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Psychometric properties of the resilience scale for adults (RSA): a cross-cultural validation in a chinese and a german-speaking swiss sample
(Springer, 16.03.2026) Janousch, Clarissa; Hirt, Carmen Nadja; Da, Shu; Anyan, Frederick; Morote, Roxanna; Hjemdal, Odin; Keller, Roger; Graf, Ulrike; Zhang, Xichao; Karlen, Yves; Kassis, Wassilis
Resilience refers to the ability to adapt and recover from adversity, influenced by intrapersonal and social factors. Given the prevalence of mental health problems, understanding and accurately measuring resilience in diverse populations has become a pressing priority in health and clinical psychology. The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is widely used to assess protective factors. Although several cross-cultural studies have supported the RSA’s construct validity, evidence from Mainland China using confirmatory approaches and from the revised German version in Switzerland remains limited. This study therefore examined the RSA’s psychometric properties in these two culturally distinct samples/contexts (China and Switzerland) by focusing on factor structure and construct validity. An online survey collected data from 798 Chinese workers and 1,114 Swiss university students. The psychometric properties of the RSA were evaluated through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), measurement invariance testing, and validity analyses. Convergent and incremental validity were examined using correlations, regressions, and structural equation modeling (SEM). CFA supported a six-factor solution in both samples. Convergent validity was confirmed through significant correlations with self-esteem, self-efficacy, satisfaction with life, depressive symptoms, stress, and burnout. After controlling for life satisfaction, RSA scores predicted additional variance in depressive symptoms (21% in China, 4% in Switzerland). In the Swiss sample, social competence, family cohesion, and social resources did not significantly predict depressive symptoms. The RSA is a valuable measure of protective resilience factors. However, generalizability is limited due to sample differences, which should be considered when interpreting the findings.
01A - Journal article
Opinion mining meets decision making: towards opinion engineering
(SciTePress, 2017) Schnattinger, Klemens; Walterscheid, Heike; Fred, Ana; Filipe, Joaquim
04B - Conference paper
Social engagement of universities: more than just education
(British Academy of Management, 11.09.2014) Freiburghaus, Teresa; Wittmann, Xinhua
This paper will describe in detail the process of implementing the Social Enterprise and Economic Development (SEED) programme in the South East Asia countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
The programme aims to assist future entrepreneurs to recognize and design unique, innovative business opportunities, based on the analysis of local conditions and their own individual skills. On the other hand, to train students in inter-cultural entrepreneurship and management, enabling them to experience and learn to operate inter-culturally and in new socio-cultural contexts as entrepreneurs, strategists and change agents (leaders) to bring about sustainable economic development through their enterprising efforts at the community.
04B - Conference paper
Ontology-Based Validation of Enterprise Architecture Principles
(MDPI, 2026) Montecchiari, Devid
Enterprise architecture (EA) principles provide normative guidance for architectural evolution, yet validating whether EA models comply with such principles is typically performed manually and does not scale to continuous governance. This paper presents an ontology-based validation approach that enables automated compliance checking of ArchiMate models against EA principles. The approach (i) creates ontology-native representations of ArchiMate models grounded in an enterprise knowledge graph, (ii) structures natural-language principles using SBVR Structured English to reduce ambiguity and support traceability, (iii) enriches the resulting knowledge graph with inferred architectural relations through derivation rules, and (iv) operationalizes validation using SHACL constraints and SPARQL queries that produce explainable violation reports linked to concrete model elements. The approach is developed following Design Science Research and evaluated in three case studies (two real-world organizational settings and one controlled educational setting). The evaluation demonstrates that the approach supports repeatable execution of principle checks on evolving models, improves traceability of violations for architecture review and decision-making, and reduces manual effort by shifting substantial parts of compliance checking from human interpretation to automated constraint validation.
01A - Journal article