After reviewing the research on resilience, the authors created a list of attributes for the RAW-A that were believed to be found within resilient people. These attributes were divided into three domains: attributes associated with how we relate to ourselves (the psychological self); how we relate to others (the social self) and how we relate to events in the environment (the context).
The five attributes that comprise the psychological self include: confidence, optimism, positivity, self-awareness and self-management. The five attributes that comprise the social self include: appreciation, helping, accepting, empathy and collaboration. The five attributes that comprise the context include: reframing, goal-oriented, future minded, purposeful and proactive.
After a pilot study was completed using 101 adult subjects, the model was supported with the exception of the proactive attribute which was renamed perseverant.
To date, the RAW-A has been taken by over 2500 leaders around the world. An analysis of the subsequent data revealed that the three attributes that contributed most to the concept of resilience were collaboration, purposeful and future minded. Upon reflection, this makes sense. Future-minded appears related to hope. Purposeful appears related to having meaning in one’s life. Collaboration reinforces what Christopher Peterson, one of the authors of Character Strengths and Virtues, always said, “Other people matter.”
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