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Exploring Adolescent Resilience Through the Lens of Core Self-Evaluations

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Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

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Oprah Winfrey’s lifetime accomplishments are impressive by any measure. Named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the twentieth century, she hosted one of the world’s most watched television shows for 24 years (Academy of Achievement, 2011). She is also a film producer, runs her own magazine and cable television station, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the movie The Color Purple. She has variously been the highest-paid performer on television, the richest self-made woman in America, and the richest African-American of the twenty-first century.

We thank Patrick Kyllonen, Bobby Naemi, John Sabatini, and Franklin Zaromb for comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript and Anthony Betancourt, Daniel Howard, and Mary Lucas for supporting the preparation of this chapter. All statements expressed in this chapter are the author’s and do not reflect the official opinions or policies of the any of the authors host affiliations.

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  1. Educational Testing Service, Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success, Rosedale Road MS 18E, Princeton, NJ, 08541, USA

    Diane Cardenas Elliott Ph.D. & Jeremy Burrus Ph.D.

  2. The College Board, 661 Penn Street, Suite B, Newtown, PA, 18940, USA

    Pamela Kaliski Ph.D.

  3. Educational Testing Service, Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success, R&D, Rosedale Road MS 18E, Princeton, NJ, 08541, USA

    Richard D. Roberts Ph.D.

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Elliott, D.C., Kaliski, P., Burrus, J., Roberts, R.D. (2013). Exploring Adolescent Resilience Through the Lens of Core Self-Evaluations. In: Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D. (eds) Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4939-3_15

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