Resilience, according to the paradigm of the development along the life (life-span)

Abstract

Resilience, in the approach of the development along the life, refers to the capacity of recovering and maintenance of the adaptive behavior when the person feels threatened by any distressing event (Staudinger, Marsiske and Baltes, 1995). Although the losses become more likely than the developed gains, the aged people can present considerable stability, self-esteem, competence, self-efficacy, subjective quality of life. The resilience is based on active protecting resources along the life: mechanisms of self-regulation, self-efficacy, emotional regulation, mechanisms of stress oping, selection strategies, optimization and compensation of the domains of human functioning. At the end of the article, interventions to increase the resilience of the aged are suggested