Adapting to life’s slings and arrows: Individual differences in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat |
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| Authors: | Christian E Waugh Barbara L Fredrickson Stephan F Taylor |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Jordan Hall, Building 420, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;bDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Davie Hall, CB 3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA;cDepartment of Psychiatry, UH-9D University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA |
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| Abstract: | Following highly negative events, people are deemed resilient if they maintain psychological stability and experience fewer mental health problems. The current research investigated how trait resilience Block, J., & Kremen, A. M. (1996). IQ and ego-resiliency: Conceptual and empirical connections and separateness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(2), 349–361, ER89] influences recovery from anticipated threats. Participants viewed cues (‘aversive’, ‘threat’, ‘safety’) that signified the likelihood of an upcoming picture (100% aversive, 50/50 aversive/neutral, or 100% neutral; respectively), and provided continuous affective ratings during the cue, picture, and after picture offset (recovery period). Participants high in trait resilience (HighR) exhibited more complete affective recovery (compared to LowR) after viewing a neutral picture that could have been aversive. Although other personality traits previously associated with resilience (i.e., optimism, extraversion, neuroticism) predicted affective responses during various portions of the task, none mediated the influence of trait resilience on affective recovery. |
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| Keywords: | Resilience Emotion regulation Recovery Relief Anticipation |
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