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Profiles as a Way of Learning More About Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Thomas E. Becker  and
Diane L. Ferry
Thomas E. Becker*
Affiliation:
College of Business, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
Diane L. Ferry
Affiliation:
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas E. Becker, College of Business, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, 8350 North Tamiami Trail, C263, Sarasota, FL 34243. E-mail: teb1@sar.usf.edu
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Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (2016) discuss employee resilience trajectories, noting that only a few studies taking this approach have been conducted in the workplace. They recommend that with such an approach it is essential to assess baseline functioning, document adversity, and gather longitudinal data. They also point out the need to clarify what variables should be measured in the demonstration of resilience and suggest that resilience trajectories across different outcomes may or may not converge. We agree that trajectories are a promising approach to studying employee resilience. However, conceptualizing trajectories as profiles provides additional meaningful concepts for describing the demonstration of resilience. These concepts have the potential for moving theory and research beyond the work on trajectories described by Britt et al.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 503 - 508
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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