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Abstract. The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) measures the ability to recover from stress. To provide further evidence for construct validity of the German BRS and to determine population-based norms, a large sample (N = 1,128) representative of the German adult population completed a survey including the BRS and instruments measuring perceived stress and the resilience factors optimism, self-efficacy, and locus of control. Confirmatory factor analyses showed best model fit for a five-factor model differentiating the ability to recover from stress from the three resilience factors. On the basis of latent and manifest correlations, convergent and discriminant validity of the BRS were fair to good. Female sex, older age, lower weekly working time, higher perceived stress, lower optimism, and self-efficacy as well as higher external locus of control predicted lower BRS scores, that is, lower ability to recover from stress.

In this Charts of the Week edition, a look at how some banks rely heavily on overdraft fees for profits, the demographic issues around a growing aging U.S. population with a stagnant younger population, and how a new climate planning unit in the White House can help improve federal climate action. Aaron Klein examines how…

Part I: Introduction -- Scope of this research -- What is aging in place? -- Measuring age-friendliness -- Whose responsibility is it? -- Responses to common concerns. Part II: Planning an age-friendly community. Local government toolkit: Policy -- Local government toolkit: Regulation. Part III: Designing an age-friendly community. Age-friendly communities -- Age-friendly housing -- Community design guidelines -- Housing design guidelines. Part IV: Implementation. Incentivizing age-friendly development -- Strategic goals and activities. Appendices.