measuring resilience qualitative and quantitative methods
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Measuring Resilience
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
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The Brief Resilience Scale: Assessing the Ability to Bounce Back
Smith et al. (2008)
Characteristics may increase the likelihood of resilience = “resilience resources”
Quantitative surveys
Measurements using (Likert) scales
Focus was on individual resilience
Personal characteristics, coping style
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Defining Resilience
“resilience” as returning to the previous level of functioning (e.g., bouncing back or recovery)
“thriving” as moving to a superior level of functioning following a stressful event
“adaptation” (or “stress adaptation”) changing to adjust to a new situation. Finally, it may be preferable to use
“resistance” (as in “stress resistance” or “resistance to illness”) to refer to not becoming ill or showing a decrease in functioning during stress
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The Brief Resilience Scale: Assessing the Ability to Bounce Back
Brief Resilience Scale:
I tend to bounce back quickly after hard times
I have a hard time making it through stressful events
It does not take me long to recover from a stressful event
It is hard for me to snap back when something bad happens
I usually come through difficult times with little trouble
I tend to take a long time to get over set-backs in my life
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Rural natives’ perceptions of strengths andchallenges in their communities
Ulrich-Schad (2013)
Used both telephone surveys and focus groups
Qualitative data collection- participants identified important aspects of their community
Focus was on community “resilience resources”
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Rural natives’ perceptions of strengths andchallenges in their communities
The focus groups also asked participants to share their perceptions of the existing strengths and challenges in their communities
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Defining Resilience
Community Strengths- “Resilience Resources”:
Being close to families
Being in touch with their Native identity and culture
Playing an active role in their community
Community cohesion
Natural beauty of where they live
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Defining Resilience- Ungar
Resilience = “Fully able”
Capacity to navigate and negotiate the use of resources that are needed
Requires resources to be available
Resilience is an interplay between personal traits and the environment
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Defining Resilience
Resilience capacity is like a bank- resilience is added to and taken from constantly throughout a person’s lifetime
Resilience is NOT static
Resilience capacity changes throughout the life course
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Resilience in Public Health
How do we identify and boost factors that contribute to a person/community ‘resilience bank’?
How do we identify and mitigate factors that take withdraw from a person/community ‘resilience bank’?
How do we measure something that is always changing?
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Create Your Definition of Resilience
On your own, write down your own definition of resilience
Share your definition with your group
Tweak your own definition if you would like to
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Resilience Resources
Identify and list 4 ‘Resilience Resources’ that contribute to a person’s resilience bank
Think about personal traits and community-level characteristics
Examples:
Personal: sense of humor
Community-level: safe neighborhood
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Measuring Resilience
Quantitative Measurements: Create one question that could be used to quantitatively measure each of the resilience resources you selected
Alternate between positively and negatively worded questions
Example: I know people I can confide in
Example: The teachers at my school are not interested in my future
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Measuring Resilience
Ungar: Qualitative methods are well suited to the discovery of the unnamed protective processes relevant to the lived experience of research participants
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Measuring Resilience
Qualitative data can be used to identify resources to be measured quantitatively in future studies
Qualitative Measurements: Create 2 questions that could be used to qualitatively assess the resilience of a person/community
Example: What do you like best about living in your community?
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Public Health Practice
Assignment:
Briefly describe one public health program or policy that could be created to increase the ‘resilience banks’ of people living within a community.
What kind of measurement tool would you use to see if resilience increased?
How do you feel resilience relates to self-efficacy?