What is resilience (according to Tagage and Fredricsson?
It’s the ability to “bounce back” from negative emotional experiences by flexible adaptation to the changing demands of stressful experiences.
What is resilience (according to Penn)?
It’s the ability to grow from challenges,
What kind of variables contribute to resilience?
- biology
- self-awarness
- self-regulation
- mental agility
- optimism
- self-efficacy
- connection
- positive institution
What is self-awareness?
It’s trucking your emotions, thoughts and reactions- knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
What is mental agility?
It’s looking at things from different perspectives; problem solving; being able to identify the root cause of the problem.
What is optimism?
It’s the belief in positive future, attitude to continue.
What is self-efficacy?
It’s knowing your talents, I CAN attitude.
What is connection in resilience?
It’s relationship and spirituality.
How can we assess optimism?
- dispositional optimism (future)
2. explanatory style (past)
What is dispositional optimism?
It’s the basic belief that good things are going to happen- dr.Carver and Scheier.
What is explanatory style?
It’s the way we explain the causes of good and bad things that happen to us. - dr Martin Seligman.
What are 3 dimensions of explanatory style in optimism?
- internal vs external
- stable vs unstable
- global vs specific
What tendency have optimists in explanatory style?
When bad things happen optimists explain them as external, unstable and specific.
What are benefits of optimism?
- cope with stress more effectively
- have greater social support
- have greater quality of life
- have better immune response
- less likely to have coronary artery disease
- live longer
- success-performance at work
What optimists do differently?
- they are more skilful at identifying problems
- see the situation as a challenge not a threat
- identify what they can control
- more approach oriented
- seek information
- ask for help
- take action
- have more positive emotions
- have an exercise routine
- eat more healthy
