 • 17 citations

Personal Resourcefulness: Positive Aspects of Functioning in High-Risk Research

1993 • 13 citations

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1955 • 0 citations