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Resilience measures the ability to recover emotionally and cognitively from setbacks, errors, and frustrating experiences during web interactions. Users with high resilience quickly bounce back from failed form submissions, confusing error messages, or dead-end navigation paths. Low-resilience users accumulate frustration that degrades their performance and increases abandonment likelihood. In web contexts, resilience determines how many errors a user can tolerate before giving up, how quickly they recover confidence after a mistake, and whether they interpret failures as temporary obstacles or permanent barriers.
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