Resilience as the Ability to Maintain Well-Being: An Allostatic Active Inference Model
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Resilience as an Ability
3. Well-Being Maintenance
Assessing Well-Being Maintenance
4. Resilience Tools to Maintain Well-Being: An Allostatic Active Inference Model
4.1. Assessment of the Active Inference Model: Well-Being Beliefs and Forecasts
4.2. Assessment of Active Inference Model: Attentional Control and Updating
4.3. Assessment of Active Inference Model: Computational Modeling
5. Resilience Tools to Maintain Well-Being: Regulatory Flexibility
Assessment of Regulatory Flexibility
6. Resilience Tools to Maintain Well-Being: Positive Emotion as a Special Case
Assessment of Positive Emotions during Stress
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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