he ability to generate positive emotions and recover quickly from negative emotional experiences is known as emotional resilience,and it has become a new research topics in emotional psychology.The researches on the emotional resilience have both practical and theoretical significance on enriching the theory of emotional psychology,understanding the emotional ability and the regulating function of emotional ability on processing of emotional information.The paper expounds the relationship between emotion and resilience,the connotation and extension of the emotional resilience,the relationship between emotional resilience and other concepts such as affective style,emotional intelligence,and so on;illustrates the present studies between emotional resilience and other psychological factors such as personality,emotion regulation and self-efficacy,and the future study of the emotional resilience.