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Your Resilience Quiz

Resilience is the ability to recover or bounce back from and effectively adapt to life changes and challenges.

Anyone can strengthen their resiliency. Celebrate the resilient aspects you have in place and take action to improve the rest.

Score your resilience and take action to better flourish and thrive.

Score Your Resilience

Although this quiz is based on resilience research, neither it nor the scores have been formally validated. It is intended to provide basic information to serve you; so you have the tools to move from Woe to WOW!

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Category: Attend to Your Body

I recognize when my body is feeling distress.

2 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Body

I routinely exercise.

3 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Body

I eat a wholesome diet.

4 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Body

I get adequate rest.

5 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Body

I deliberately relax my body when I realize it is in distress.

6 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Feelings and Thoughts

I take charge of my thoughts in stressful situations.

7 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Feelings and Thoughts

I minimize my critical self-talk and increase my supportive self-talk.

8 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Feelings and Thoughts

I accept my feelings as is and use them as a personal gauge.

9 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Feelings and Thoughts

I know and use my strengths—at work, play and service.

10 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Feelings and Thoughts

I accept life’s contradictions and ambiguities.

11 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Communication

I change negative comments into positive phrasing.

12 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Communication

I listen to others and communicate clearly my position.

13 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Communication

I work towards finding a mutual agreement in conflicts.

14 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Communication

I minimize my criticism of others while offering helpful feedback.

15 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Communication

I assert myself by saying “yes, no or I will think it over.”

16 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Social Support

I feel close and connected to significant others.

17 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Social Support

I give and receive help, support and listening time at home and work.

18 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Social Support

I express appreciation to others at home and work.

19 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Social Support

I encourage and act as a team cheer leader at home and work.

20 / 25

Category: Attend to Your Social Support

I make amends when I cause harm or inconvenience and am able to forgive others when they harm or inconvenience me.

21 / 25

Category: Attend to Giving Your Life Meaning

I learn and give meaning to mistakes, hurts and disappointments.

22 / 25

Category: Attend to Giving Your Life Meaning

I view work, relationships and life with realistic optimism.

23 / 25

Category: Attend to Giving Your Life Meaning

I set and meet realistic goals and expectations.

24 / 25

Category: Attend to Giving Your Life Meaning

I laugh at myself while taking my responsibilities seriously.

25 / 25

Category: Attend to Giving Your Life Meaning

I find purpose, optimism, pleasure, gratitude and meaning in my life.

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