Jessica diBella (SCE in Munich) is finishing up her dissertation on that topic. (It is going to be a real breakthrough!) I suspect she will say that resilience may be too complex for one scale. (She sort of beat on me for using Seligman's learned optimism scale in an old Babson paper posted at SSRN
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That LO scale has been used in many settings & has great predictive validity re resilience to adversity. (As far back as 1986 - Seligman & Schulman in JPSP. Peterson/Seligman Psych Review is good too.)
LO is attribution-based - understandable, as it comes out of U Penn's long focus on cognitions related to clinical depression. Anyway, LO is well worth checking out.
The standard measure is measured in the attributional tradition but Seligman has also used (in 'pop' settings) a forced-choice version. Assumed to be reasonably general but I've seen versions tailored to specific settings. Heidi Bertels, Peter Koen & I built a nasty pre/post questionnaire that is testing both approaches - we shall see soon what works. Happy to share the measures I've/we've used.
p.s. I would also ping Annika Saarikoski at the University of Jyyvaskyla who is working on entrepreneurial resourcefulness. (I have cc'ed both Jessica & Annika.)
* if you don't use SSRN, get there NOW!
www.ssrn.com It is a great place to park working papers, conference papers, etc. and Kauffman curates entrep papers to publicize good ones. [Assuming you want people to download/read your work, of course... ;) ]
You will find great stuff on SSRN (and some truly wacky... LOL)
Norris
"2012 will be the Year of the Entrepreneur!"Norris Krueger, Ph.D.
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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:29 AM, 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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