This study empirically analyzed the impact of community disaster resilience on individual resilience. It employed quantitative empirical analysis using cross-sectional data from 47 Japanese prefectures to examine the extent to which the level of community resilience in Japanese prefectures affects the Disaster Resilience Scale for Individuals (DRSi), based on individual surveys across Japan. The analysis used a multilevel resilience model in which community-level resilience and personal attributes at the individual level determine DRSi. The primary conclusion was that community resilience decreased individual resilience to some extent. This is the first study to identify trade-offs between community and individual resilience and recommend strategic decisions to build resilience at the community and individual levels.
Tshilumba et al. (Mon,) studied this question.