Ego-Resiliency Scale
Sample items
- “I enjoy dealing with new and unusual situations.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Block and Kremen
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Development of resilient selfefficacy requires some experience in mastering difficulties through perseverant effort. If people experience only easy successes they come to expect quick results and their sense of efficacy is easily undermined by failure. Some setbacks and…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 54%
“Think of your everyday life. How often did you feel and show zest or enthusiasm when it was possible to do so? Think of your everyday life. How often did you express your love or attachment to others (friends, family members) and accept love from others when it was possible to…”
— Flourish a Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well Beingmatch 52%
“Wellformulated selfefficacy scales focus on a psychological domain selected for study, and ideally measure people's beliefs in their capabilities to fulfill different levels of task demands within that domain. By measuring perceptions of selfefficacy across a wide range of task…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 50%
Resources: Social Cognitive Theory · Flourish a Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well Being