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Social factors
Resilience depends not only on the individual and the characteristics they possess, but it is also influenced by the social context to which they belong. In particular, individuals who are well integrated into their social context and / or who receive adequate support from it have a greater probability to overcome adverse events successfully.
Relational factors
In addition to depending on individual and social factors, the development of resilience is also correlated to the quality of the relationships built up by the person, both before and after the negative or traumatic event. In addition to the quality of the relationships established, also the support - practical and emotional - provided by family and friends appears to be important in the resilient response.
Curiosity
In implementing resilience mechanisms, children seem to be more advantaged. This is because, usually, they are able to carry out more profound changes and adaptations than adults, often hampered by their baggage of past experiences and the conception that they have the environment and the people around them.
In support of this, several psychological studies have shown how children victims of violent trauma are able to adapt and react, growing up and coming to structure a healthy personality and a life characterized by stable relationships and also by successes both at school and at work.
it should have evolved into an integral part of the individual's attitude. However, the ability to implement resilience depends very much on the conception that individuals have of themselves, of the world and of the people around them. In fact, if for some people the resilient response to negative events is activated almost automatically, for other individuals the resilience mechanisms are not put into practice due to the low opinion that one has of oneself ("I am a failure", "not I succeed ", etc.), due to the consideration that one has of others (" others succeed and I do not "," others are better ", etc.) and because of the conception that one has of the surrounding environment, often seen as a dangerous, unpredictable and full of pitfalls and problems.
To implement resilience it is therefore necessary to change the conception of oneself, of others and of the world. This does not mean taking an excessively - and perhaps even naively - optimistic attitude, but it does mean maintaining a realistic attitude that allows you to adapt to reality in a conscious way. This adaptation should be carried out in such a way as to consider negative and traumatic events as opportunities to be exploited and from which to draw useful insights for one's growth and to improve one's life and not as threats under which to succumb.
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Some specialists in the sector recommend the practice of Mindfulness (from the English awareness) to promote resilience. This practice consists in developing the ability to concentrate in the present and to "detach" from one's thoughts, observing them without judging them, but considering them only for what they are, ie products of one's own mind. In this regard, it is very interesting to note that the practice of mindfulness derives from the meditation techniques used in Buddhism.
In any case, despite what has been said so far, it should be pointed out that the interventions necessary for the development and implementation of resilience can vary from individual to individual, as they are closely related to the situation, environment and social context in which one lives. The skills and factors necessary to overcome a certain type of negative event, in fact, may be different from those necessary to overcome another type of negative event (for example, diagnosis of a tumor and natural catastrophe).
