Title: Building Resilience | Cornell Health
Headings: Building Resilience
Building Resilience
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What is resilience?
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Content: You may be more resilient at different times in your life than others. Most importantly, resilience can be learned, practiced, developed, and strengthened. Learn more ...
What is resilience? Resilience is an individual’s ability to positively cope with stress and adversity – bouncing back to a previous state of normal functioning, or using the experience of adversity to enhance flexibility and overall functioning. Resilience has multi-dimensional aspects (Wong, 2012) including: Cognitive: How events are interpreted (cognitive style, appraisal, attribution) and how daily stressors and life circumstances are negotiated (coping)
Behavioral: Habits of persistence and endurance in face of obstacles and failures (behavioral practice and reinforcement)
Motivational: Clear sense of life purpose and commitment (will to live)
Existential/spiritual: Sense of larger purpose and meaning of human life (meaning and life purpose)
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