Adolescent Resilience: Emerging Research on Trajectories, Individual Differences, Critical Contexts, and Applications

Resilience is critical for understanding differences among individuals, groups, and cultures as it influences how people respond to challenges, draw on resources, and sustain healthy development and functioning. More research is needed on dispositional resilience, behaviors, cognitions and systems that contribute to resilient outcomes. Resilience is important to study across the lifespan, and there is space and a need to advance knowledge about resilience into and across adolescence. Adolescents are navigating multiple physical, psychological, social, political and environmental changes which can impact resilience strategies and behaviors and be impacted by resilient strategies. Current directions in developmental science show consensus on the value of studying forms of adolescent resilience and contributors to adolescent resilience. Still, there is room to expand emerging lines of inquiry for adolescent resilience; to improve the representation of different adolescent populations and settings when studying resilience; and to further explore and challenge the field’s methods and assumptions regarding adolescent resilience. The goal of this Research Topic is to offer insights into adolescent resilience research and highlight emerging directions for studying adolescent resilience, including related concepts such as self-compassion, hope, flourishing, love, and gratitude.We welcome submissions that examine resilience as an ecological and multisystemic phenomenon, including the roles of families, peers, schools, health systems, neighborhoods and environments, policies, and broader sociopolitical conditions in shaping adolescent well-being and adaptive functioning. We are interested in research that represents a range of methodologies, including behavioral observations, self-reports, physiological measures, and narrative, digitally mediated or creative methods. We are especially excited about research that centers on historically underrepresented adolescent populations, including adolescents from the global majority; adolescents who represent a diversity of racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities; and adolescents with disabilities. This Research Topic aims to highlight innovative views about adolescent resilience, measurements and analyses involving aspects of adolescent resilience, and settings and populations that have been historically understudied in the context of resilience. To do so, a wide set of relevant topics—including but not limited to the points below—will be considered:• Developmental trajectories of resilience. • Within- and between-group factors that shape adolescent resilience. • The implications of resilience for adolescents’ psychosocial and academic functioning.• The role of personality, attachment, identity and psychological assets such as character, emotion regulation and cognitive competencies, for resilience.• The reciprocal influences of family, peer, romantic, and/or other community relationships with resilience.• Adolescent resilience as embedded within specific contexts and social identities such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, socioeconomic position, and immigration or citizenship status. • Adolescent resilience as relevant across multiple cultural contexts and systems (i.e. multisystemic resilience). • The ways resilience is relevant to treatment and proactive forms of intervention for psychosocial adjustment (e.g., emotion competence, relational skills, coping, school-based supports, family or community-level interventions) and mental health. • Distinguishing resilience from similar concepts like post-traumatic growth, self-compassion, coping, including how these constructs may co-occur, interact, or operate at different levels of analysis.• Adolescent resilience and topics of disability, accessibility, inclusion, and accommodation within schools and communities. • Novel questions about ecological risks and adolescent resilience, spanning risk-taking behaviors, neighborhood influences, social media and technology use, and broader economic policies. • Resilience and moral development.All submissions should explicitly examine resilience in adolescence within the context of adversity, stress, risk, or constrained environments, whether at the individual or multisystem level. Manuscripts that focus solely on general well-being or positive traits, without a clear link to adversity, stress, and resilience processes in adolescence, may be more suitable for other Research Topics or venues.Submissions can take the form of Original Research; Brief Research Reports; Data Reports; Clinical Trials; Methods Papers; Policy and Practice Reviews; Systematic Reviews; and General Commentaries. Topic editors: Jordan Ashton Booker, Diane Thembekile Levine, Sadiyya Haffejee Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/73481/adolescent-resilience-emerging-research-on-trajectories-individual-differences-critical-contexts-and-applications