Abstract

RUIZ PEREZ, José Ignacio. Community Resilience: Proposal of a Scale and its Relationship with Criminal Violence Indicators. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.1, pp.119-135. ISSN 1657-8961.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javerianacali.PPSI13-1.rcpe.

Objective. The aims of this paper were to both validate a short Community Resilience Scale (CR) and to explore relationships between resilience and collective efficacy and criminal violence indicators. Method. A non-randomized sample (n = 965) was taken of students from technical programs and universities, who answered a scales pool on CR, collective efficacy, victimization perceived probability and background variables. Results. Results showed that the CR scale had high internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.87), with two factors: communal coping and collective self-esteem. Victimization experiences were associated with both higher communal coping and lower collective self-esteem, and CR and collective efficacy were directly associated. In a macro level analysis, more homicides, kidnappings, and car thefts were associated with lower collective self-esteem level. Conclusion. CR Scales show high internal reliability, convergent validity with victimization and collective efficacy indicators and ecological validity with objective crime indicators.

Keywords : Community resilience; communal coping; collective self-esteem; crime violence.

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