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Legal hopes: enhancing resilience through the external cultivation of positive emotions

“…Supportive relationships and higher levels of self-esteem, for example, have consistently been correlated with resilience. 26 Recurrent positive emotions play a major role in developing and restoring these interpersonal resources; they also contribute to the building and sustaining of physical resources, such as health and energy, and mental resources, such as motivation and attentional focus. 27 These valuable contributions of the positive emotions to resilience suggest the need for interventions that can increase positive affect.…”

“…These may be material resources, or experience with navigating institutions, or social network-based support. 41 Yet another theme in the resilience literature correlates with the element of 'solidarity' in our framework. Forms of interpersonal connection, such as responsive parenting and effective mentorship, are critical in the developmental literature on resilience; 42 connection with others is both required for and enhanced by the broaden-and-build framework of positive emotions.…”

“…The contribution of self-efficacy to resilience in the face of adversity is a point made across the various psychological literatures. 44 It is correlated with greater resilience among children who experience disadvantage, 45 contributes to adult capacity to cope with trauma 46 and is regarded in some work as a critical resource in coping. 47 Our work reflects the additional 'dual process' insight that agency may be fostered both through cognitive reappraisal and through habituation.…”