Abstract

CABRERA-GARCIA, Victoria Eugenia; AYA-GOMEZ, Viviana Lucía  and  GUEVARA-MARIN, Ivón Paola. Designing and psychometric analysis of an infant resilience scale. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2014, vol.62, n.2, pp.213-220. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v62n2.45394.

Background. Resilience has been a topic of interest forseveral disciplines during recent decades; there hasalsobeen an increase in the development of tests formeasuring it. Objective. This study was aimed at proposing a scale forevaluating resilience through human virtues as indicators of children's healthy development. Factorial and reliability was analysed for the scale. Materials and methods. This study was intended to explore the instrumental performance of a Likert-type psychometric scale by measuring resilience in children. The sample included 407 children aged 7 to 12 years-old. Results. The scale identified two factors: generosity and industriousness. Six questions were pooled regarding the generosity factor (34.62% of variance) and eight questions for industriousness(33.18% variance). Conclusions. The findings indicated that the scale was appropriate for use as an assessment tool regarding childhood resilience.

Keywords : Resilience; Psychological; Child; Scales; Mental Health.

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