The Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Scale: Clinical guidelines and applications

Psychological resilience is currently viewed as primarily a mental construct, with few measurement scales explicitly considering health hygiene factors as an integral component that allows healthy adaptation to adversity. Ongoing research, however, has provided greater clarity on the neurobiological nature of psychological resilience and has also suggested that health hygiene factors affect mental well-being on a neurobiological basis. We describe the neurobiological fundamentals of a new brief psychological resilience rating scale, the Predictive 6-Factor Resilience Scale (PR6), consisting of 16 items. Using this scale, we test the hypothesis that health hygiene factors are correlated with psychological resilience domains. We also measure forward-looking elements to contrast with point-in-time measurements and to check for consistency with the resilience construct. An existing neurobiological model is used as the basis for resilience domains and is then compared to other resilience scales for similarity in domain coverage. The PR6 was developed and subsequently applied using two modes (digital delivery, paper-based) to groups of working professionals (Healthcare, Finance). The foundations of each resilience domain measured by the PR6 provide for targeted treatment to improve holistic resilience capacity, and industry application in this study shows efficacy for both point-in-time and forward-looking psychological resilience assessment.