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 Psychometric properties of the Brief Resilience Scale in Spanish general population: a multi-model psychometric approach
Merche Ovejero, Marta Velázquez, Laura Köppl, Violeta Cardenal, Amelia García-Moltó
E-mail: mercheovejero@iepp.es
INTRODUCTION RESULTS CONCLUSIONS
Resilience has been defined as resistance to ill- Classical Test Theory Item Response Theory (1) BRS scale had a good internal reliability in
ness and adversity, adaptation and thriving. This
both samples.
variable is correlated to personal characteristics,
Table 1. Reliability Graduated Response Model Mokken Model for Polythomous Items
social relations and wellbeing. The Brief Resilien- Procedure Sample 1 Sample 2
(2) Factor analysis support the conclusion
ce Scale is a measure used to assess the ability to λ1 .68 .71 Table 4. Parameter estimation (Graduated Response Model) Table 5. H index Table 6. Monotonicity assumption that BRS can be measured as a unitary
recover, resist, adapt and thrive. λ2 .82 .85 Item b1 b2 b3 b4 a Item S1 S2 Item Active comparisons Violations construct.
λ3/α .81 .85 S1 S2 S1 S2 S1 S2 S1 S2 S1 S2 BRS1 .51 .54 S1 S2 S1 S2
(3) It was related to psychological wellbeing,
OBJECTIVE λ4 .78 .85 BRS1 -2.25 -2.13 -.99 -1.12 .00 -.20 1.57 1.29 2.67 2.66 BRS2 .35 .41 BRS1 107 22 0 0
λ5 .79 .83 BRS2 -3.31 -3.14 -1.04 -1.00 2.85 -.11 2.85 2.07 1.01 1.20 BRS3 .43 .53 BRS2 102 22 0 0 positive affect, life satisfaction and physical
To translate into Spanish the Brief Resilience Sca- BRS3 -3.10 -2.52 -1.31 -.10 -.11 -.19 1.9 1.75 1.60 2.36 BRS4 .44 .53 BRS3 99 10 0 0 health.
λ6 .79 .84
le and to analyse its psychometric properties from BRS4 -2.66 -2.07 -.85 -.87 .21 -.14 2.10 1.48 1.68 2.18 BRS5 .51 .51 BRS4 81 19 0 0
ω .84 .86 (4) It was negatively related to neuroticism,
a multi-model approach. BRS5 -2.32 -2.26 -.86 -1.01 .27 -.06 1.86 1.67 2.48 2.25 BRS6 .48 .55 BRS5 94 22 0 0
trait anxiety and negative affect.
BRS6 -2.58 -2.13 -1.30 -1.09 -.15 -.16 1.63 1.14 2.03 2.47 General H index .45 .51 BRS6 60 12 0 0
Table 2. EFA Table 3. CFA (5) BRS fit to GRM model except for Item 2.
METHOD Item Sample 1 Sample 2 Index
2
Sample 2
Note. a: discrimination parameter b: difficulty parameter
Table 7. Double Monotonicity assumption (6) The questionnaire has good scalability
BRS1 .80 .76 χ /gl 28.094/9 Item Active comparisons Violations
The BRS was tested on two samples. Sample 1 BRS2 .50 .56 SRMR .05 except for ítem 2.
S1 S2 S1 S2
consisted of 1274 Spanish college students. Sam- BRS3 .64 .73 CFI .96 (7) There are strong similarities between dif-
ple 2 consisted of 260 Spanish general popula- BRS1 512 224 8* 12*
BRS4 .67 .74 TLI .93 ferent procedures.
tion. The BRS was administered to each sample BRS5 .79 .71 RMSEA .09 BRS2 544 176 21* 14*
along with measures of life satisfaction, positive BRS6 .73 .76 2
Note. χ test was significant BRS3 528 192 5* 8
and negative affect, Big Five personality traits and % Variance 56.3 58.6
Note. Parallel analysis based on
BRS4 544 208 11* 9*
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cas difíciles. Satisfaction with life (present) .3** .28** Positive affect .34**
6.I tend to take a long time to 6.Tiendo a tomarme mucho Purpose in Life .31** .31** Agreeableness .1
Satisfaction with life (future) -- .24** Negative affect -.34**
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Trait anxiety -.448**
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