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This chapter provides an overview of key resilience concepts, controversies, and perspectives. It delineates a variety of types of research models that examine resilience processes over time, including person-focused, variable-focused, and hybrid models focused on understanding developmental pathways and trajectories. The importance of qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding the human capacity for adaptive responses to challenges is emphasized. Resilience is conceptualized within a dynamic, embedded, ecological systems framework, encompassing interactions across multiple levels, from genes, to person, family, community, and cultural group. The importance of a life-span ecologically informed perspective is illustrated through highlights from the past half century of research on diverse pathways to resilience.
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Wright, M.O., Masten, A.S. (2015). Pathways to Resilience in Context. In: Theron, L., Liebenberg, L., Ungar, M. (eds) Youth Resilience and Culture. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9415-2_1
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