Psychological resilience, positive emotions, and successful adaptation to stress in later life.
University of Notre Dame · University of New Hampshire · +1 more institution
Abstract
In 3 studies, the authors investigated the functional role of psychological resilience and positive emotions in the stress process. Studies 1a and 1b explored naturally occurring daily stressors. Study 2 examined data from a sample of recently bereaved widows. Across studies, multilevel random coefficient modeling analyses revealed that the occurrence of daily positive emotions serves to moderate stress reactivity and mediate stress recovery. Findings also indicated that differences in psychological resilience accounted for meaningful variation in daily emotional responses to stress. Higher levels of trait resilience predicted a weaker association between positive and negative emotions, particularly on days…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 20.32
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 152
Authors
4Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Stressor
- Psychological resilience
- Multilevel model
- Stress (linguistics)
- Developmental psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Trait