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Opponent Process Theory Can Help Explain Some Effects of Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Nathan A. Bowling  and
Terry A. Beehr
Nathan A. Bowling*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wright State University
Terry A. Beehr
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Nathan A. Bowling, Department of Psychology, Wright State University, 303C Fawcett Hall, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435-0001. E-mail: nathan.bowling@wright.edu
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We read the focal article by Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (2016) with special interest. About 10 years ago, we were asked to write a chapter on hardiness (Beehr & Bowling, 2005), and in doing so we had many observations about hardiness that were similar to Britt et al.’s observations about resilience. Our chapter was most closely aligned with the “capacity” concept of resilience, but we think that both the “capacity” approach and the “demonstration” approach to resilience have merit.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 486 - 490
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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