Those items come from fourteen different countries spanning the globe. They could be useful to parents and families wondering what they can do to support strengths. Can your child agree with most of those sentences? Then he or she would be considered resilient in the Civitan study.
If most of these items are true for an adult, they are also resilient, and probably good teachers of resilience.
Hope, faith, and love provide the foundation of these abilities and strengths. Mentalizing provides the willpower and waypower to use these abilities and strengths in coping with stress.
And that is one definition of resilience.