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Personal resilience in times of crisis : the implications of SWB homeostasis and set-points

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posted on 2014-02-01, 00:00 authored by Robert CumminsRobert Cummins, M Wooden
Our companion paper (Cummins et al. in J Happiness Stud, 2013) describes the statistical process used to demonstrate set-points and set-point-ranges for subjective wellbeing. The implications of set-points and homeostasis are now considered in the context of resilience. This discussion leads with a brief overview of resilience definitions and is followed by a description of subjective wellbeing (SWB) homeostasis. This addresses, in particular, the issue of SWB malleability under homeostatic control. The link between resources and resilience is then considered, in terms of predictions made by homeostasis theory. Finally, discussion focuses on the implications of such understanding for future directions in SWB research. It is concluded that an understanding of set-points and homeostasis allows new insights into the resilience construct.

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Journal

Journal of happiness studies

Volume

15

Issue

1

Pagination

223 - 235

Publisher

Springer

Location

Dordrecht, The Netherlands

ISSN

1389-4978

eISSN

1573-7780

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, Springer

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