Resilience is typically conceptualized as successful adaptation to serious negative life
events. Even relatively mundane stressors, however, require coping. Therefore, we argue
that resilience should reflect managing well with stressors in general. To support the
argument that resilience is relevant for social psychology and that social psychology can
inform our understanding of resilience, we first discuss a program of research that links prior
life adversity exposure to resilience to everyday stressors. We next review a …