Resilience, Mindfulness and Flourishing in Middle Aged Adults

Resilience refers to one’s ability to overcome challenges. Mindfulness is an attitude of awareness and non-judgmentally accepting one’s moment-to-moment experience. Flourishing includes a range of positive concepts and offers a more holistic construct to being well and happy. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between mindfulness, resilience and flourishing. The current study was conducted on 111 middle aged adults from the age of 40-60 years old. The results showed that mindfulness, resilience and flourishing were all significantly related to one another. It was also seen that those who were working were significantly more mindful and resilient than those who were not. Lastly, the results also showed that resilience and flourishing were predicted by mindfulness. The study has important implications for the field of positive psychology.