Dr. Friborg’s area of expertise is within fields of resilience, protective factors/ mechanisms and health promotion, with a special focus on issues related to challenges with measuring constructs like resilience, vulnerability and stress exposure. His contribution to the project will be related to assistance in planning studies aimed at mapping relevant resilience factors, quantitative measurement and validation of methods to measure resilience, as well as statistical structural modeling. He and his colleagues are testing a Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) to distinguish people who are emotionally hardy and bounce back from adversity from those who are more vulnerable and must struggle to regain their footing.