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Development and Psychometric Properties of a Scale to Measure Resilience among Portuguese University Students: Resilience Scale-10

Jacinto Jardim , Anabela Pereira , Ana Bártolo

ISLA — Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia

Education Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 2, 07 02 2021

Higher education students lack skills to deal in a positive way with the crises inherent to the developmental phase in which they find themselves. However, the complexity of the current global context adds an urgent need for them to be resilient. For this purpose, it is necessary to evaluate their capacity for resilience, which requires the use of instruments that are easy to access, useful, simple, and fast. In this sense, this study aimed to develop and validate a scale to assess students’ resilience in the face of adversity. The scale was administered to a sample of 2030 Portuguese higher education students. The results obtained pointed towards a factorial structure composed of two factors named “self-determination” and “adaptability”, which showed good internal consistency. Therefore, this scale proved to be a valid measure to assess resilience among the university population. Future studies may consider this variable as an intervention target since it can be a predictor of success in phases of change and crisis.

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#resilience #scale development #psychometric validation #university students #self-determination #Adaptability #adversity #Portuguese students #Scale (ratio) #Psychology #Psychological resilience #Portuguese #Resilience (materials science) #Context (archaeology) #Intervention (counseling) #internal consistency #Population #Sample (material)

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Publication Type Journal article

Publication Year 2021

Journal / Conference / Work Education Sciences

Volume / Issue Vol. 11 (2)

Pagination 61

Quartile (SCImago) Q2

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