This study inves­ti­gates the intri­cate con­nec­tions between rela­tion­al well­be­ing and indi­vid­ual resilience, through fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tive fac­tors. As such, we aim to bridge an exist­ing gap in resilience lit­er­a­ture by exam­in­ing the ele­ments that con­tribute to indi­vid­ual resilience from a rela­tion­al per­spec­tive through a ran­dom sam­ple of slum dwellers in Indone­sia. To address this research gap, we adopt­ed White’s con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tion of rela­tion­al well­be­ing and inte­grat­ed Benard’s per­spec­tive on indi­vid­ual resilience and applied them using estab­lished mea­sures to assess the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion liv­ing in slum areas across three Indone­sian cities: Bima, Man­a­do and Pon­tianak. Rig­or­ous con­fir­ma­to­ry fac­tor analy­sis were con­duct­ed to estab­lish the valid­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty of all employed mea­sures. The results of the medi­at­ed-path analy­sis under­score the sig­nif­i­cance of fam­i­ly pro­tec­tive fac­tors in most rela­tion­ships between dimen­sions of rela­tion­al well­be­ing and indi­vid­ual resilience. Notably, the two medi­a­tors exhib­it­ed dis­tinct effects: the for­mer pos­i­tive­ly medi­at­ed the rela­tion, while the lat­ter demon­strat­ed an invert­ed medi­a­tion effect. These find­ings sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhance our under­stand­ing of the nuanced inter­play between well­be­ing and resilience, par­tic­u­lar­ly regard­ing the impact of famil­ial and com­mu­ni­ty sup­port on indi­vid­u­als’ abil­i­ty to cope with dai­ly life chal­lenges, espe­cial­ly in dis­as­ter-prone areas.