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Resilience has been conceptualized as the result of cumulative risk versus protective factors on development. Research suggests planfulness may be a protective factor of resilience as it mediates the impact of stress and increases the likelihood of positive outcomes. To our knowledge, few studies have investigated the nature of the association between planfulness and resilience using direct measures. We used the Connor Davidson Resilience Scale as a direct measure of Resilience (CD-RISC) to help address this gap in the literature. We used Hierarchical Stepwise Regression to test the hypothesis that resilience is positively predicted by planfulness and negatively predicted by anxiety and depression. The sample consisted of 100 undergraduate students endorsing two or more traumatic experiences on a measure of cumulative risk. Results indicated that resilience is positively predicted by planfulness (β = 0.33) and negatively predicted by anxiety (β = − 0.25) and depression (β = − 0.33), confirming the hypothesis. The present study supports the use of direct measures of resilience rather than an assessment of resilience by proxy as a direct measure is expected to support replication across studies.
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Ponce-Garcia, E., Madewell, A. Planfulness predicts resilience in a cumulative risk sample. Curr Psychol 43, 8029–8037 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04993-4
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