"Resilience is the capacity to respond to adversity in ways that allow you to adapt and continue moving forward. When most people think of resilience, they assume it means staying calm, positive, or unbothered in the face of stress. But, resilience isn't about being immune to negative emotions. It's more about how you respond when those emotions show up. From a personality perspective, resilience is closely tied to neuroticism, the trait that reflects how strongly and how often you experience emotions like anxiety, sadness, guilt,"
"When faced with stressful or even traumatic experiences, many people believe the key to resilience is pushing away any uncomfortable feelings that come up. They think that if they let any emotion in, the floodgates will open and they'll spiral. Strategies to avoid emotional experiences can look like: Keeping busy. Filling every moment with work or other responsibilities to avoid slowing down enough to feel what's coming up."
Resilience is the capacity to respond to adversity in ways that allow adaptation and continued forward movement. Resilience is not immunity to negative emotions; it centers on responses when emotions arise. Neuroticism influences resilience by increasing the intensity and frequency of emotions such as anxiety, sadness, guilt, and frustration, which can make coping more effortful. Emotional sensitivity can coexist with effective adaptation. Common avoidance strategies—keeping busy, distraction and numbing, avoiding triggering situations, and over-preparing—reduce resilience by preventing processing and increasing distress; learning to accept emotions strengthens resilience.
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