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Personality science, resilience, and posttraumatic growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2015

Eranda Jayawickreme ,
Marie J. C. Forgeard  and
Laura E. R. Blackie
Eranda Jayawickreme
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 jayawide@wfu.edu blackile@wfu.edu http://www.wfu.edu/~jayawide http://www.growthinitiative.org
Marie J. C. Forgeard
Affiliation:
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241. mariefd@psych.upenn.edu https://sites.google.com/site/marieforgeard/home
Laura E. R. Blackie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 jayawide@wfu.edu blackile@wfu.edu http://www.wfu.edu/~jayawide http://www.growthinitiative.org
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Abstract

PASTOR represents an innovative development in the study of resilience. This commentary highlights how PASTOR can help both clarify critical questions in and benefit from engaging with new research in personality science on behavioral flexibility across situations in addition to stability over time, and also clarify the relationship between resilience and posttraumatic growth.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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