Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
BMC Med Res Methodol. 2011 Oct 5;11:134. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-134.
The concept of resilience has captured the imagination of researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However, despite the ever growing body of resilience research, there is a paucity of relevant, comprehensive measurement tools. In this article, the development of a theoretically based, comprehensive multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents is described.
Extensive literature review and focus groups with young people living with chronic illness informed the conceptual development of scales and items. Two sequential rounds of factor and scale analyses were undertaken to revise the conceptually developed scales using data collected from young people living with a chronic illness and a general population sample.
The revised Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire comprises 93 items and 12 scales measuring resilience factors in the domains of self, family, peer, school and community. All scales have acceptable alpha coefficients. Revised scales closely reflect conceptually developed scales.
It is proposed that, with further psychometric testing, this new measure of resilience will provide researchers and clinicians with a comprehensive and developmentally appropriate instrument to measure a young person's capacity to achieve positive outcomes despite life stressors.
在过去的二十年中，韧性的概念引起了研究人员和政策制定者的兴趣。然而，尽管韧性研究的文献不断增加，但缺乏相关的、全面的衡量工具。本文描述了一种基于理论的、综合的青少年韧性多维测量工具的开发。
广泛的文献回顾和与慢性病青少年的焦点小组讨论为量表和项目的概念发展提供了信息。使用来自慢性病青少年和一般人群样本的数据，进行了两轮因子和量表分析，以修订概念上开发的量表。
修订后的青少年韧性问卷包括 93 个项目和 12 个量表，用于测量自我、家庭、同伴、学校和社区领域的韧性因素。所有量表的 alpha 系数均可接受。修订后的量表与概念上开发的量表密切相关。
建议，随着进一步的心理测量学测试，这种新的韧性衡量标准将为研究人员和临床医生提供一个全面的、适合发展的工具，用于衡量年轻人在面临生活压力源时实现积极结果的能力。
