Dear Sandesh.

I may be wrong, but I see no relation between fatalism and resilience. When resilience is the case, we become unvulnerable, say, to a negative physical and/or social environment. There is accumulated evidence that shows that resilient chidren perfom well even in conditions that apparently would hinder their psyhological development. It has also been found that parents of resilient children have stable emotional relations, or, in other words, resilient children are more a result of their psychological than social environement. From a psychological viewpoint, it matters a lot to distinguish the child's social environment (e.g., house in which s/he lives and grows up, the socioeconomic status of his/her parents, his/her friends, and so forth) from his/her psychological environment (e.g., how parents react to their children's rightdoings and wrondoings). This distiction may help us understand why brothers or sisters with the same social miliey behave differently at schools, for example. In a nutshell, resilience is one's ability to overcome negative events and hence the fatalism one judged to be difficult, if not impossible to be overcome.

Best regards,

Orlando

We have studied resilience from two perspectives. It has nothing to do with fatalism. The latter may be a substitute for faith.

Thanks

@s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

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@Michael Uebel