Abstract

Psychological Inquiry, 26: 187–196, 2015 Copyright
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.1012041 Ann S. Masten Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota Remarkable progress is evident in the yield from five resilience, will be influenced by many interactions decades of research on psychological resilience, within the individual (genetic, neural, immunological, while at the same time, there are notable gaps and cognitive, etc.) and also between the person and the challenges confronting this maturing science (Mas- environment, including interactions with family, peers, ten, 2014b; Masten & Cicchetti, in press; Panter- school, community, and the natural and built environ- Brick & Leckman, 2013). In this commentary on the ment. Development always reflects the current context integrative temporal framework presented by as well as the history of a person’s previous develop- Bonanno, Romero, and Klein (this issue), I consider ment. Thus, resilience, whether it is defined in terms advances and challenges confronting resilience sci- of capacity, processes, or outcomes of positive adapta- ence from a developmental systems perspective. tion in contexts of risk, will depend on the co-action First, I describe a profound shift toward dynamic of multiple systems as