The purpose of this study was to look for ways to promote resilience and adversarial growth by uncovering the psychological abilities for dealing with adversity through understanding the process of reaching adversarial growth. The conceptualization of resilience in this study was based on the developmental contextualism, a recent trend of resilience research. Accordingly, a serial multiple mediator model comprised of BAS/BIS, adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, resilience, and adversarial growth was proposed and tested. Data were collected from 316 adults in their 30s to 60s with adversarial experience. Of those 316, data from 251 whose perceived pain from the adversity scored 5 or higher on the 7-point scale were analyzed. As a result, BAS/BIS did not have an effect on adversarial growth when adaptive cognitive emotion regulation was the only mediator. Rather, the effect of BAS/BIS on adversarial growth was mediated through resilience alone or through adaptive cognitive emotion regulation and resilience consecutively.