This questionnaire from Cigna measures how resilient you are today and offers advice to help build your resilience for tomorrow.
Building greater resilience in America
The Cigna Resilience Index reveals that resilience – or our ability to quickly recover from challenges – is at risk in three in five Americans, and finds that there are simple ways to build resilience.
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How to build resilience: Grow Forth
Based on study findings, GROW FORTH: A Cigna Approach to Building Greater Resilience offers a new framework to help you G.R.O.W. in the face of challenges through four simple steps.
Cigna Resilience Index: 2020 U.S. Report
This in-depth report of the Cigna Resilience Index, the largest U.S. survey of resilience1, examines the ability of students, their parents and working adults to recover from challenges.
Learn more about the impacts of low resilience and ways to build resilience
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1 Largest U.S. survey of resilience using the CYRM and ARM scales
Did you know?
Young adults are most at risk for low levels of resilience
Young adults (ages 18-23) have the lowest levels of resilience of all age cohorts surveyed, with four out of five displaying lower propensity for resilience than the average adult. Low resilience is linked to worse performance at work and in the classroom, feelings of low self-worth and self-esteem and poor physical and mental health.
Exposure to diversity builds resilience
Children, young adults and parents with racial and socio-economically diverse communities and friendships are significantly more likely to be resilient. Additional factors that help build resilience are good physical and mental health, social connectivity and support, and access to resources.
Only 37 percent of full-time workers are considered highly resilient
Two thirds of full-time workers (63%) have low to moderate resilience levels. This has implications for business – low resilience is connected to low job satisfaction and performance, higher likelihood of turnover, and an inability to cope.
Technology has a role to play in building resilience
Using workplace technology (ex. video calls) plays a role in keeping workers engaged and is correlated to higher levels of resilience amongst working adults. Children who have regular, good-quality, affordable access to the internet are also more likely to be resilient.
We are here to help
Access to the right resources and the ability to navigate to them is key to maintaining and building resilience. Our resources expand services and support to help school communities, organizations and companies better care for individuals’ emotional and physical health during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
