inner resource
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6.2
- noun
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recurso interior
- For example, a strong ethnic identity may provide an individual with inner resources for handling prejudice and discrimination.
- calling upon inner resources
Examples
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Although memory structures continue to evolve with maturation and experience, at any point in time they constitute the individual's inner resources for addressing the outer world.
Academic text (1998) -
She relied on her inner resources to get through the tough times after losing her job.
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First, we can delve into the potential inner resources that all students have.
Academic text (1998) -
Additionally, identifying those supports and inner resources that allow these children and families to succeed is an equally important task.
Academic text (1993) -
It's not that the narrator has changed, but that the narrator has discovered existing inner resources he didn't know he had.
Academic text (2010) -
Instead, inner resources and feelings are used to structure the internal repercussions while the outer event is essentially ignored.
Academic text (1998) -
Had she possessed an inner resource or two, she wouldn't have spent the last hours of her vacation sitting around doing nothing with a nine-year-old.
Fiction book (1991) -
Both, he contends, hold promise as powerful inner resources to help adolescents withstand the trials of growing up.
Academic text (2012) -
And as we increasingly discover our inner resources, we realize that the futile, agonizing, and destructive outward search for meaning has been the wrong strategy.
Academic text (1993) -
Although she had plenty of what her mother used to call "inner resources," she put her self-esteem in other people's hands, took rejection badly, and got nervous in disarming but unattractive ways.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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4.5
The ability to find quick, clever ways to solve problems in difficult situations
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4.6
A person's ability to stay calm and keep trying during hard times
A strong feeling of courage inside you that helps you act
How Resilient
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a mental or emotional ability or strength' is directly and compositionally derived from 'inner' (internal, relating to thoughts/feelings) + 'resource' (capacity or means). This adjective + noun combination follows ordinary English composition patterns and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Inner resource comes from the image of a hidden supply inside a person. inner means 'inside' and resource means a useful store you can draw on. So, inner resource means the mental or emotional strength you use to 'deal with difficult situations'.