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Mindfulness in Motion (MIM): An Onsite Mindfulness Based Intervention (MBI) for Chronically High Stress Work Environments to Increase Resiliency and Work Engagement
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2015
The Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) protocol offers a pragmatic Mindfulness Based Intervention (MBI) on-site, for persons working in chronically high-stress work environments that significantly increases resiliency and work engagement. The protocol has proven feasible, beneficial, and is easily adaptable to other high-stress workplaces.
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Assessing Disaster Resilience of Concrete with Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles
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2025
This protocol describes the assessment of whether applying titanium dioxide to concrete enhances its physical properties, thereby increasing its resistance to the effects of natural disasters caused by extreme events.
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Generating a Reproducible Model of Mid-Gestational Maternal Immune Activation using Poly(I:C) to Study Susceptibility and Resilience in Offspring
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2022
Maternal infection is a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders. Mouse models of maternal immune activation (MIA) may elucidate infection's impact on brain development and function. Here, general guidelines and a procedure are provided to produce reliably resilient and susceptible offspring exposed to MIA.
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Social Threat-Safety Test Uncovers Psychosocial Stress-Related Phenotypes
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2023
The social threat-safety test allows a simultaneous assessment of social avoidance development as a measurement of aversive conditioned learning and social threat-safety discrimination ability, both utilized to identify stress-susceptible and stress-resilient individuals within a single group of chronically socially defeated male mice.
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Osmoregulation in Insects
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2019
Malpighian tubules are specialized structures found in the digestive systems of many arthropods, including most insects, that handle excretion and osmoregulation. The tubules are typically arranged in pairs and have a convoluted structure that increases their surface area. Malpighian tubules extend from the digestive tract, typically the area between the midgut and hindgut, into the hemolymph—a mixture of blood and interstitial fluid found in insects and other arthropods, as well as most...
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Resilience develops through the interaction of personal characteristics, coping processes, emotional regulation, relationships, and environmental resources. These influences can support one another, so a person’s response reflects more than an isolated trait. The same individual may also show different adaptive patterns when available support, stressors, or life circumstances change.
Coping processes help people respond to stress, while emotional regulation supports psychological functioning during difficult experiences. Together, they can influence whether adversity produces persistent distress or a movement toward recovery and well-being. In psychological research, examining both processes clarifies how protective factors operate rather than treating resilience as a fixed personal quality.
People may encounter the same challenge but differ in coping processes, emotional regulation, supportive relationships, and access to environmental resources. These differences shape how adversity affects psychological functioning and recovery. Resilience therefore reflects an interaction between the person and surrounding conditions, helping explain variation in outcomes without assuming that one response is universally expected.
Yes. Because resilience develops through changing interactions among individual traits, coping, relationships, emotional regulation, and environmental resources, it is not fixed across a person’s life. Major life changes or shifts in support can alter adaptive capacity. This developmental perspective supports efforts to strengthen coping and protective conditions at different stages of life.
A broad psychological account considers individual traits alongside coping processes, emotional regulation, supportive relationships, and environmental resources. This multidimensional view helps researchers examine both personal and contextual influences on adaptation. It can also clarify why protective factors reduce distress for some people, support recovery for others, and contribute to well-being across varied circumstances.
Findings about resilience inform prevention programs and psychotherapy by identifying protective factors associated with reduced distress, recovery, and well-being. These applications focus on strengthening adaptive coping rather than assuming that resilience is an unchangeable characteristic. The same psychological insights can guide support for people facing stress, trauma, adversity, or major life changes.
Resilience research also informs education, workplace initiatives, and community interventions. In these settings, the emphasis is on supporting adaptive coping and strengthening conditions that help people respond to adversity. Applying the concept across environments recognizes that psychological functioning depends not only on individual characteristics but also on relationships and available environmental resources.