On this page, you’ll find a collection of resources and research relative to resilience in higher education.
WEBSITES
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
The Penn Positive Psychology Center Resilience Research
The Penn Resilience Program for College Students
Penn State’s Edna Bennet Pierce Prevention Research Center – Improving Classroom Learning Environments by Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE)
The Center for Resilience Advisory LLC resources for college students
ARTICLES
Clauss-Ehlers, C. S. & Wibrowski, C. R. (2007). Building Educational Resilience and Social Support: The Effects of the Educational Opportunity Fund Program Among First- and Second-Generation College Students. Journal of College Student Development 48(5), 574-584. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved August 29, 2017, from Project MUSE database. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2007.0051
Galatzer-Levy, I. R., Burton, C. L., & Bonanno, G. A. (2012). Coping flexibility, potentially traumatic life events, and resilience: A prospective study of college student adjustment. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31(6), 542-567.
Heller, Monica & Cassady, Jerrell. (2015). Predicting Community College and University Student Success: A Test of the Triadic Reciprocal Model for Two Populations. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. 18. DOI: 10.1177/1521025115611130.
Klibert, J., Lamis, D. A., Collins, W., Smalley, K. B., Warren, J. C., Yancey, C. T. and Winterowd, C. (2014), Resilience Mediates the Relations Between Perfectionism and College Student Distress. Journal of Counseling & Development, 92: 75–82. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00132.x
Li, M.-h. and Yang, Y. (2016), A Cross-Cultural Study on a Resilience–Stress Path Model for College Students. Journal of Counseling & Development, 94: 319–332. doi:10.1002/jcad.12088
Martin M. Chemers, Li-tze Hu, and Ben F. Garcia. (2001) Academic Self-Efficacy and First-Year College Student Performance and Adjustment University of California, Santa Cruz Journal of Educational Psychology. Vol. 93, No. 1, 55-64. DOI: 10.1037//0022-0663.93.1.55
Morales, E. E. (2014)Learning from Success: How Original Research on Academic Resilience Informs what College Faculty Can do to Increase the Retention of Low Socioeconomic Status Students . International Journal of Higher Education. 3(3). URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v3n3p92
Rogers H. Mindfulness Meditation for Increasing Resilience in College Students. Psychiatry Annals. 2013; 43: 545-548. doi: 10.3928/00485713-20131206-06 [link]
Shatkin, J. P. , Diamond, U., Zhao, Y., DiMeglio, J., Chodaczek, M., & Bruzzese, J. (2016). Effects of a Risk and Resilience Course on Stress, Coping Skills, and Cognitive Strategies in College Students. Teaching of Psychology, Vol. 43(3) 204-210. DOI: 10.1177/0098628316649457
Smeets, E., Neff, K., Alberts, H., & Peters, M. (2014). Meeting suffering with kindness: Effects of a brief self‐compassion intervention for female college students. Journal of clinical psychology, 70(9), 794-807.
Ward-Penny, R., Johnston-Wilder, S., & Lee, C. (2011). Exit interviews: Undergraduates who leave mathematics behind. For the Learning of Mathematics, 31(2), 21-26. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41319562
See also a bibliography from the Bounce Back Facilitator’s Manual at San Diego State University.