Emotional Resilience Is a Process, Study Confirms

Resilience is often encouraged, especially during times of difficulty. Unfortunately, that may be more challenging than expected, as a recently published study in Group & Organization Management found that resilience is a dynamic process, rather than a fixed human characteristic.1

Protecting your emotional resilience by practicing emotional regulation, boundary setting, and mindfulness will all help to avoid burnout and emotional exhaustion.

These recommendations are especially important, as equity-seeking groups are often praised for their resilience by those who possess relatively more power given how much easier it is to do that than to tackle pervasive systemic oppression regarding race and gender.

Key Takeaways
Resilience is a dynamic process, and newcomers to an organization demonstrated more resilience than those who had been there longer.
People with greater emotional stability were better able to maintain commitment levels to the organization over time.
Retention was associated with commitment in terms of planning to return for another season and following through on that.