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Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample
This study presents a cross-cultural examination of the psychometric properties of two commonly used brief self-report resilience scales, the 6-item Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and the 4-item Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS). Five hundred and eleven Chinese university undergraduate students were...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32079115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041265 |
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description | This study presents a cross-cultural examination of the psychometric properties of two commonly used brief self-report resilience scales, the 6-item Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and the 4-item Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS). Five hundred and eleven Chinese university undergraduate students were recruited for this cross-sectional research. Various psychometric evaluation tools were used to evaluate the internal consistency, criterion validity, factorial validity and construct validity of these resilience scales. The results showed that both scales had good criterion validity, with well-established measures of well-being, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy and mental health, as suggested in the resilience literature. The BRS (a = 0.71) showed better internal consistency than the BRCS (a = 0.59). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results also indicated that the BRS, with a two-factor structure, had better construct validity than the BRCS. The CFA results for the BRS met all of the criteria for a good model fit. The BRS was found to have better psychometric properties than the BRCS in the Chinese context. The findings will help researchers to select an appropriate resilience measure when conducting epistemological surveys of Chinese university students or the Chinese diaspora in other contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-70684322020-03-19 Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample Fung, Sai-fu Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study presents a cross-cultural examination of the psychometric properties of two commonly used brief self-report resilience scales, the 6-item Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and the 4-item Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS). Five hundred and eleven Chinese university undergraduate students were recruited for this cross-sectional research. Various psychometric evaluation tools were used to evaluate the internal consistency, criterion validity, factorial validity and construct validity of these resilience scales. The results showed that both scales had good criterion validity, with well-established measures of well-being, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy and mental health, as suggested in the resilience literature. The BRS (a = 0.71) showed better internal consistency than the BRCS (a = 0.59). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results also indicated that the BRS, with a two-factor structure, had better construct validity than the BRCS. The CFA results for the BRS met all of the criteria for a good model fit. The BRS was found to have better psychometric properties than the BRCS in the Chinese context. The findings will help researchers to select an appropriate resilience measure when conducting epistemological surveys of Chinese university students or the Chinese diaspora in other contexts. MDPI 2020-02-16 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7068432/ /pubmed/32079115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041265 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fung, Sai-fu Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title | Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title_full | Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title_fullStr | Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title_full_unstemmed | Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title_short | Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample |
title_sort | validity of the brief resilience scale and brief resilient coping scale in a chinese sample |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32079115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041265 |
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