RESILIENCE

As a citizen of the 21st century,
you should be able to

 
  • Learn from your mistakes and keep trying.

  • Develop skills to handle and overcome tough situations.

  • Build and maintain a support network of friends and family.

  • Be able to cope with stress and recover from setbacks.

  • Keep believing in yourself and staying optimistic.

  • Have self-respect, discipline, and courage to tackle challenges.

  • Be willing to face new experiences with confidence and a positive attitude.

RESILIENCE ACCEPTANCE OF SELF AND LIFE PERSONAL COMPETENCE
Competence
Area
Skills
  • Ability to depend on yourself more than anyone and to be on your own if you have to
  • Ability to persevere and be determined to accomplish things
  • Ability to manage, get through difficult times and find a way out, following through with plans
  • Ability to believe that you have control over the outcomes or events in your live
  • Ability to find effective and convenient ways to overcome difficulties (resourcefulness)
  • Ability to maintain yourself optimistic and courageous in the face of adversity
  • Ability to maintain good and positive relationships, to keep effective social interactions, and to build social networks
  • Ability to hold a prosocial behaviour (i.e. being altruistic, generous)
  • Ability to belief in yourself (self-confidence), your capabilities (self-reliance), and to recognize your strengths and limitations
  • Ability to value yourself (self-esteem), have a positive perception of yourself, and find pride in the things you have accomplished
  • Ability to regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behavior (self-regulation)
  • Ability to hold a balanced perspective of your life and experience
  • Ability to adapt to change, to deal with uncertainty and stressful situations (active coping), and to have a sense of peace
  • Ability to develop a sense of belonging (cohesion) and be part of a culture (adherence)
  • Ability to develop a moral compass: spiritual or religious beliefs that give meaning to life
  • Creating of a strategy, theory, method, or argument based on a synthesis of evidence
  • Creating an argument that goes beyond available information
  • Synthesis, dialectic debating, designing, planning
  • Computational thinking: abstractions and pattern generalizations; systematic processing of information; symbol systems and representations; algorithmic notions of flow of control; structured problem decomposition (modularizing); iterative, recursive, and parallel thinking; conditional logic; efficiency and performance constraints; debugging and systematic error detection
  • Judging the quality of content, information, procedures or solutions
  • Being able to criticize a work product with respect to their credibility, relevance, and bias using a set of standards or specific framework
  • Criticism, auditing, appraisal, authentication

Sources: Based on a review of existing frameworks
(Wagnild & Young, 1993; Connor, 2006; Wu, Feder, Cohen, Kim, Calderon, Charney & Mathé, 2013; Ungar and Liebenberg, 2011).

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