Personality
Resilience Theory
Also known as: Bounce-Back Resilience
Theory of resilience as the ability to bounce back or recover from stress, conceptualized as a trait-like quality reflecting adaptive coping capacity rather than the absence of adversity.
- Source:
- Smith, B. W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Steger, M., & Tooley, E. (2008). The Brief Resilience Scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 15(3), 194-200.
Constructs
Bounce-Back Resilience
The ability to recover from stress, adversity, or difficult life events — conceptualized as a trait-like capacity reflecting how quickly and effectively one returns to baseline functioning after being disrupted (Smith et al., 2008).
Instruments
- NOESIS Resilience Scale(NRS)NOESIS2026