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Concepts Of Resilience

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This essay will be focused on resilience and it is divided into two parts. Five concepts of resilience, including successful adaptation despite challenging, recovery, personal factor, family cohesion and external support system, will be discussed in the first part. For the second part, an evaluation of what extent does I process resilience will be made by a comprehensive reflection of my life experiences. First of all, the concept, successful adaptation despite challenging, will be discussed. Masten, Best and Garmazy (1990, p.1) indicated that resilience is “the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances”. That means a person with high resilience can accommodate the difficulties …show more content…

Davey, Eaker and Walters (2003, p.349) pointed out the main five areas of personal factor are “extroversion, emotional instability, agreeableness, openness and conscientiousness”. As there is a word limit, three areas, extroversion, openness and conscientiousness, will be discussed here briefly. Extroversion simply means outgoing personality. If an extroversion person encounters difficulties, he is more willing to share his feelings with others. Thus, he may be easy to adapt to the difficulties as well as more resilient. Openness means the quality of willing to accept others ideas. If a person keeps an open mind when he faces difficulties, he may explore other opportunities to solve the problem by receiving others recommendations. For conscientiousness, it means the desire to do something well. If a conscientious person faces difficulties, he would try his best to find the solution. Therefore, he can have a higher chance to cope with the problems which means his resilience is high. As a result, personal factor is significant to …show more content…

Friborg, Hjemdal, Rosenvinge and Matinussen (2003) identified family cohesion is also a factor affecting resilience. Family cohesion means a bonding within a family which the family members would share their ideas and feelings with each other. If a person faces adversity and he can share his feelings with his family members, he may relax and be confident to deal with the problems. Also, family members can show support by simply an encouragement or a hug. Therefore, he may be easy to adapt to the difficult circumstances as well as more resilient. On the contrary, if the family cohesion is low, he would have less paths to share his feelings. Thus, he would need to withstand a high pressure when he faces difficulties. Consequently, he may lose the faith to cope with the problems. As a result, family cohesion is also important to

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