ABSTRACT
The term "resilience" comes from Latin. The verb resilere means to bounce back. The concept of resilience was originally applied solely to children who had managed to emerge from difficult conditions—such as war, displacement, domestic violence, poverty, crime or their parents' drug abuse—psychologically healthy and, in terms of their social behaviour, to develop positively. The concept of resilience focused on the protective factors which enabled children to remain mentally healthy, even under such difficult circumstances. Fire model helps managers to develop or practise strategies for maintaining resilience, so that they are better able to withstand difficult situations or crises and, ideally, even come out of them feeling stronger. Of all spheres of resilience, the personality sphere is the one that is the most difficult to influence. The combined findings by Aaron Antonovsky, Emmy Werner, Friedrich Loesel and co. provide a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research being conducted on the factors that help to improve inner resilience.
