Available online 10 November 2008 Resilience has been conceptualized in several ways, including a disposition that promotes positive outcomes in general and successful adaptation in the face of challenging or stressful circumstances. Using Wagnild and Young's [Wagnild, G. M., & Young, H. M. (1993). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. Journal of Nursing Measurement, ...

Resilience has emerged as a policy response in an era of public concern about disasters and risks that include fear of terrorism and environmental or economic catastrophe. Resilience is both a refreshing and a problematic concept. It is refreshing in that it creates new opportunities for interdisciplinary research and vividly reminds us that the material world matters in our social lives, polit...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: Nursing profession is physically and emotionally demanding Purpose: To determine the relationship between coping strategies and resilience, as well as perceived stress among nurses. Materials and methods: The study included 173 nurses from Świętokrzyskie province. Examination material was co...

AIM This paper is a report of a literature review to explore the concept of personal resilience as a strategy for responding to workplace adversity and to identify strategies to enhance personal resilience in nurses. BACKGROUND Workplace adversity in nursing is associated with excessive workloads, lack of autonomy, bullying and violence and organizational issues such as restructuring, and has...

Why do some people get sick, and others do not? This basic question, of vulnerability and resilience, is of crucial importance in physical and mental health research. Determining factors that impart resilience, or contribute to vulnerability, could be a turning point in our fundamental understanding of disease. This collection explores current data on the role of two systems that seem indispens...

Recent years have seen the world become a closely connected society with the emergence of different types of social networks. Online social networks have provided a way to bridge long distances and establish numerous communication channels which were not possible earlier. These networks exhibit interesting behavior under intentional attacks and random failures where different structural propert...

EntREsilience, a five-country longitudinal qualitative study, was launched in 2020 China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and UK to understand how entrepreneurs manifested resilience response COVID-19 pandemic crisis events from March February 2022. EntREsilience proposed resilience-manifestation process model describing responded disruption, aided by external internal enablers, adjusting t...