Measuring and understanding individual resilience across the EU
Recent events have underlined the importance of the ability to cope with shocks and societal transitions. Within this context, our paper proposes a novel strategy to build an indicator of individual resilience and to explore its determinants. The unique data of this exercise, combined into a novel Individual resilience index, allows us to compare resilience at the individual level within the European Union and to understand its distribution.
The results provide a deeper understanding of the characteristics of more resilient people in comparison to less resilient ones, and it highlights important differences in terms of resilience across the EU countries. Heterogeneity in resilience is explained by individual characteristics such as age, education and social status, but the country context matter: resilient people thrive in more prosperous places. Results show how fostering individual resilience is not only beneficial in terms of achieving positive life outcomes and wellbeing, but it promotes community inclusiveness and social cohesion.
JOOSSENS Elisabeth;
MANCA Anna Rita;
ZEC Slavica;
2022-11-03
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC130485
978-92-76-58446-9 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31264 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-264-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130485,
10.2760/434622 (online),
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