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  • 1.  Scale to Measure Resilience

    Posted 06-02-2012 02:28
    Greetings!
     
    One of my doctoral students is studying resilience in entrepreneurs of various ethnic groups. Could someone recommend a well-accepted, validated scale to measure resilience?  Your recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Thanks in advance!
     
    Lois
     
    Lois M. Shelton
    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.
    Department of Management
    California State University, Northridge
    18111 Nordhoff Street
    Northridge, CA 91330
    ph. 818.677.3313
    fx.  818.677.6265
     
     


  • 2.  Scale to Measure Resilience

    Posted 06-02-2012 15:18

    Hi Lois,

    The "Grit" scale may be useful. Grit is defined as trait-level perseverance and passion for long-term goals, although it is not specifically developed for entrepreneurship.

     

    Duckworth, Angela Lee and Quinn, Patrick D.(2009) 'Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S)', Journal of Personality Assessment, 91: 2, 166 - 174.

    Best,

    Zhen

     

    Zhen Zhang

    Assistant Professor of Management

    W. P. Carey School of Business

    Arizona State University

    Tel: 480-965-5560

    zhen.zhang@asu.edu

    wpcarey.asu.edu/mgt

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    Greetings!
     
    One of my doctoral students is studying resilience in entrepreneurs of various ethnic groups. Could someone recommend a well-accepted, validated scale to measure resilience?  Your recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Thanks in advance!
     
    Lois
     
    Lois M. Shelton
    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.
    Department of Management
    California State University, Northridge
    18111 Nordhoff Street
    Northridge, CA 91330
    ph. 818.677.3313
    fx.  818.677.6265
     
     


  • 3.  Scale to Measure Resilience

    Posted 06-02-2012 17:20
    The only widely used resilience scale I've come across is  one by Wagnild and Young from the nursing/medical literature.  The lack of study on resilience in organizational settings was one of the issues pointed out by Stajkovic in his JAP article on Core Confdence as a Higher Order Construct.  A substitute or complimentary measure could be to use self-efficacy scales which if constructed properly provide a reliable measure of persistence which I'd imagine is a desirable/necessary trait in entrepreneurs.  GL!

    Richard

    On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Shelton, Lois M <lois.shelton@csun.edu> wrote:
    Greetings!
     
    One of my doctoral students is studying resilience in entrepreneurs of various ethnic groups. Could someone recommend a well-accepted, validated scale to measure resilience?  Your recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Thanks in advance!
     
    Lois
     
    Lois M. Shelton
    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.
    Department of Management
    California State University, Northridge
    18111 Nordhoff Street
    Northridge, CA 91330
     
     



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  • 4.  Scale to Measure Resilience

    Posted 06-02-2012 19:55
    Hi Lois,
    Psychologists studied hardiness as a trait indicative of stress
    resilience. I recommend starting with Kobasa and Maddi:

    Kobasa, S.C. (1979). Stressful life events, personality, and health: An
    inquiry into hardiness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37
    (1), 1-11.
    Kobasa, S.C., Maddi, S.R., & Kahn, S. (1982). Hardiness and health: A
    prospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42 (1),
    168-177.
    Maddi, S.R., Harvey, R.H., Khoshaba, D.M., Lu, J.L., Persico, M., &
    Brow, M. (2006). The personality construct of hardiness, III:
    Relationships with repression, innovativeness, authoritarianism, and
    performance. Journal of Personality, 74 (2), 575-598.
    Maddi, S.R., Khoshaba, D.M., Persico, M., Lu, J. Harvey, R., &
    Bleecker, F. (2002). The personality construct of hardiness II:
    Relationships with comprehensive tests of personality and
    psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 36¸72-85.

    Mike Campion also did some work with items that capture the hardiness
    domain. They can be found in:

    Campion, M.A. (1988). Interdisciplinary approaches to job design: A
    constructive replication with extensions. Journal of Applied Psychology,
    73, 467-481.

    Best wishes,

    Tim Munyon



    Campion (1988 - JAP) also has items that capture the domain.

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    >>> "Shelton, Lois M" <lois.shelton@CSUN.EDU> 6/2/2012 2:28 AM >>>
    Greetings!

    One of my doctoral students is studying resilience in entrepreneurs of
    various ethnic groups. Could someone recommend a well-accepted,
    validated scale to measure resilience? Your recommendation would be
    greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance!

    Lois

    Lois M. Shelton
    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.
    Department of Management
    California State University, Northridge
    18111 Nordhoff Street
    Northridge, CA 91330
    lois.shelton@csun.edu<mailto:lois.shelton@csun.edu>
    ph. 818.677.3313
    fx. 818.677.6265