Advanced degrees and high salaries do not automatically ensure a long shelf life among high-value workers, Boston-based meQuilibrium discovered via its recent research study, “High Education and Income Do Not Guarantee a Resilient Employee.”

Resilient people are more likely to experience job satisfaction and enjoy good health; and less likely to miss work or quit their jobs, according to meQuilibrium. Possessing resilience also provides a buffer against perceived stress and depression, according to company spokespersons.

Still, the firm’s data indicated that many well-compensated workers were no more likely to exhibit traits of resilience than their peers; were considering a job move within six months; and/or scored low in flexibility factors.

“Employers are playing a game of Russian roulette when it comes to managing their human capital,” Jan Bruce, meQuilibrium co-founder and CEO, said. “Training the entire workforce to be more resilient eliminates the guesswork of who will succeed by ensuring everyone, from the corner office to the front line, is prepared to not only address the daily challenges in business, but also thrive in the face of them.”

The study, engineered by meQuilibrium co-founder and chief science officer Andrew Shatté, also included researchers Dr. Adam Perlman, Brad Smith and Wendy Lynch.

As the human resource industry’s clinically validated resilience-building initiative, meQuilibrium uses measurable improvements to help workers and companies enhance their “well-being, adaptive capacity, purpose and performance” by invoking behavioral psychology, neuroscience and analytics in a cloud-based platform.