Refining trait resilience: identifying engineering, ecological, and adaptive facets from extant measures of resilience

摘要

The current paper presents a new measure of trait resilience derived from three commonudmechanisms identified in ecological theory: Engineering, Ecological and Adaptive (EEA)udresilience. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of five existing resilience scalesudsuggest that the three trait resilience facets emerge, and can be reduced to a 12-item scale.udThe conceptualization and value of EEA resilience within the wider trait and well-being psychologyudis illustrated in terms of differing relationships with adaptive expressions of the traitsudof the five-factor personality model and the contribution to well-being after controlling forudpersonality and coping, or over time. The current findings suggest that EEA resilience is auduseful and parsimonious model and measure of trait resilience that can readily be placedudwithin wider trait psychology and that is found to contribute to individual well-being