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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.
Social interaction has a strong effect on well-being as negative social outcomes are more strongly related to well-being than are positive social outcomes. [9] Childhood traumatic experiences diminish psychological well-being throughout adult life, and can damage psychological resilience in children, adolescents, and adults. [ 10 ]
Three Principles Psychology (TPP), previously known as Health Realization (HR), is a resiliency approach to personal and community psychology [1] first developed in the 1980s by Roger C. Mills and George Pransky, who were influenced by the teachings of philosopher and author Sydney Banks. [2]
Malinen is an organisational and applied psychologist, and her research covers topics such as leadership development, and how to build resilience in workplaces and communities. [1] She has researched what factors in team meetings enable better decision-making, and the concept of 'paradoxical leadership' in public organisations, defined as 'the ...
The death of a partner can take a serious toll on the surviving spouse's well-being. Experts suggest ways people can protect their health. The 'widowhood effect': How losing a spouse can affect ...
Positive psychology is a field of psychological theory and research of optimal human functioning of people, groups, and institutions. [1] [2] It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions... it aims to improve quality of life."
When Gen Z most connected with grandparents they came away with lessons on kindness, family bonding, work ethic, and resilience, according to the survey. Gen X and millennials had similar learnings.
The researchers aimed to analyze whether there was any association between well-being and three biological markers: heart rate, cortisol levels, and plasma fibrinogen levels. The participants who rated themselves the least happy had cortisol levels that were 48% higher than those who rated themselves as the most happy.