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Highlights
• There are several reasons why community-dwelling spinal cord injury individuals are poorly resilient, especially in developing countries, where vocational rehabilitation still needs to be strengthened to overcome these barriers.
• Socio-demographic factors (gender, marital status, and employment) and the well-being of the sufferers significantly affect the status of their resilience.
• Attention should be paid to the most important socio-demographic factor, i.e. employment, which is a highly significant factor of resilience amongst spinal cord injury individuals living in the community.
Plain Language Summary
A spinal cord injury is a life-disrupting condition that demands extensive, in-depth rehabilitation. Furthermore, resilience is a dynamic process and is considered an important element that helps people to cope and adjust to the consequences of any stressful or traumatic event, such as spinal cord injury. Unfortunately, resilience among spinal cord injury survivors remains under-researched, especially in developing countries, such as India. Therefore, the present study indicated that physical health, psychological health, environmental factors, as well as demographic variables were strongly associated with resilience. The present study indicated the importance of providing appropriate interventions, such as vocational rehabilitation support as well as awareness about the injury to help strengthen resilience and reintegration amongst spinal cord injury individuals into their communities. Therefore, this will not only help enhance resilience among spinal cord injury people but will also aid in their effective reintegration and equal participation in society