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Community Resilience to Change: Development of an Index

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Structural economic change is inherently impacting upon community systems. Sustainable and adaptive processes are critical for community systems to respond and manage economic structural change. Resilience is an emerging change management approach for sustainable regional development; yet, the literature is void of instruments for long-term structural change. This research developed an 18-item index for measuring resilience in this context. A three-stage approach was used to develop, test and validate the index items, including (1) review of existing indicators, (2) Delphi panel, and (3) resident survey. The index was developed over four dimensions and validated in two regional Australian communities. Future research should further test this instrument.

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  1. USC Business, Faculty of Arts, Business and Law, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

    Alexandra Bec, Char-lee J. Moyle & Brent D. Moyle

  2. School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Coolangatta, Australia

    Alexandra Bec & Brent D. Moyle

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Table 6 Community resilience indicator studies
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Table 7 Resilience scale variables and index Cronbach’s alpha scores
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Table 8 Resilience factor loadings and unique variances
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Bec, A., Moyle, Cl.J. & Moyle, B.D. Community Resilience to Change: Development of an Index. Soc Indic Res 142, 1103–1128 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1960-x

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