Review
Understanding resilience through
its associated concepts
Maidaniuc-Chirilă Teodora
Abstract
Resilience is understood as
being a person’s ability to
stand up and positively
adapt to stress and
adversity, so many
researchers have been
studying it as a process, a
continuum, a phase and a
personality trait. Until now
there is no clear image of
what is resilience, how can
it be seen and studied. The
aim of the present article
is to review the scientific
literature in order to offer
a better understanding of
the psychological resilience
process through the concepts
used to describe the
phenomenon. In a first
phase, the article presents
a series of definitions of
the resilience concept from
a historical perspective and
in a second phase it
presents resilience’s
associated concepts of
resilience used to describe
the resilience phenomenon.
The article presents also
the resilience process
across different phases in
an individual’s life and in
an organizational context so
that this article has
important implications for
human resources employees
when they want to increase
employees’ resilience
through efficient training
programs.
Key words: Psychological
resilience,
historical perspective,
optimism,
self-trust, workplace
resilience.
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