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Neighbourhood Social Resilience (NSR): Definition, Conceptualisation, and Measurement Scale Development
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posted on 2020-08-04, 10:28 authored by Taimaz LarimianTaimaz Larimian, Arash Sadeghi, Falli Palaiologou, Robert Schmidt-IIIRobert Schmidt-IIIResilience studies lack a clear, precise definition of and guidelines on how to measure social
resilience and have paid remarkably little attention to social resilience at the neighbourhood scale. This study
contributes toward filling these gaps in the literature by developing and empirically testing the neighbourhood
social resilience (NSR) model as a robust and reliable measurement instrument that integrates various aspects
of this complex concept into one coherent and fine-grained psychometric model. The reliability and validity
of the NSR model are empirically tested using questionnaire data collected from 234 respondents in five
neighbourhoods of Dunedin city, New Zealand. A more nuanced definition for social resilience is provided at
the neighbourhood scale. Results indicate that social resilience is a second-order and multidimensional concept
incorporating eight dimensions. Each of these dimensions captures a distinct piece in the jigsaw of social
resilience; therefore, failure to incorporate all dimensions may provide an incomplete picture of this complex
phenomenon. The results found that of the eight dimensions of social resilience, “social network” is the
dimension with the highest explanatory power in defining social resilience. Our research bridges the gap
between top-down approach of stakeholders and policymakers and bottom-up perceptions and expectations of
residents about social resilience of their urban neighbourhood
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SustainabilityVolume
12Issue
16Pages
6363Publisher
MDPI AGVersion
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-07-31Publication date
2020-08-07Copyright date
2020Notes
Part of a Special Issue "Sustainable Construction, and Building Resilience and Adaptability for Sustainability"ISSN
2071-1050Publisher version
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Dr Falli Palaiologou. Deposit date: 1 August 2020Article number
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