45 individual transilience in the face of climate change Table 2.11. Partial Correlation between Transilience and relevant Outcomes when controlling for Efficacy Beliefs and General Resilience in Study 3 Controlling for selfefficacy Controlling for outcome efficacy Controlling for resilience 1. Individual intentions .02 .01 2. Individual behaviours .12 .11 3. Collective intentions -.00 -.02 4. Collective behaviours .22** .23** 5. Policy support .19** .19** 7. Collective action .07 .06 8. Well-being .25*** .29*** .31*** Discussion Study 3 replicated most of the findings of Study 1 and Study 2, while focusing on climate risks in one’s local community and considering a broader range of variables. Again, on average, people perceived they can be transilient. Furthermore, we again found support for the content, concurrent, discriminant and predictive validity - and partly support for incremental validity - of the transilience scale. Extending Studies 1 and 2, we found that higher perceived transilience was associated with higher general well-being. 2.5. STUDY 4 In Study 4 we aimed to replicate the findings for content, concurrent, discriminant, predictive and incremental validity of the transilience scale in a pre-registered study (https://aspredicted.org/661_8T7), with a bigger representative sample of another country. Thereby, we could address the limitation that all our previous studies were conducted with convenience samples which met just the minimum size required for scale validation. We included the same measures as in Study 3, with some minor modifications. We aimed to ensure that all constructs were sufficiently identified, namely measured with at least 3 items. Thus, we included one additional item in case of climate change positive affect, self-efficacy, outcome efficacy and political collective action. We further included examples of transformative policies and transformative individual adaptation behaviours, which aim to deviate from the status quo rather than to maintain it (Wilson et al., 2020), as transilience may be particularly relevant for these examples. To keep the length of the survey around 10-12 minutes, and to maximise the accuracy of the responses, we shortened collective adaptation and risk perception measures to 3 items, and we only included one type of policy support (i.e., local policy support). In addition, we wanted to explore whether transilience is positively associated with experiencing positive change because of being confronted with climate change risks (often referred to as posttraumatic growth; Carver & Antoni, 2
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