Cavan Bonner
cavanvbonner.bsky.social
Cavan Bonner
@cavanvbonner.bsky.social
Doctoral student researching personality development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Self-regulation, adversity, and identity. www.cavanbonner.com
Congratulations Rick!! Good luck at CUNY!
June 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@bwroberts.bsky.social and I have suggested that self-selecting into challenging goals or situations could be one category of life experience that is more promising than exogenous stressors... I hope to have more empirical work on that to share soon.

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Resilience Isn’t Found in Trauma, But It May Be Found in Other Life Experiences | American Journal of Psychiatry
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June 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We found no support for the idea adversity is reliably associated with growth. The intercept-slope correlations were null; the slope-slope correlations were negative. We should look elsewhere for life experiences that are robustly associated with growth and maturation...
June 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
toggling between dark and light mode seemed to work for me on Mac
June 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM