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Psychometric properties of the Resilience Scale - 14 in a sample of college students from France.
Daniel DerivoisMartine HébertJude Mary CénatAmira Karraysubject
MalePsychometricsUniversitiesmedia_common.quotation_subjectPopulationSample (statistics)Neuropsychological Tests03 medical and health sciencesSocial supportYoung Adult0302 clinical medicineArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Internal consistencyHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesTranslationseducationStudentsmedia_commoneducation.field_of_study05 social sciencesReproducibility of ResultsSocial SupportResilience Psychological030227 psychiatryPsychiatry and Mental healthConvergent validityScale (social sciences)Resilience scaleFemalePsychological resilienceFrancePsychologyFactor Analysis StatisticalStress Psychological050104 developmental & child psychologyClinical psychologydescription
Abstract Introduction In recent years, the integration of resilience in several psychological and medical studies underscores a need for resilience assessment measures with robust psychometric properties. This study aimed to evaluate the underlying structure of the French version of the Resilience Scale (RS-14), a widely used measure to assess resilience both in general and clinical population. Method A sample of 2195 college students from France (18.68% of male; Mean age = 20.09 years old (± 1.21) completed the RS-14, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure, the Social Support Questionnaire and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. EFA with parallel analysis was conducted to assess the factorial structure of the RS-14 while CFA was performed to investigate the goodness-of-fit. Internal consistency, concurrent and convergent validity were evaluated. Results A one-dimensional-factorial-solution emerged from the EFA, its goodness-of-fit was adequate and it presented good internal consistency. As expected, the RS-14 score correlated positively to the CYRM and SSQ scores and negatively to the psychological distress score, supporting the validity of the scale. Conclusion The one-dimensional-factor corroborates the initial and many languages versions of the RS-14. The results showed that the French version of the RS-14 presents adequate psychometric properties and that is a reliable and valid scale in evaluating resilience.
year | journal | country | edition | language |
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2018-12-01 | L'Encephale |