Abstract
Resilience, a psychological construct, has been defined differently in extant theoretical writings. Luthar et al.
A shorter version of the contents of this chapter was published in Demographic Research 23(5) 105–116. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.5
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For those died: survival time = (year of death-2002) + (month of death − month of the 2002 survey)/12; For those censored: survival time = (2005–2002) + (month of the 2005 survey − month of the 2002 survey).
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We only considered 11,938 cases with complete information on seven resilience indicators to examine the psychometric properties.
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Shen, K., Zeng, Y. (2011). The Association Between Resilience and Survival Among Chinese Elderly. In: Resnick, B., Gwyther, L., Roberto, K. (eds) Resilience in Aging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0232-0_14
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