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Together, these processes support healthy adjustment, which is the individual’s ongoing ability to meet personal, social, and biological needs effectively. Through this balance, individuals establish a sense of stability and harmony, enabling them to respond flexibly to life’s challenges while maintaining a well-rounded sense of well-being. [5]
Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. [1] This concept is also termed as psychosocial competency. [ 2 ]
the belief that change, rather than stability, is the normal mode of life and constitutes motivating opportunities for personal growth rather than threats to security [1] Maddi characterized hardiness as a combination of three attitudes (commitment, control, and challenge) that provide the courage and motivation needed to turn stressful ...
Let’s be honest: 2024 tested us in all the weirdest ways. From surprise home maintenance disasters to everyday grooming annoyances, it was a year full of small but highly inconvenient challenges.
Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
The general understanding that suffering and distress can potentially yield positive change is thousands of years old. [1] For example, some of the early ideas and writing of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and early Christians, as well as some of the teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam [4] and the Baháʼí Faith [5] contain elements of the potentially transformative power of suffering.
Thankfully, one sensory challenge just got a little easier to manage after a ruling by the Food and Drug Administration that promises to make one medical device cheaper and more easily available.
Personal finance is probably the biggest one. Understanding credit cards, savings rates, investing, debt, etc. will save you so much time and money in the long run.