Psychometric properties of the Resilience Scale - 14 in a sample of college students from France.

INTRODUCTION

In recent years, the integration of resilience in several psychological and medical studies underscores a need for resilience assessment measures with robust psychometric properties. This study aimed to evaluate the underlying structure of the French version of the Resilience Scale (RS-14), a widely used measure to assess resilience both in general and clinical population.

METHOD

A sample of 2195 college students from France (18.68% of male; Mean age=20.09 years old (±1.21) completed the RS-14, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure, the Social Support Questionnaire and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. EFA with parallel analysis was conducted to assess the factorial structure of the RS-14 while CFA was performed to investigate the goodness-of-fit. Internal consistency, concurrent and convergent validity were evaluated.

RESULTS

A one-dimensional-factorial-solution emerged from the EFA, its goodness-of-fit was adequate and it presented good internal consistency. As expected, the RS-14 score correlated positively to the CYRM and SSQ scores and negatively to the psychological distress score, supporting the validity of the scale.

CONCLUSION

The one-dimensional-factor corroborates the initial and many languages versions of the RS-14. The results showed that the French version of the RS-14 presents adequate psychometric properties and that is a reliable and valid scale in evaluating resilience.