Has anyone seen a study comparing the resilience levels between cultures? Do people in some cultures (on average) rate higher on resilient scales than those in other cultures?
I am aware that cross-cultural measurements in psychology are limited in validity due to measurement differences, but I nevertheless would like to see one.
Hello Brock,
Please check out Michael Ungar's work. I believe he has a measure, but he looks at resilience across cultures. One of his article is called "Unique Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures".
Best,
Fanita
Resilience is built by exposure to things outside of our comfort zone, so it will vary in different cultures as to what they consider the norm we might consider extreme.
Ungar conducted a mixed methods study with 1500 youth from 11 countries and created this Child and Youth Resilience Measure. Below are articles of interest.
Ungar, M. (2008). Resilience across cultures. British Journal of Social Work, 38, 218-235. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcl343
Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2011). Assessing resilience across cultures using mixed methods: Construction of the child and youth resilience measure. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 5, 126-149. doi: 10.1177/1558689811400607
I study numerical assessment of models of emotions, personality and culture in the intercultural context and use Picard's HMM, Big-Five and synthetic cultures. I assume, you can estimate resilience on this basis.
Book Social Interaction, Globalization and Computer-Aided Analysi...
Chapter Acquisition of Intercultural Data
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