The development of concepts of the resilience phenomenon in foreign psychology

Authors

  • Olga N. Verbitskaya Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Galina A. Fofanova Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

resilience, resilience concepts, four waves of resilience research
Supporting Agencies
The authors express their gratitude to doctor of science (philology), professor D. I. Ermolovich for his advisory assistance in the correct transliteration of the term resilience.

Abstract

The article presents the results of an analysis of international scientific research on psychological resilience. Four waves of research on this phenomenon are identified. The first wave was phenomenological in nature, with scientists seeking to identify the specific characteristics of resilient individuals. In the second wave of research, scientists focused on the influence of environmental factors on individual resilience. The third wave was a period of intervention studies and experimental interventions aimed at exploring ways to enhance resilience. During the fourth wave, psychologists examined resilience as a multi-layered phenomenon, the study of which involves interaction between psychology and other fields of scientific knowledge.

Author Biographies

  • Olga N. Verbitskaya, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    postgraduate student at the department of general and medical psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Galina A. Fofanova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (psychology), docent; associate professor at the department of social and organisational psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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2025-10-29

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No. 3 (2025): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

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Verbitskaya, O.N. and Fofanova, G.A. 2025. The development of concepts of the resilience phenomenon in foreign psychology. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 3 (Oct. 2025), 70–78.