3237 - NATURE-BASED BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL RESILIENCE: SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Session: 3235 - BUILDING INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH NATURE-BASED THERAPIES: RESULTS FROM THE RESONATE PROJECT
AUTHORS:
Hampejs Valentina (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Tran Ulrich (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Voracek Martin (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Pahl Sabine (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Astell-Burt Thomas (School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, New South Wales ~ Sydney ~ Australia) , Dzhambov Angel (10Department of Hygiene, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Plovdiv ~ Plovdiv ~ Bulgaria) , Egger Julia (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Hartig Terry (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, ~ Uppsala ~ Sweden) , Kabisch Nadja (Institute of Earth System Sciences, Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology Section, Leibniz University, ~ Hannover ~ Germany) , Lymeus Freddie (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, ~ Uppsala ~ Sweden) , Mammadova Aynur (Department of Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (TESAF), University of Padua, ~ Padua ~ Italy) , Martin Leanne (European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter ~ Exeter ~ United Kingdom) , Pichler Christina (Institute of Ecomedicine, Paracelsus Medical University, ~ Salzburg ~ Austria) , Poole Alexandria (Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, ~ Twente ~ Netherlands) , Steininger Maximilian (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria) , Van Den Bosch Matilda (ISGlobal ~ Barcelona ~ Spain) , Wells Nancy (Department of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University ~ Ithaca ~ United States of America) , White Mathew (Vienna University ~ Vienna ~ Austria)
Abstract text:
Resilience, often defined as the capacity to withstand and recover quickly from adversity while persisting despite obstacles, is a well-researched topic. The recently developed nature-based biopsychosocial resilience (NBRT) framework argues that nature contact can build and maintain biopsychosocial resilience-related resources across four distinct phases: (1) preventive, (2) response, (3) recovery, and (4) growth. However, extant resilience scales do not address or differentiate between all four phases. We therefore developed the Comprehensive Resilience Scale (CRS), building on 589 items from 31 existing resilience scales that were identified in a scoping review. Items were analysed for their suitability, revised, and mapped onto the NBRT framework. New items were developed to cover all four phases. Item contents of the resulting pool of 78 items were then refined through a Delphi survey involving N = 15 experts. To explore the CRS's psychometric properties and optimize its item composition, four online surveys were conducted with English- and German-speaking general population samples (total N ~ 1,600). These surveys assessed the scale's structure, convergent and divergent validity, incremental validity, and test-retest reliability. The current talk will present preliminary findings which suggest that the optimized 30-item CRS has good psychometric properties and captures the four distinct resilience phases as outlined by NBRT. Future studies, including longitudinal designs, are needed to further validate the scale and explore the scale's full potential.