Why Is Resilience So Important?

Life is full of challenges, but it gives people the ability to fulfill inner purpose even if struggles occur. Like unemployed graduates, they encounter numerous adverse situations at home, in searching for a job or their chosen field. Because of this, people like them should know their capacity to deal with the adversities of their lives.
According to Brunkhorst, adversities are a part of living, and people choose the way they react to each adversity in their lives. Many times it will be senseless, unfair, painful, and beyond one’s control to prevent. However, it comes into one’s lives for a reason. Individual can choose to learn valuable lessons from each adversity they encounter. The more difficult the adversity, the more valuable will be the lessons it offers.
At present, many things have improved: lifestyle, technology, entertainment, infrastructures and the like.
Worrying about the things which modern technology can’t improve like people’s feelings and emotions, specifically the coping with the rapid changes around us that affect our personal well-being and also with the adversities resulting in trauma and other worse cases. This is why resilience is very important in today’s world because resiliency means being able to bounce back from life adversities. As resilient people have their lives disrupted they handle their feelings in healthy ways. They allow themselves to feel grief, anger, loss, and confusion when hurt and distressed, but they don't let it become a permanent feeling state. An unexpected outcome is that they not only heal, they often bounce back stronger than before. (G.M. Wagnild& H.M. Young). As Masten, Best, and Garmezy (1990) stated, resiliency is the process of, capacity for or outcome of a successful adaptation despite a challenging or threatening
circumstances.
Resiliency is very much needed for people to handle major difficulties, one of which is the increasing number of unemployed graduates. It has been shown that unemployment has an extreme impact on the life of an unemployed individual and considered to be one of the primary sources of adversity in the life of young adult in terms of pursuing goals in order to have a better future. Dr. Paul Stoltz (1997) conducted a study about Adversity Quotient, which measures a person’s response to adversity and at the same time his/her resilience to unexpected or traumatic experience. AQ deals with a person’s resilience or act of overcoming problems in life, work and relationship even when it gets tough. Since people are naturally resilient, they have the great potential to bounce from setbacks that may occur and start anew. With Adversity Quotient, we can now measure people’s resilience just like how we measure emotion and intelligence which will greatly help further improved the manner that one can give to people who have experienced adversities in life. This research will help the readers to realize and know the significance of resiliency not only in terms of job seeking but also in many aspects of life: although resiliency will not prevent challenges from coming your way, it will help you to be prepared mentally for whatever comes your way. Now, we can take into account that Resilience and Adversity Quotient are correlated with each other. Hence, this study aims to know the relationship of Resilience and AQ level of unemployed graduates.