title: Resilience is more about being flexible than about staying positive.
abstract: Kalisch et al. propose a positive appraisal style as the key mechanism that underlies resilience. The present authors suggest that flexibility in emotion processing is more conducive to resilience than a general positivity bias. People may achieve emotional flexibility through counter-regulation - a dynamic processing bias toward positive stimuli in negative contexts and negative stimuli in positive contexts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology,VU University Amsterdam,1081 BT Amsterdam,The Netherlandss.l.koole@vu.nlhttp://emotionregulationlab.com/?page_id=45.
authors.forename: Sander L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Koole
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychosoziale Medizin und Psychosomatik,Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,D-07740 Jena,Germany.susanne.schwager@med.uni-jena.deklaus.rothermund@uni-jena.dehttp://www.mpsy.uniklinikum-jena.de/Mitarbeiter/Susanne+Schwager.htmlhttp://www2.uni-jena.de/svw/allgpsy2/index.php?page=staff&id=rothermund&detail=allg.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schwager
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychosoziale Medizin und Psychosomatik,Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,D-07740 Jena,Germany.susanne.schwager@med.uni-jena.deklaus.rothermund@uni-jena.dehttp://www.mpsy.uniklinikum-jena.de/Mitarbeiter/Susanne+Schwager.htmlhttp://www2.uni-jena.de/svw/allgpsy2/index.php?page=staff&id=rothermund&detail=allg.
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rothermund
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans