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Personal resilience in times of crisis : the implications of SWB homeostasis and set-points
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 of happiness studiesVolume
15Issue
1Pagination
223 - 235Publisher
SpringerLocation
Dordrecht, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1389-4978eISSN
1573-7780Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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