Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol 11(2), Jun 2025, 131-136; doi:10.1037/tps0000460
Resilience is crucial to understanding the ability of communities to adapt in the face of adversity and disadvantage. This special issue highlights several studies varying in methodological approaches to the study of resilience among diverse communities, providing crucial insights to advance the field. Limitations in standard approaches to measuring, conceptualizing, and analyzing resilience require attention to cultural and contextual factors that are key to understanding resilience among diverse populations. New approaches to resilience research necessitate revised concepts to guide the adaptation of current measures, elevate qualitative approaches that give prominence to lived experiences, and capture multilevel factors to approach resilience as an individual, community, and structural construct. The development of effective community resources, interventions, and advocacy to promote and protect resilience among diverse communities requires careful consideration of culture and context, as well as attention to the modes of delivery and domains of influence that need to be considered. In this special issue, the lived experiences of diverse communities—including Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African families, unaccompanied immigrant minors, racially minoritized transgender and gender expansive young adults, and older adults confronting climate disasters—provide insight into socioecological and intersectional approaches that are needed to fill existing gaps in knowledge and advance the study of resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)