Resilience is to bounce back after every disaster. I attach our paper.

Amalya Sukiasyan

Interesting question. I thought I had it in my mind but when it came to writing my response, it wore a bit thin. So I looked it up on Google, and quite liked their AI response:

'Psychological resilience is the ability to adapt well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. It's not about avoiding difficult experiences, but rather about bouncing back from them. Examples include a student who fails a test but studies harder and improves their grade, an athlete who recovers from an injury to return to their sport, or someone who loses their job but maintains a positive attitude and actively seeks new opportunities.'

I have just looked at and recommended the link supplied by Prof Dr S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist.

Mary C R Wilson, thank you for your response. Psychological resilience is indeed not about the easiest version of life, but the ability to face its challenges with hope, dignity, and inner strength. Although stressful experiences can be emotionally draining, they sometimes create opportunities to question the essence of being, recalibrating our values and celebrating even the small victories.

Amalya Sukiasyan

Thank you.

I will enjoy reading further responses to your question, and will probably learn a lot!

I think that sometimes stressful experiences - although sometimes unpleasant - teach you and you later feel that it has been positive and that you have gained from going through it.

Mary C R Wilson, I will also learn from these intellectual exchanges, enriching my knowledge and understanding with diverse perspectives! Yes, stressful experiences can truly teach us important life lessons, fostering creativity, psychological resilience, and even optimism toward the future.

Prof Dr S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

Thank you for your message regarding me reading your research. It's always good to read what people have written!

Mary

Dear Doctor

Go To

Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences: An Integrative Developmental Perspective in the Context of War and Displacement

• April 2021
• DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0022
• In book: Multisystemic Resilience
• License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Cassandra Mani Popham, Fiona McEwen, Michael Pluess

[Resilience is a central concept in many areas of psychology but has its original roots in devel-opmental psychopathology. Early individual and collaborative work between key researchers such as Michael Rutter, Emmy Werner, and Norman Garmezy led to the emergence of theoriginal concept on the back of empirical research on individual differences in the develop-mental response of at-risk children . Their research on childhood adversity in large cohort studies found that individuals showed substantial heterogeneity in their outcomes despite equivalent childhood risk. A large proportion of individuals thought to be at risk due to socioeconomic disadvantage or parents with mental health problems developed better than expected, leadingsuch children to be labeled as invulnerable . However,it was soon recognized that invulnerability was an inappropriate term, as it implied an absolute resistance to adversity in all possible circumstances, as the function of a stable characteristic intrinsic to the individual. Rutter (1993) argued this could not be the case, as the effects of adversity tend to be cumulative and individuals who are resistant to one type of stress maynot be resistant to others. Additionally, research showed that some individuals that had been exposed to adversity in childhood and initially displayed development of maladaptive behaviors recovered over time and seemed to function well in adulthood . In otherwords, they appeared to bounce back, most likely due to specific environmental or individual characteristics that exerted a protective function on their development. Hence, the term resilience came into use and the research focus shifted from risk to protective factors.]

Dear Sundus F. Hantoosh,

Thank you for sharing your insights. I agree that childhood experiences, especially stressful or traumatic ones, may have a negative effect throughout one's life. However, the other stages of life can influence psychological resilience in their own way. What’s important is to keep moving forward, transforming barriers into luminous paths, and being optimistic when facing challenges.