53 individual transilience in the face of climate change across all studies, the effect sizes showed that self-efficacy, outcome efficacy, and general psychological resilience do not overlap too much with transilience, indicating that transilience captures something different. Table 2.15. Overview of Results for Validity of the Transilience Scale Study 1 Study 2 Study 3 Study 4 Concurrent and discriminant validity Positive affect n.a. n.a. + + Negative affect + n.a. 0 n.a. Climate change anxiety (exploratory) n.a. n.a. n.a. - Perceived risks + 0 + - Self-efficacy + + + + Outcome efficacy + + + + Resilience n.a. n.a. + + Predictive validity Individual behaviours + n.a. + + Individual intentions 0 + + + Collective behaviours n.a. n.a. + 0 Collective intentions n.a. n.a. + + Political collective action n.a. n.a. + 0 Policy support + n.a. + 0 Well-being n.a. n.a. + + Positive change (exploratory) n.a. n.a. n.a. + Note. + indicates a statistically significant positive relationship between transilience and the variable; 0 indicates a non-significant relationship; - indicates a significant negative relationship. n.a. indicates that the measure was not included in the study. The four studies generally supported the scale’s predictive validity (Table 2.15). Higher perceived transilience was associated with more individual climate adaptive behaviours (when included), and higher intentions to engage in such adaptive behaviours (except for Study 1). Furthermore, in one study higher transilience was associated with higher collective climate change intentions (when included), and to collective behaviours. Next, higher transilience was associated with more support for climate change adaptation policies and higher willingness to engage in political collective action, although not in the last study. Additionally, higher transilience was related to higher general well-being, and to experiencing positive change because of climate change risks (exploratory). When controlling for self-efficacy, outcome efficacy, or resilience, transilience was still consistently related to general well-being, but less consistently to intentions, behaviour and policy support, particularly in the last two studies. Together, 2
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