Resilience as a student
- Resilience as a student
What is resilience?
Resilience is the quality of being able to withstand times of difficulty or change in such ways that you can either cope reasonably at the time or bounce back afterwards. It isn’t that you never feel stressed, disappointed of out of your depth: it is about developing sufficient inner resources to get through and to keep going. There will be times as a student when resilience will be of real benefit.
How resilience contributes to success
* It helps you manage when things get tough.
* It gives you the experience of recovering firm setbacks and of coping.
* It builds your confidence that you can cope, even if everything seems to be going wrong.
* It gives you confidence to take risks, take part, and to take on new challenges.
Resilience helps you as a student when:
* you are experiencing a lot of change: new environments, people, expectations, ways of thinking
* there are challenges and pressures: emotional, financial, academic
* there are many demands to juggle at once: work, study, family, friends
* things don’t go as planned: grades lower than you expected; not getting a job you wanted; relationship ending
* you feel down or want to give up on your studies
Reflection: Resilience as a student
What kinds of situations or issues arise for you as a student where you feel it would help to develop greater resilience?
Rate you resilience
Below is a list of behaviors associated with resilience. Consider your own resilience by rating yourself for each. Use a 5 point scale, where 5 is a high level of resilience.
How resilient am I?
I can bounce back from knocks.
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I look for solutions that help me to solve problems.
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3 I can keep a sense of perspective or can bring things back into perspective.
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4 I can manage stress and keep myself calm.
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5 I use support and guidance available.
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6 I use my time effectively .. to help me stay on top of all I have to do.
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7 I use a routine … to keep myself on track even when I don’t feel like it.
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8 I keep myself motivated and am effective in encouraging myself to study.
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9 I persevere, even when I don’t feel like studying or staying on the course.
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10 I build and maintain relationships with others, for mutual support and to enrich my life.
Reflection: Personal resilience
* When am I at my most resilient in life?
* What enables me to be resilient in those contexts?
* How can I draw on those qualities to help me as a student?
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