Capturing Resilience in Context: Development and Validation of a Situational Judgment Test of Resilience. Issue 2 (26th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Teng, Yuejia; Brannick, Michael T.; Borman, Walter C.
• Is Part Of: Human performance. Volume 33:Issue 2/3(2020)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2020-05-26
• Subjects: Performance -- Periodicals; Psychology, Industrial -- Periodicals; 158.7
• DOI: 10.1080/08959285.2019.1709069
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0895-9285

Abstract

ABSTRACT: We developed a 40-item situational judgment test (R-SJT) to capture resilience in context. The scoring key was developed using a crowd-sourcing method ( N = 100) and pilot-tested ( N = 62). A new sample ( N = 208) was used to investigate validity of the R-SJT scores. The R-SJT scores demonstrated acceptable levels of internal consistency, convergent validity, and evidence of better discriminant and criterion-related validity, compared to three Likert-type resilience measures. Scores on the R-SJT moderately correlated with the three resilience scales and personality measures including hardiness, negative affect, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The R-SJT showed incremental validity beyond traditional resilience measures and personality for criterion measures of psychological adjustment (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress). The R-SJT appears to be a viable instrument to measure resilience.