Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more likely to have a higher prevalence of mental illness than non-Indigenous people, which may be caused by multiple factors (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2008; Pink & Allbon, 2008). These factors have been shown to be closely related to resilience. The concept was introduced by Masten and Co...

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) with a Chinese military population with the aim of finding a suitable instrument to quantify resilience in Chinese military service members. The confirmatory factor analysis results did not support the factorial structure of the original or the Chinese community version of the CD-RISC, but the expl...

The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s views of blood borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis t...

Resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social ecological systems. However, the scholarly community may not be fully aware that Social Ecology, as a conceptual framework, has a long intellectual history, nor fully cognizant of its foundational theory. In the article, the authors trace the intellectual roots and core principles of S...

Introduction: Resilience is an integrating concept. Many authors have explored the resilience concept, but in nursing there isn’t a real convergence, in the context of cultures and “theoretical models” adopted. The first aim was to explore if young nurses understand the concept of resilience and social capital. The second was to verify if there is a link between resilience and social capital in...

Here, I consider how social-ecological resilience can be facilitated by the use of property rights. Taking a legal perspective on the use of different forms of property, I consider how property rules can manifest the attributes of flexibility, responsiveness, optionality, and scalability associated with resilient systems. I note how different regulatory regimes such as domestic law and internat...