Resilience is an emergent group process, not a pre-existing personality trait.

Evidence

In summary, derived from basic principles of self-categorisation theory, the London bombs study suggested that shared social identity is the psychological mechanism operating between common fate (understood as an example of comparative fit; Turner, 1981) and collectively resilient behaviours. The ‘resilience’ concept was commonly in use in psychiatrically oriented research on disasters, where it was typically treated as a personal disposition (NATO, 2009). By contrast to this notion of personal resilience as a pre-existing capacity of individuals, the social identity model focused on collective resilience as an emergent process located in the emergency itself (Williams & Drury, 2009; Ntontis et al., 2018, 2019). — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 21

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the core shift in meaning of ‘resilience’ that the social identity program introduced.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s ongoing critique of individualizing framings across topics (cf. Deep Listening and mental approaches elsewhere in reading). — connects to: Coordinated evacuation depends on organisation, not on the absence of emotion. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 83

Related

• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.85)
• Collective resilience theory now yields practical guidance for disaster practitioners. (similarity 0.85)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.82)
• A shared identity can emerge within a crowd only after an emergency begins. (similarity 0.82)
• Mass emergency behaviour stems from social identity, not panic or irrationality (similarity 0.81)
• People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. (similarity 0.81)
• Individualist cultures may show more flexible, context-driven identity in emergencies (similarity 0.81)
• Emergency responders should deliberately cultivate shared identity with survivors. (similarity 0.81)
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers. (similarity 0.80)
• Shared identity can emerge rapidly during, not before, an emergency. (similarity 0.80)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.80)
• John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis — A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE IN EMERGENT GROUPS (similarity 0.80)
• London bomb survivors formed solidarity with strangers within minutes of the blast. (similarity 0.80)
• The emergency itself, not an outgroup, can define group boundaries (similarity 0.80)
• The solidarity model extends beyond disasters to political violence and repression. (similarity 0.79)