Introducing a Measure of Psychological Resilience for Use in Population Research on Aging
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/22/2026 at 1:00 PM (EST)
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This webinar is designed to introduce the Simplified Resilience Score (SRS) for use in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to the GSA membership. Psychological resilience is an intra-individual resource capturing the ability to adapt in the face of challenges. The SRS is the first psychological resilience measure available in, and created for, population health data. Using the measure, we have shown that psychological resilience is related to health benefits in later life. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has identified resilience as a priority research focus to help understand and improve responses to stressors and health setbacks. The webinar will describe in detail the resilience measure and provide guidance on using the measure in research with the HRS longitudinal data.
Dawn Carr, PhD
Professor/Director
Florida State University
Dawn C. Carr is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University. Carr’s work seeks to enhance health and wellbeing as people move through middle and later life and the resources and interventions that allow people to remain active and engaged members of society for as long as possible. Her recent work examines how working and volunteering influences physical, psychological, and cognitive health in middle and later life, and the role of psychological resources in shaping recovery from stressful exposures such as spousal loss, financial precarity, falls, and the onset of chronic health conditions.
Amanda Sonnega
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