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Since 2002, the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University (RRC – http://www.resilienceresearch.org) has explored culturally and contextually sensitive ways of studying resilience among children, youth and families on six continents. That work has shown that the resilience of individuals growing up in challenging contexts or facing significant personal adversity is dependent on the quality of the social and physical ecologies that surround them as much, and likely far more, than personality traits, cognitions or talents. As the authors in this volume show, nurture trumps nature when it comes to explaining why many children do well despite the odds stacked against them.
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Ungar, M. (2012). Introduction to the Volume. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_1
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