Personal Characteristics Related to Resilience
You hear a lot about resilient people, but what are they really like? Who are the resilient? How do they act? What can you expect from them? How do you know one when you meet one? Are they real? Are they superheroes? Do they really exist? Just who are they?
This is a complicated question. There is no profile of a resilient person or a resilient personality. There are some common characteristics that resilient people share. These characteristics show up in infancy and continue until adulthood. It is also possible to display resilient characteristics in one phase of development and not in another. Some characteristics, such as sociability, are stable throughout all phases of development. Other characteristics, such as the ability to control feeding behavior, are more specific to one developmental phase or another. One thing that resilient people do share, however, is the fact that they have overcome extreme or chronic stress or adversity. You may notice these characteristics in other people, however, if they have not overcome extreme or chronic stress or adversity they are not resilient.