Key points

Support from significant others plays a vital role in the development of resilience.

Resilience is the ability to withstand and recover from difficult conditions.

Resilience can be both fluid, changing with experiences, and stable, enhancing strength over time.

To explore and decide whether resilience is a choice or a trait, we will begin by presenting a number of definitions of resilience. This will then expand and examine whether resilience is fluid or solid.

This will also involve an examination that explores potential strategies for creating, building and strengthening resilience potential, which also includes the role of significant others in the life of an individual.

To begin with there is the research undertaken by Young (2014, p. 10) citing Soanes and Stevenson

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