Paths to Team Resilience. The Relationship between Individual and Team Resilience

Abstract or Introduction

Resilience is the ability of a person or an organization to resist adverse events. This paper examines the relationship between individual and team resilience. The three mediators that were chosen to examine the relationship between individual and team resilience in more detail are "meaning and purpose", "self-awareness" and "psychological response to stress". The three mediators were chosen because, at first glance, they are not the most intuitive variables to expect in linking individual and team resilience and because there is not yet adequate research related to the variables. In the proposed cross-sectional study, the authors use scales that are established in science to measure the different variables. This paper contributes to the research field of resilience through the theoretical analysis and in addition through the proposal of a study for future research. In the paper it is hypothesized that meaning and purpose, self-awareness and psychological response to stress mediate the relationship between individual resilience (IR) and team resilience (TR). The importance and relevance of the proposed study is discussed at the end of the paper.