Knowra Resilience Resilience Resilience is the process of adapting to adversity, trauma, or significant stress while maintaining or regaining functioning. It can involve recovery, sustained adaptation, or growth.
Stress response : The physiological and psychological changes that help an organism respond to demands or threats. Resilience includes adapting to stress responses and restoring manageable levels of arousal.
Adversity : Difficult circumstances or experiences that threaten well-being or development. Resilience concerns adaptation in the presence of adversity, not simply positive functioning.
Hardiness : A personality pattern associated with commitment, perceived control, and viewing change as a challenge. Hardiness is a related trait concept, whereas resilience describes adaptation over time.
Child development : The physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur from infancy through adolescence. Developmental research examines how children adapt to adversity across changing life stages.
Resilience research : The interdisciplinary study of adaptation to adversity across individuals, communities, and systems. Its findings depend on how adversity, adaptation, and successful functioning are defined.
Coping : The thoughts and actions used to manage demands appraised as stressful. Coping strategies are among the ways people adapt during adversity.
Psychological stress : A state arising when perceived demands challenge or exceed available resources. Stress helps explain the demands to which resilient adaptation responds.
Grit : Perseverance and sustained interest in long-term goals despite setbacks. Grit emphasizes persistence toward goals; resilience also includes recovery and changing course.
Resilience in psychology : The study of how individuals and groups adapt to adversity while maintaining or regaining psychological functioning. This research tradition measures adaptation and investigates its protective processes.
Resilience factor : A characteristic or condition associated with better adaptation under adversity. Factors such as support or self-regulation may help, but their effects depend on context.
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