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Image credits: Suzy Hoskins The Los Angeles wildfires have once again highlighted just how vulnerable human beings are to climate change.Experts have long warned that global warming leads to an ...
"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better." [1] The concept has now been applied to ecosystems in a rigorous way. [17] In their work, the authors review the concept of ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach.
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.
Resilience should be a choice, not something forced upon us. Yet here in New Orleans, it’s continually imposed—not for the well-being of its people, but for the sake of business.
The most frequently used are the Personal Views Survey, [37] the Dispositional Resilience Scale, [38] and the Cognitive Hardiness Scale. [39] Other scales based on hardiness theory have been designed to measure hardiness in specific contexts and in special populations, for example parental grief and among the chronically ill.
Emi Perry struggled to accept her new identity as a para athlete, but resilience kept her in the sport until she reached Paralympic status. This athlete lost the use of her legs 7 years ago. How ...
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]
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