TY  - JOUR
A1  - Molenaar, Carin
A1  - Blessin, Manpreet
A1  - Erfurth, Luise M.
A1  - Imhoff, Roland
T1  - Were we stressed or was it just me – and does it even matter? Efforts to disentangle individual and collective resilience within real and imagined stressors
T2  - British journal of social psychology
N2  - Although resilience is a multi-level process, research largely focuses on the individual and little is known about how resilience may distinctly present at the group level. Even less is known about subjective conceptualizations of resilience at either level. Therefore, two studies sought to better understand how individuals conceptualize resilience both as an individual and as a group. Study 1 (N = 123) experimentally manipulated whether participants reported on either individual or group-based responses to real stressors and analysed their qualitative responses. For individual responses, subjective resilience featured active coping most prominently, whereas social support was the focus for group-based responses. As these differences might be attributable to the different stressors people remembered in either condition, Study 2 (N = 171) held a hypothetical stressor (i.e., natural disaster) constant. As expected, resilience at the group level emphasized maintaining group cohesion. Surprisingly, the group condition also reported increased likelihood to engage in blame, denial, and behavioural disengagement. Contrary to expectations, participants in the individual condition reported stronger desire to seek out new groups. The combined findings are discussed within the framework of resilience and social identity and highlight the necessity of accounting for multiple levels and subjective conceptualizations of resilience.
KW  - collective resilience
KW  - subjective resilience
KW  - mixed methods
KW  - social identity
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72087
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-720871
SN  - 2044-8309
N1  - These studies were funded as part of a Leibniz Collaborative Excellence (Leibniz-Kooperative Exzellenz) project titled ‘Resilience factors in a diachronic and intercultural perspective’ (# K83/2017).
N1  - Data availability statement: The qualitative data from Study 1 are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions. The data, separated from demographic information, that support the findings of Study 2 are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. This will not include data from participants who requested to have data deleted within two years of analysis.
VL  - 61
IS  - 1
SP  - 167
EP  - 191
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken, NJ [u.a.]
ER  -