American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
 1987
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1987.tb03541.x
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Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.

Michael Rutter
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Abstract: The concept of mechanisms that protect people against the psychological risks associated with adversity is discussed in relation to four main processes: reduction of risk impact, reduction of negative chain reactions, establishment and maintenance of self-esteem and self-efficacy, and opening up of opportunities. The mechanisms operating at key turning points in people's lives must be given special attention.

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“…The findings in the present study draw attention to an important theoretical issue, which deserves further attention. First, contrary to previous studies (Masten et al, 1990;Rutter, 1987), the present results favoured a compensatory model of resilience rather than a protective one by supporting statistical main effects and no interaction effects. In contrast to the protective effects observed with the resilience scale for adults , the READ fitted a compensatory model better despite containing virtually similar items and factor structure.…”
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confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…The findings in the present study draw attention to an important theoretical issue, which deserves further attention. First, contrary to previous studies (Masten et al, 1990;Rutter, 1987), the present results favoured a compensatory model of resilience rather than a protective one by supporting statistical main effects and no interaction effects. In contrast to the protective effects observed with the resilience scale for adults , the READ fitted a compensatory model better despite containing virtually similar items and factor structure.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…This study furthers past research by examining within‐culture variations in familism values among African American adolescents and highlights the role of cultural context in family dynamics. Contrary to predictions based on resilience theory (Rutter, 1987), we did not find that familism values acted as a buffer against the potentially harmful impact of sibling negativity. The two multiplicative protective patterns revealed, however, that a harmonious sibling relationship in concert with strong familism values was associated with the lowest levels of depressive symptoms and the highest levels of school bonding for older siblings.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…The findings achieved from the analysis of the data collected through teacher resilience scores revealed that there was a significant in the teachers' resilience scores between the novice and experienced teacher groups. The results of the present study are in line with the findings of Howard and Johnson (2004), Rutter (1985), in which they indicated that there was a significant difference between novice and experienced teachers' resiliency and contextual factors.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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