128 chapter 5 to which people consider themselves able to ‘bounce back’ from setbacks in life in general; Smith et al., 2008), respectively, indicating that individual transilience captures a distinct and novel construct. In line with our expectations, we found that transilience was either positively or not significantly related to climate change risks perceptions, except for one study (where we found a small negative effect), indicating that transilience generally does not imply that people downplay climate change risks. Table 5.1. Final Transilience Scale Transilience Scale Introductory text: The following questions are about how you think that the confrontation with [specific adversity] affects you / you, as [specify community]. Specifically, we want to ask you to think about how being confronted with the risks of [an adversity] affects you/ you as [specific community]. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Items: (Persistence) 1. I/we [specific community] can be brave. 2. I/we [specific community] can be persistent. (s) 3. I/we [specific community] can stay determined. (s) 4. I/we [specific community] can remain strong-willed. (Adaptability) 5. I/we [specific community] can take different measures to deal with this. (s) 6. I /we [specific community] have several options to deal with this. 7. I/we [specific community] can find multiple means to deal with this. (s) 8. There are different ways I/we [specific community] can deal with this. (Transformability) 9. Dealing with the stress that this causes can strengthen me/us [specific community]. 10. Dealing with this can have additional benefits for me/us [specific community]. 11. I/ we [specific community] can grow as a person/group by dealing with this. (s) 12. I/we [specific community] can learn something good by dealing with this. (s) Note. (s) = item to be selected for using the 6-items version of the scale The reliability of the transilience scale was quite high in Chapter 2, suggesting that some of the components may be overly identified by the developed items. Therefore, in Chapter 3 we explored whether a shorter scale comprising of 6 items could also be used to reliably assess transilience, which may increase the applicability of the transilience scale in research studies with constraints on time or resources. The shorter version of the scale (with 2 items per subcomponent) led to similar findings compared
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