Assessment of resilience after ABI may be useful in supporting or defining the delivery of more individualized rehabilitation programmes according to the resources and vulnerabilities a young person has. However, an accurate understanding of the role of EF in the relationship between resilience and behavioural outcome after ABI is essential.

This study used contextual stress measurement to look at the occupational sequelae of stress. One hundred and five civil aviation pilots were interviewed. Events and difficulties were dated and rated for contextual threat; dating information was also obtained for distress symptoms and air traffic incidents. There were significant relationships between stress and air incidents, between stress and distress, and between distress and incidents. Some symptoms (sleep disturbances, loss of energy and tiredness) were more likely to be associated with reported incidents than others. The results are in line with previous suggestions that the effect of stress on job performance is via distress. Distress‐related sleep disturbances may be particularly crucial. Further work using contextual stress measurement is needed to clarify the causal pathways involved. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Attention-switching skills have some interdependence with EF, but in paediatric assessment such skills are easier to routinely assess than many of the currently available tests of EF. It is suggested that attention-switching ability may prove to be a useful predictor of EF performance in understanding long-term outcome after a neurological event such as traumatic brain injury.