Emotion and Resilience

The importance of resilience in our world today is a practice that many have forgotten. Resilience is a practice that gives an individual a sense of hope to their lives. Whether they are experiencing depression or just stress from work, resilience gives us positive emotions. It helps us adapt to new situations and function in a world filled with chaos and stress. By practicing resilience in our daily lives we are able to have confidence and determination to handle more intense situations, have high levels of hope, and have more emotional regulation.
The process of adaption in a stressful situation is very important when practicing resilience. For some individuals practicing resilience comes from personality traits such as having self-esteem, very well developed planning skills, well managed temperament, a support network outside the family, and mental flexibility. These types of traits are also known as a person with ego-resilience. These types of people are able to adapt in stressful situations for their optimism and ability to conceptualize problems. These characteristics are known as protective factors. Everyone in society have protective factors, but very few are able to manage them during stressful situations or mental agitation. Within time these protective factors become more practical when we go through exposures of traumatic situations during our lifetime.
A theoretical model of resilience developed by author David Fletcher is the meta-model of stress, emotions and performance. Essentially, the model views stressors as being part of the environment a person operates in which is then mediated by how people perceive, appraise and cope with stress. How people respond to stress can be either positive or negative in terms of emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Moderating factors that can help how we respond are all associated with resilience and can act at different stages in the process. Not only does resilience help people regard stress in a positive