[Learn through Manga] Resilience of the Heart / How to stand up again and again without losing to harsh reality

・This time, we covered the resilience research of Emmy Werner and Ann Masten.
・Even today, there is no unified definition for the word resilience. Some perspectives view resilience as an "individual ability," while others see it as a "state," a "process of recovery," or an "interaction with the environment."

・This is by no means a story about how it is "good" not to have problems by age 18, or "bad" to have had them.
・There is also debate regarding the criteria used to judge "adaptation" or "problems." The story changes depending on which indicators are prioritized, such as school grades, work, interpersonal relationships, criminal records, mental health, or subjective well-being. This point is extremely important.
・In this manga, we mainly focused on children up to around the age of 18. However, in the actual Kauai study, long-term follow-ups were conducted thereafter. Many cases have been reported where people who had problems by age 18 recovered after reaching adulthood. It is suggested that turning points in life and points of contact with new environments—such as marriage, employment, the military, community, religion, and interpersonal relationships—were involved in these changes.