Psychological resilience

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about his experience in the Soviet gulags in his book The Gulag Archipelago.

Psychological resilience according to the American Psychological Association "is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands."[1]

Factors that contribute to how well people adapt to adversities

"Psychological resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficulties. You can increase your resilience by practicing self-care, building social connections, and developing a growth mindset."[2]

Factors that contribute to how well people adapt to adversities are:[3][4]

  • Locus of control: Sense of control over one's life: The belief that you can influence events in your life.
  • Optimism and positive emotions: Feeling optimistic, hopeful, and grateful can help you adapt to challenges.
  • Positive thinking: Having a positive attitude and outlook can help you build resilience
  • A growth mindset thrives on challenge.[5] The Harvard Business School points out that a growth mindset helps entrepreneurs develop resilience because "When challenges, setbacks, and failures inevitably arise, your business’s survival depends on your ability to persevere and learn from difficult situations."[6] According to the website Everyday Health, "Research shows that when students believe that both intellectual abilities and social attributes can be developed and improved — commonly known as having a “growth mindset” — they increase their own resilience, showing improved performance and a lower stress response to adversity.[7] See: Growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset
  • The availability and quality of social resources. See: Social network
  • Acceptance: Being able to accept the things you can't change
  • Role models: Having people to look up to
  • Exercise: Being physically active can help with resilience

Dr. Al Siebert on resilience

Dr. Al Siebert (January 21, 1934 - June 25, 2009) was an American author and educator. He was best known for his research on psychological resilience and the inner nature of highly resilient survivors.

Siebert was a former paratrooper wrote the book The Survivor Personality: Why Some People are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life’s Difficulties…and How You Can Be, Too. Siebert offers his findings from autobiographies and hundreds of interviews. He interviewed survivors of adversity such as war, cancer, abuse, job loss, and addictions.

A book summary of his book can be found at: Book Summary: The Survivor Personality.

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Beyond mere resilience: Thriving in adversity and being antifragile

Book

Paul Stoltz, Ph.D and the adversity quotient

Paul Stoltz, Ph.D "developed the Adversity Quotient (AQ) to test the unconscious pattern of how people respond to adversity, and show how to increase it and, thereby, help individuals become valuable at work."[8]

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Antifragility in psychology and personal development

Hercules battling a hydra.

See also: Antifragility

Antifragility is a property of systems/beings in which they increase in capability and resilience to thrive as a result of stressors, pressure, attacks, shocks, volatility, and temporary mistakes/failures.[9]

The term antifragility is often used in relation to psychology and personal development and other fields.

Antifragility and psychology/personal development

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Mental toughness

See also: Mental toughness

“The 3 key components for success are as follows: psychological preparedness, physical conditioning, mental toughness.”- Chuck Norris[10]

According to the company Mental Toughness Partners:

“ Mental Toughness is a personality trait that determines your ability to perform consistently under stress and pressure, and is closely related to qualities such as character, resilience, grit and perseverance.

Peter Clough, Professor of Applied Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pioneer on research into Mental Toughness further describes a mentally tough person as “someone who is comfortable in their own skin, can take whatever comes along in their stride and mostly enjoy the challenge”.[11]

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Mental toughness is often referred to relative to sports and work performance and it is a predictor of success in sports, the workplace and education. Mental toughness is estimated to account for up to 25% variation in performance according to research carried out by Professor Peter Clough and his colleagues (See: MTQ mental toughness assessments).[12][13][14] In the workplace, salespeople have high levels of mental toughness compared to other workers.[15]

Journal articles

See also: Social rejection

External links

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External links

  • Adversity advantage (harnessing adversity for motivation/character development instead of merely trying to cope with it)

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Notes

  1. ↑ Resilience
  2. ↑ How to you increase your psychological resilience?
  3. ↑ Resilience
  4. ↑ What is a growth mindset? 8 steps to develop one., Western Governors University
  5. ↑ What is a growth mindset? 8 steps to develop one., Western Governors University
  6. ↑ GROWTH MINDSET VS. FIXED MINDSET: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?, Harvard Business School
  7. ↑ Resilience: A Guide to Facing Life’s Challenges, Adversities, and Crises
  8. ↑ Adversity Quotient test
  9. ↑ What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Fragile?
  10. ↑ Chuck Norris quote, Quote Fancy website
  11. ↑ What is Mental Toughness?
  12. ↑ MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND PEAK PERFORMANCE: IN WORK, LEADERSHIP AND LIFE, IT MATTERS by Jeff Standridge, Arkansas Money and Politics magazine
  13. ↑ Why Mental Toughness Is Critically Important?, Mental Toughness Partners
  14. ↑ Sports Psychology Tips: Mental Toughness is a Hugely Valuable Trait
  15. ↑ Mental Toughness and the effectiveness of Sales People
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