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Short‐Term Resilience Processes in the Family
Author(s) -
Bai Sunhye,
Repetti Rena L.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12101
Subject(s) - psychology , psychological resilience , developmental psychology , context (archaeology) , term (time) , social psychology , geography , physics , quantum mechanics , archaeology
The authors review naturalistic studies of short‐term processes that appear to promote resilience in children in the context of everyday family life and argue that warm and supportive family interactions foster resilience through their cumulative impact on children's emotional and physiological stress response systems. In the short‐term, these family interactions promote the experience and expression of positive emotion and healthy patterns of diurnal cortisol. Over time, these internal resources – a propensity to experience positive emotion and a well‐functioning hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal axis system – enhance a child's capacity to avoid, or limit, the deleterious effects of adversity. This article highlights naturalistic research methods that are well suited to the study of these short‐term resilience processes and points to clinical applications of our conceptual and methodological approach.