33 individual transilience in the face of climate change Table 2.4. Descriptive Statistics, Reliability and Bivariate Correlations between the Measures Included in Study 1 M SD α ωt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. Transilience 5.02 0.80 .88 .92 2. Self-efficacy 4.90 1.45 .90b .47*** 3. Outcome efficacy 4.99 1.43 .93b .43*** .84*** 4. Risk perception 5.86 1.21 .93 .94 .37*** .21** .19* 5. Negative affect 5.35 1.37 .88 .89 .26*** .16* .17* .80*** 6. Policy support 5.56 1.14 .86 .90 .40*** .24** .20** .72*** .61*** 7. Adaptation Behaviours 4.00a 2.61 .29*** .30*** .30*** .12 .12 .04 8. Adaptation Intentions 0.41 0.40 .86 .89 .11 .23** .29*** .10 .27*** .12 .29*** Note. M = mean; SD = standard deviation; a = Median; α = Cronbach’s alpha; ω t = McDonald’s omega; b = Spearman-Brown coefficient, as measure assessed with two items. *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p <.001 Table 2.5. Partial Correlation Between Transilience and Relevant Outcomes when Controlling for Efficacy beliefs in Study 1 Controlling for self-efficacy Controlling for outcome efficacy 1. Adaptation behaviours .17* .19* 2. Policy Support .34*** .36*** Discussion Study 1 provided preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the transilience scale. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the items captured the three components well, apart from three reverse-coded items, although the persistence items could be improved. The transilience scale had good reliability, and we found support that, although consisting of three components, it assesses a single construct. On average, people perceive that they can be transilient in the face of climate change risks. We also found support for the concurrent, discriminant, predictive, and incremental validity of the transilience scale. As expected, transilience, though correlated, did not strongly overlap with self-efficacy and outcome efficacy. Interestingly, people perceive higher climate change risks and experience stronger negative affect towards climate change, the more they perceive they can be transilient. Next, higher transilience was associated with stronger support for adaptation policies and more adaptation behaviours, also when controlling for efficacy beliefs, but it was not significantly related to adaptation intentions. This may be because people had already engaged in several behaviours, leading to little variance in the intentions measure. 2
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