9. Resilience Flashcards
What is emotional resilience?
The ability to adapt to stressful situations and cope with life’s ups and downs
What is trait resilience?
Personality trait (characteristic) that helps person with that trait to cope with adversity and achieve successful developmental outcomes regardless of external obstacles they may experience
What is outcome defined resilience?
Considers resilience in the context of socially desirable outcome such as educational achievement, good cognitive functioning or simple the absence of psychopathology
What is the process focussed approach to resilience?
Considers primarilytheadaptive processthrough which individuals recovers from or adapts to adverse life events
What is meant by post-traumatic growth?
Positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances
What is the single most common factor for children who develop resilience?
At least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive parent, caregiver, or other adults
What is the broaden and build theory of positive emotions?
This theory suggests that positive emotions lead to novel or exploratory behavior. Over time, these actions lead to development meaningful, long-term resources such as knowledge and social relationships
B&B theory proposes that while negative emotion narrow and focus our action tendencies (e.g. flight from a dangerous situation) positive emotions lead to what?
Widening of the array of the thoughts and actions that come to mind and create the urge to play, push the limits, and be creative.
Tugage and Fredrickson (2004): Resilient individuals use ** ** to bounce back from negative emotional experiences
Positive emotions
What were the findings of Tugade and Frederickson? (2004) Clue: high-resilient individuals would evidence faster cardiovascular recovery from a stressor, relative to low-resilient participants
When instructed to appraise the task as a threat (vs. challenge), those with higher psychological resilience evidenced relatively shorter durations of cardiovascular reactivity and relatively greater experiences of positive emotions
In contrast, for those instructed to appraise the task as a challenge (vs. threat), durations of cardiovascular reactivity in response to the task did not differ by level of trait resilience. In other words, low-resilient individuals began to resemble high-resilient individuals
What were the findings of Gloria & Steinhardt (2016): Relationships among positive emotions, coping, resilience and mental health?
Results support broaden‐and‐build theory of positive emotions as demonstrated by positive emotions’ positive relationship with adaptive coping strategies, and negative relationship with maladaptive strategies
What are the two coexisting preconditions that describe resilient individuals?
The ability to recognise the effects of stressful situations, and the ability to experience positive outcomes despite sources of adversity
Several studies indicate that persons who can regain and maintain positive emotional states when faced with a stressful life experience (e.g., via laughter, coping with humor) can show improvements in what?
Immune function
Childhood play contributes to the building of what by increasing levels of creativity, creating theory of mind, and fueling brain development
Intellectual resources
Tugade et al (2004) Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: what were the findings?
The finding was that positive emotions play a crucial role in enhancing coping resources in the face of negative events and even reducing negative health outcomes
