Resilience to Major Life Stressors Is Not as Common as Thought.

ABSTRACT: We attempted to replicate findings that "most people are resilient" following three events: spousal loss, divorce, and unemployment. We applied growth mixture models to the same longitudinal data set that has previously been used to assert that resilience is ubiquitous. When using identical model specifications, as in prior studies, we found that resilient trajectories were most common, but the number of trajectories identified was different. When we relaxed two assumptions used in prior studies-that (a) all classes have similar variability in levels of postadversity adjustment and (b) there is no variability in changes within classes-we found that a resilience class was least common. Methodologically, our results show how findings on trajectories of change following major life stressors c

SUBMITTER: Infurna FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4800830 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature