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  • Social Ecology
  • Psychology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Individualistic explanations of resilience may oversimplify complex well-being processes.
  • Adversity often involves multisystemic factors impacting individual and community resilience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss a social ecological model of resilience.
  • To highlight the importance of environmental factors in resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Commentary based on existing evidence.
  • Theoretical discussion of a social ecological framework.

Main Results:

  • Environmental factors significantly influence resilience, especially under high stress.
  • A social ecological model avoids reductionism in understanding well-being.

Conclusions:

  • The social ecological model provides a more robust framework for studying resilience.
  • Understanding resilience requires considering individual, social, and environmental interactions.