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A Nonlinear Paradigm for Resilience, Workload, Performance, and Clinical Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Stephen J. Guastello
Stephen J. Guastello*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Marquette University
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Stephen J. Guastello, Department of Psychology, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. E-mail: [email protected]
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Research on resilience in the workplace is currently limited by at least two issues: an inconsistent documentation and choice of the stress-producing events and a singular construct of what constitutes resilience (Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, & Klieger, 2016). This commentary summarizes some recent experimental research that was possibly too new to have been included in the review and that offers some insights to both concerns. The research is predicated on a theoretical model that explains the role of resilience in either work-related or clinical outcomes and the temporal dynamics of work performance.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 509 - 516
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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