What is stress resilience?
Stress resilience is the ability to deal with stressful situations successfully. The greater your stress resilience, the greater your ability to handle stressful events. You can think of stress resilience as being like stress fitness. With stress resilience you can experience stressful events without the wear and tear that pressures and demands can sometimes bring. People demonstrate stress resilience when they respond to demanding situations with the “right” level of energy and activation to meet the demand but without the negative signs of distress, such as worry and anxiety. Individuals with stress resilience are effective in stressful conditions. What is stress management? In a broad context, stress management is part of health promotion. Strategies in health promotion include stress management, nutrition, and exercise. Stress management is the psychological part of health promotion. Stress management involves learning how to regulate the stress response in the body. Typically, the
