About this Webinar

Psychological resilience, key to adapting to challenges, is a priority for NIA research. We developed the Simplified Resilience Score (SRS) for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), showing its link to health benefits in later life. This webinar covers SRS testing, reliability, and use in longitudinal modeling.

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.
 

Presented by: 

• Dawn C. Carr, PhD, MGS, FGSA, Director, Claude Pepper Center
• Amanda Sonnega, PhD, Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging