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The first aspect of the B factor, parental resources, identifies potential factors that may contribute to pressures for change and foster distress as well as potential sources of recovery (Allen, 2017; Boss, 2002; Hennon et al., 2009; Hennon et al., 2007; Patterson, 2002). Positive resources are the traits, qualities, characteristics, and abilities of parents, parent–child relationships, family systems, and the larger social context that can possibly be brought to bear on the demands of stressors. These characteristics of individuals or the social context have potential or latent capacity to buffer stress by decreasing the negative effects of stressors. Resources also includes negative resources, or the potential or latent vulnerabilities of parents and parent–child relationships to stressors and crisis events. Negative resources at individual and relationship levels have the possibility of accentuating stress by increasing the adverse effects of stressors (McCubbin & Patterson, 1983; Patterson, 2002).

A distinguishing characteristic of resources (both positive and negative) is their potential rather than actual nature (Hennon et al., 2007; McCubbin & Patterson, 1983; Patterson, 2002). This means that parents, with seemingly equivalent resources, often vary in the extent to which they can put these reserves into action within the parent–child relationship. Variability in accessing resources underscores the idea that resources are only capacities that may or may not be put into action by parents (Henry et al., 2015). Resources are often classified based on their origins as within the person, within the familial environment, or other social contexts.