Fig 1.
Resilience is the size of the vertical arrows in this diagram–how far can the system (individual, ecosystem, economy, etc.) be perturbed and still return to its original state (or “set-point”).
For ball A, the arrow is a measure of how far the system can be perturbed before falling to a worse state. For ball B, it is a measure of how much resilience must be overcome to enable transition to a better state. High resilience is positive if it prevents transition to worse states but not if it prevents transition to better states.
Table 1.
Distribution of people’s life satisfaction.
Fig 2.
Distribution of average LS over time divided into suffering (LS = 0–4.4), struggling (LS = 4.5–6.4) and thriving (LS = 6.5–10).
Table 2.
Summary statistics, unbalanced sample.
Fig 3.
The distribution of SD of LS for the three groups.
Individuals in the suffering range had an average SD of 1.96, those in the struggling range an average of 1.54, and those that were thriving an average SD of 0.87.
Fig 4.
Average and standard deviation of life satisfaction across individuals over the 17 waves of the HILDA survey divided into suffering (0–4.4), struggling (4.5–6.4) and thriving (6.5–10).
Table 3.
Multiple regressions between an individual’s standard deviation in life satisfaction (all).