Psychological resilience is the capacity of individuals to adapt successfully to adversity, stress, trauma, or significant sources of threat, maintaining or recovering psychological functioning and wellbeing. It is understood not as a fixed trait but as a dynamic process emerging from the interaction of individual c…
Psychological resilience is the capacity of individuals to adapt successfully to adversity, stress, trauma, or significant sources of threat, maintaining or recovering psychological functioning and wellbeing. It is understood not as a fixed trait but as a dynamic process emerging from the interaction of individual characteristics, such as coping style, self-regulation, and dispositional mindfulness, with social and environmental resources including support networks and access to care. Resilience is associated with protective effects against depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, and is a focus of interventions aimed at strengthening coping and wellbeing in clinical and community populations. Peer-reviewed work relevant to this topic examines psychological wellbeing and suicidal ideation in nursing students, the relationship between materialistic aspirations and dimensions of wellbeing, psychological distress at the population level, mental stress in adolescents seeking asylum, coping strategies among people with multiple sclerosis during the pandemic, dispositional mindfulness and perceived stress in cancer survivorship, and cognitive and psychological responses to chronic illness and trauma. These contributions span clinical and health psychology, psychiatry, and behavioural science, addressing the determinants of resilience and coping and the interventions that support adaptation to adversity across diverse populations, an area in which the journal publishes peer-reviewed research bearing on psychological wellbeing.
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The 12 articles above have been cited 35 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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