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Exploring Workplace Resilience Through a Personality Strength Lens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Jennifer P. Green ,
David M. Wallace  and
Amber K. Hargrove
Jennifer P. Green*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
David M. Wallace
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
Amber K. Hargrove
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jennifer P. Green, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030. E-mail: jgreen24@gmu.edu
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Resilience research has primarily focused on occupations that undergo a significant amount of stress, such as the military or trauma teams. In response, Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (2016) call for “future work on resilience to expand to include a wider cross section of workers and occupations” (p. 397). We suggest that viewing resilience through a personality strength lens will facilitate this expansion. Adopting a personality strength approach to resilience will more clearly (a) link the capacity for resilience to positive adaptation in the face of a broader range of stressors beyond objectively significant adversity and (b) open up new methods of investigating the demonstration of resilience.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 447 - 452
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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