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Psychological Inquiry, 26: 170–173, 2015 Copyright
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.1013346 COMMENTARIES Richard A. Bryant School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Multidimensionality of Resilience this resilience may give way to more problematic signs. In such scenarios, understanding resilience Bonanno et al. (in press) go some way in outlining needs to accommodate the fluid and changing nature the problems in defining resilience in dichotomous or of the person’s or community’s capacity to cope with averaged ways when analyzing psychological out- different situations. This complexity underscores comes. The tendency has been over the years, how- Bonanno et al.’s (in press) argument that longitudinal ever, to have a one-dimensional approach to assessments are mandatory to adequately portray conceptualizing the resilience of an individual (or resilience. However, it extends the point such that family or community). In fact, one may be resilient in even though latent growth modelling requires multi- one domain of one’s life but not at all resilient in ple assessments from a statistical perspective, there is another. For example, following adversity one may also the need for more frequent assessments that be resilient