🛡️ Brief Resilience Scale

Resilience refers to an individual's or organisation's ability to bounce back and overcome difficulties when faced with stress, adversity, disasters, or change. Resilience gives us the ability to stay positive amid unfavourable situations, and subsequently find a way out of it.

Your perceived resilience is average, indicating that you believe your ability to cope with setbacks and stress is similar to that of the general population. Resilience is a dynamic quality that can be cultivated and strengthened over time. Reflecting on the factors influencing your resilience perception is a crucial step in understanding areas where you excel and areas for improvement.

How to increase resilience

Research has shown several methods to enhance resilience. Exercise, for instance, improves the body's ability to regulate stress, reducing emotional strain and enhancing positive emotions and happiness. Regular physical activity benefits not only physical health but also mental well-being.

Having a stable and reliable support circle is another effective way to boost resilience. Emotional support and problem-solving assistance from friends, family, or romantic partners make it easier to face adversity.

Learning and adopting a growth mindset is crucial. A growth mindset seeks progress, challenges, and the improvement of one's abilities, helping you adapt well to setbacks and view failures as opportunities for growth and learning. Recognising that you can grow and progress means you can face challenges without the fear of continuous failure.

Lastly, cultivating positive emotions can contribute to resilience. Positive emotions broaden our thinking and expose us to more possibilities, allowing us to build long-term resources. Actively reflecting on positive aspects in your life, documenting them, or sharing them with others can help you maintain a positive state and gradually build resources to enhance resilience.

Have you recognised any of these methods in your everyday life? And would you like to try out some of them if you are not currently practicing them? You are welcome to mark them down or discuss them with ForestMind.