resilience
Biology
(noun)
the speed with which an ecosystem returns to its initial state after a disturbance
Psychology
(noun)
The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
Examples of resilience in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Building Support for Intrapreneurship
- Organizations have great momentum and are, in most cases, inherently resilient to change.
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Leadership
- They can persuade and influence, and they show resilience and persistence.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Defining Psychology
- Psychology explores concepts such as perception, cognition, attention, emotion, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, resilience, the unconscious mind, and interpersonal relationships.