Beyond just bouncing back from a tough change, what deep quality allows someone to actually get stronger because of it?

Bouncing back from a tough change refers to resilience, which is the ability to maintain stable mental and physical health or return to a previous level of functioning after encountering adversity. However, the deep quality that allows someone to actually get stronger, meaning to experience positive psychological growth as a result of the struggle, is their *adaptive capacity for transformative meaning-making in the face of significant adversity*. This profound quality is often referred to as the capacity for Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG), which is the experience of positive psychological change that occurs as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances.