Resilience to Stress and Adversity: A Narrative Review of the Role of Positive Affect
Luke Egan,
Haeme Park,
Janine Lam
et al.
Abstract:The modern conception of mental health encompasses not only mental illness but also mental wellbeing, including positive emotional states and other forms of positive experience. Accordingly, research on resilience -that is, recovery or adaptation following adversity -has recently expanded to consider the roles of positive affect in the resilience process. To review this research, we performed a keyword search of all peer-reviewed journals within the American Psychological Association's PsycInfo database, retri… Show more
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