During 1995-2009, scholars unified stress and resilience within resource-based theories, treating culture, community, and the nested-self as key resources that buffer or magnify adverse outcomes. The period bridged psychology, organizational studies, and media analysis to depict stress as a resource-management process, with media narratives increasingly emphasizing coping, agency, and systemic context. Methodologically, researchers adopted large-scale syntheses and cross-disciplinary measurements, linking work-stress dynamics to burnout, performance, and well-being, while interrogating how media portrayals shape public perceptions of resilience.