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Toward a Definition of Family Resilience: Integrating Life‐Span and Family Perspectives
Author(s) -
Hawley Dale R.,
DeHaan Laura
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1996.00283.x
Subject(s) - family resilience , psychology , resilience (materials science) , construct (python library) , life span , developmental psychology , psychological resilience , psychopathology , social psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , medicine , gerontology , physics , thermodynamics , programming language
Family resilience is a relatively new construct that describes how families adapt to stress and bounce back from adversity. Literature pertaining to resilience as a family‐level variable is reviewed. An overview of the developmental psychopathology literature dealing with individual resilience is also presented. Implications for extending the study of family resilience drawn from research on individual resilience are discussed and a definition of family resilience is proposed.