What is it about?
Resilience has become a household word. In this paper, we clarify and distinguish between resilience and resiliency . We conceptualize resilience as a dynamic process by which an individual’s characteristics, abilities and, competencies combine to enable the individual to adapt, recover, and grow in response to challenging and/or threatening conditions; and resiliency as a constellation of traits associated with an individual’s capacity to adapt, recover, and grow in response to challenging and/or threatening conditions.
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Why is it important?
Distinguishing between resilience and resiliency is critical for advancing theory, research, and practice. It highlights the need to measures resilience directly and independently from significant adversity; and points to the need to identify, distinguish and measure those factors that influence resilience among individuals. Our paper strives to bring about a more integrated and theoretically parsimonious conceptualization of these terms to inform, influence and impact theory, research and practice on employee resilience.
Perspectives
This paper enhances our understanding of resilience and resiliency. It not only informs but serves to influence and impact theory, research and practice on employee resilience. It highlights the need to measure not only resilience but resiliency factors, independently. It also calls attention to the need to measure significant adversity and to consider contextual influences into theory, research and practice.
Dr Armando X Estrada
Temple University
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This page is a summary of: Elaborating on the Conceptual Underpinnings of Resilience, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, June 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/iop.2016.46.
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