What is resilience and what are the types of resilience?

Resilience is a generic term that refers to the ability to adapt to life changes. It can be seen as the survival instinct of living beings.

There are many forms of resilience, and it is important to recognize the difference between them, because you will be able to develop one or another to better suit the situation at hand.

We can define resilience as the ability to recover from or adapt to pressure, adversity, stressful or traumatic events.

Types of Resilience

1. Physical Resilience

The ability to cope and manage stress in a healthy way, improve wellness, and deal with health conditions. 

2. Emotional Resilience

This refers to the ability of an organism to withstand stress and live a normal life, despite the effect it has on the mind.

It involves the capacity to regulate emotions, to avoid situations that are highly stressful and to manage feelings, which are often associated with events that have occurred.

3. Spiritual Resilience

This refers to the ability to deal with difficult situations by accepting them or to face them with optimism.

It involves the capacity to recognize the good and the bad, to endure suffering and to seek a solution.

4. Social Resilience

This refers to the ability to overcome threats and difficulties, by avoiding situations that provoke conflicts, by adapting to the views of others and by being able to make contacts with the different social classes.

It involves the capacity to live in harmony with others. This refers to the ability of an individual or a group to overcome challenges, to respond and to adapt to the environment.

It involves the ability to work with others to achieve a common goal.

5. Cognitive Resilience

This refers to the ability of an individual to avoid situations that cause anxiety and fear, to recognize what happens in life, to use their mind and to make rational decisions.

It involves the capacity to adapt to a situation, to recognize opportunities and to use resources efficiently.

6. Psychological Resilience

This refers to the capacity to tolerate difficult situations and to adapt to the environment, to a person, or to a situation.

It is related to the personality of the individual, and it is the ability to accept an unfamiliar situation.

7. Behavioral Resilience

This refers to the ability of an individual to recognize what occurs in his/her life, to accept the consequences of his/her actions and to change accordingly.

It involves behavior, such as the ability to adapt to new situations, the capacity to learn and the ability to change.

8. Organizational Resilience

This refers to the ability of a group of individuals to deal with stressful situations, to overcome difficulties and to adapt to the environment.

It involves the ability to evaluate and analyze a situation, to plan, to follow the process and to reach a goal.

10. Cultural Resilience

This refers to the ability of an individual or a group to adapt to the environment, to develop in the future and to maintain a sense of collective identity.

It involves the ability of individuals to accept and accept their differences and to live together in the same environment.