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1Family Resources and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2502, USA. mark.roosa@asu.edu
Child Development
|August 23, 2000
Abstract:
Interaction effects are the defining feature of resilience and resilience research and are responsible for the unique contributions of this field of study to our understanding of human development. The methodological and statistical challenges posed by interaction effects do not, by themselves, undermine the value of resilience as a construct.