resilience

Examples of resilience in the following topics:

• Ecosystem Dynamics

  • Ecosystems are controlled both by external and internal factors; they can be both resistant or resilient to ecosystem disturbances.
  • In ecology, two parameters are used to measure changes in ecosystems: resistance and resilience.
  • Resilience is the speed at which an ecosystem recovers to equilibrium after being disturbed.
  • Humans may impact the nature of an ecosystem to such a degree that the ecosystem can lose its resilience entirely.
  • In this example, the forests became less and less resilient over time until the fundamental system equilibrium had changed.

• Mental Health

  • From the perspective of "positive psychology" or "holism," mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to demonstrate psychological resilience when confronted with challenges.
  • What counts as healthy enjoyment and resilience depends upon one's class perspective.

• A Revisionist Theory of Conceptual Change: A Holistic View

  • Researchers have found that learners' preconceptions can be extremely resilient and resistant to change, as demonstrated in Heather's story from the A Private Universe.

• Building Support for Intrapreneurship

  • Organizations have great momentum and are, in most cases, inherently resilient to change.

• Leadership

  • They can persuade and influence, and they show resilience and persistence.

• Providing National Security

  • ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure; using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information;

• Ethics Training

  • The ability to think through moral issues and dilemmas, then, requires an awareness of a set of moral and ethical values; the capacity to think objectively and rationally about what may be an emotional issue; the willingness to take a stand for what is right, even in the face of opposition; and the fortitude and resilience to maintain one's ethical and moral standards.

• Introduction to Stress

  • For example, traumatic social events may cause great distress, but also eustress in the form of resilience, coping, and fostering a sense of community.

• Personality Characteristics Beneficial to Change

  • Optimists are more likely to stick with goals despite setbacks, face problems head-on, and remain resilient in the instance of defeat.

• Defining Psychology

  • Psychology explores concepts such as perception, cognition, attention, emotion, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, resilience, the unconscious mind, and interpersonal relationships.