Turkey entered a stormy period that started with the coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Due to the limitations imposed by the presidential system, the pandemic, the earthquake, the successive general elections and hyperinflation, society as a whole is tired, weary and pessimistic about the future. People who do not know each other on the street easily resort to violence for very simple reasons, and conflicts resulting in deaths are occurring.
In the World Happiness Survey conducted by the Gallup Institute every year, Turkey ranks among the bottom ten countries in positive parameters such as rest, respect, laughter, learning and having fun, and among the top ten countries in negative parameters such as pain and suffering, anxiety, sadness, stress and anger. Perhaps partly as a result of this, every day we are shocked by the news of violence that we are not used to seeing on the streets. However, some people who live in similar conditions continue their lives without complaining about these feelings. The topic of this article is to help you realize to what extent you have the characteristics of these people with psychological resilience.
Psychological resilience helps to cope with the disappointment of negative feedback and to take on challenges and obstacles. Psychological resilience provides a positive and meaningful approach to solving problems and activates the motivation and mental processes that will make the person successful. Seligman focused his approach on the positive aspects of human beings such as creativity, hope, courage, wisdom and responsibility. The basis of Seligman’s approach is to focus on the positive and the good, based on the characteristics we have listed, instead of focusing on mistakes, flaws and wrongs in people and on what is wrong in society. Thus, it is believed that it is possible to create happier and more effective people, efficient organizations and a better functioning society.
According to Luthans and his colleagues, a person with strong psychological resilienc