How Can Patience Help You Deal With Life’s Frustrations? |
Patience can be defined as a capacity to endure difficulties, frustrations, and suffering with some sense of calm. Evidence suggests that patience is an important factor for mediating life’s challenges while also contributing to a sense of personal well-being and meaning in life (Schnitker & McAnnally-Linz, 2021).
Patience has not been widely studied by psychologists. Recently, research findings published in 2024 by Kate Sweeny, PhD, and Sarah Schnitker, PhD, “show that patient people worry less and feel less negative and more positive emotions when waiting for personally relevant news…” Sweeny (2025) says that impatience is an emotion sparked by various types of frustrations, suggesting further research to examine new approaches to strengthen patience as a coping strategy to help........