Adversity Quotient Case Study

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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND RELATED STUDIES
Adversity Quotient Adversity Quotient is an established science, theory and approach for becoming measurably more resilient (Stoltz, 2016). It is a measure of one’s resilience and ability to persevere in the face of constant change, stress and difficulty or it is simply a measure of how individual respond to every day adversary (Amparo, 2014). It is the ability of the person to adapt to distress, challenge, setbacks, suffering, troubles, difficulties and misfortune. The more resilient you are, the more effectively and constructively you respond to life difficulties and the more fulfilling life becomes. It will also determine how well an individual will stand strong and true when …show more content…

Adversity being stressed to people, everyone has its own pace of facing it. He/ She may not consider that each decision he/she makes has an equal or corresponding situation. It requires a certain resilience to overcome adverse situation. It entails staying stable and being healthy in the levels of physical and psychological functions, even in the face of challenge. People who successfully apply Adversity Quotient perform optimally in the face of adversities. In fact they do not only learn from this challenge, but they respond to situation better and faster (Amparo 2014). This is because Advesity Quotient come’s our natural ability to learn, adopt and change that enhances our vital ability. A person with high AQ enhances their accountability to control, empower and motivate actions while low AQ people disown the problem causing failure to act, give up, point finger, reduce performance and anger directed towards others and many more negative actions ( Canivel, 2010). People with high AQ holds themselves accountable for situation regardless of the cause, while those with lower AQ lapse into victimization of helplessness (Cura & Gozum 2011). Recent research have proved that Adversity Quotient can be increased dramatically, permanently revived and strengthened, People with high AQ translate capacity, productivity …show more content…

Paul Stoltz in 1997. It is a scientific theory of human resilience. According to Stoltz, AQ determines the ability of a person to succeed in work and in life. It tells how a person withstands adversity and his ability to surmount it. It predicts how well overcome adversity and who will crush it predicts who will give up and who prevails. Adversity Quotient strengthens the effectiveness of leadership and enhancing the effectiveness of subordinates. Adverse situation can be divided into these categories; events you have no control or influence over, situations resulting from decision you made and circumstances crushed by someone else action (Stoltz, 2010). He identified 3 levels of adversity`; social, workplace and

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