1st Edition

Risk and Resilience in Human Development A Special Issue of Research in Human Development

Edited By Corey L.M. Keyes Copyright 2004
    126 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    126 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience" in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of human development as a process of constancy and change throughout life. The three empirical papers in this issue represent strong contributions to the growing corpus of research on risk and resilience in human development. The first one focuses on the uniquely vulnerable population of urban ethnic minority adolescent males. The second paper focuses on the risk and resilience from trauma in a sample of mostly Caucasian individuals from rural Iowa, who were at the last assessment, in the midst of transition into young adulthood. It measures an array of mental disorders outcomes and reveals the theoretical importance of timing of the risk factor. The last paper is a study begun in 1978 of a cohort of individuals with serious adolescent-onset mental disorder. It compares these individuals against the risk and resilience profiles of a matched sample without serious adolescent-onset psychiatric disorder. In sum this issue adds to the corpus of the frontiers of resilience research.

    Volume 1, Number 4, 2004
    Contents: C.L.M. Keyes, Risk and Resilience in Human Development: An Introduction. M.B. Spencer, S. Fegley, V. Harpalani, G. Seaton, Understanding Hypermasculinity in Context: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Urban Adolescent Males' Coping Responses. B.J. Feldman, R.D. Conger, R.G. Burzette, Traumatic Events, Psychiatric Disorders, and Pathways of Risk and Resilience During the Transition to Adulthood. J.H. Gralinski-Bakker, S.T. Hauser, C. Stott, R.L. Billings, J.P. Allen, Markers of Resilience and Risk: Adult Lives in a Vulnerable Population. R.M. Lerner, Diversity in Individual--Context Relations as the Basis for Positive Development Across the Life Span: A Developmental Systems Perspectives for Theory, Research, and Application (The 2004 Society for the Study of Human Development Presidential Address).

    Biography

    Corey L.M. Keyes