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  • Resilience is typically viewed as a successful outcome of maintaining well-being under duress.
  • An alternative perspective frames resilience as an ability linked to emotional intelligence.

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  • To propose and model resilience as an emotional-intelligence-related ability.
  • To outline the cognitive and emotional mechanisms underlying this resilience ability.

Main Methods:

  • Formulation of an allostatic active inference model.
  • The model integrates concepts of well-being monitoring, belief updating, and action prioritization.

Main Results:

  • The model identifies key components of resilience ability: monitoring well-being, stable well-being beliefs, updated situational beliefs, and flexible action prioritization.
  • It explains the role of positive emotions and regulatory flexibility in maintaining well-being.

Conclusions:

  • Resilience can be conceptualized as an active ability rather than solely an outcome.
  • This model provides a framework for assessing resilience as an ability and understanding its underlying mechanisms.