Abstract

One of the models recently proposed for resilience training at the organizational level is the “Skill-Based Model of Individual Resilience” presented by Bakker et al. (2021). Given the shortcomings and inadequacies of the components of this model in dealing with fundamental cognitive issues, the present study aimed to develop and complete the model based on recognizing the elements and explaining the relationships between the cognitive components of resilience, with a philosophical approach and a systemic and comprehensive view of cognitive issues, in two stages using content analysis of related texts and structural-interpretive equations. The final results show that among the cognitive elements of resilience, the “view of existence” dimension is the main factor that has the greatest impact on other dimensions and there is no autonomous variable, and therefore, cognitive training of the skill-based model of resilience requires a holistic and systemic view of the problem, and any change in any of the cognitive dimensions changes other cognitive dimensions and the entire cognitive mechanisms of resilience, to the extent that its results may be beyond our prediction and control.