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Series 12

PSYCHOLOGY. SOCIOLOGY. EDUCATION.

Issue 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Section EDUCATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCHES
Codes UDC 159.99 Page 78-86
Title Resilience: theoretical analysis of approaches, models and theories
Author 1 Valieva Fatima I. St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University
195251, St. Petersburg, Russia
Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor
e-mail: jf.fairways@mail.ru
Summary Resilience is considered to be one of the most heuristic and integrative concepts appeared in modern century in the social sciences. The article reviews the essence of resilience, its main approaches, models, theories. It highlights the last researches of well-known scientists from the USA, Italy, Great Britain and other countries. The potential significance of resilience is revealed through main waves of its researches, basic constructs and defi nitions. The history of the resilience phenomenon is traced briefly starting with its definition and measuring aspects up to nowadays integrative period encompassing advances in the study of neurobehavioral development and statistics. The second part of the article summarizes major approaches and models including individually and process focusing variations. Brief analysis of compensatory, protective and challenge models being under serious scientific discussions help to substantiate the problem of resources and assets, including social support, competence, motivation and other constituents. The resilience terminology aspects, represented in the third part of the article, are the points of issue in recent scientific researches. For a long period resilience was studied as a dynamic process of successful adaptation to adversity through the lens of developmental psychology. Across research and practice, there has been considerable debate over the defi nition, conceptualization and operationalization of the studying phenomenon. Diff erent scientific views on defi nitions and concepts of resilience are analyzed through its categorization as a process, an individual trait, an outcome or all of the above. The last part deals with the marquee and perspective theories with special emphasis on non-traditional interpretation of resilience constructs. The author`s view on the phenomenon and scientific potential is also represented in the work.
Keywords adaptation, adversities, positive outcomes, appraisal.