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Reliability and Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) Spanish version

Rodríguez-Rey, Rocío, Alonso-Tapia, Jesús, Hernansaiz-Garrido, Helena·2016·Psychological Assessment
DOI 10.1037/pas0000191
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Resilience is defined as the ability to recover from stress. However, all resilience measures with exception of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) assess resources that make resilience possible instead of recovery. The purpose of this study was to translate the BRS to Spanish and to analyze the reliability and validity of its scores. The psychometric properties of its scores were examined in a heterogeneous sample of 620 Spanish adults. Confirmatory factor analyses were carried out to study its scores' evidence of structural validity. Besides, to study its scores' evidence of convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity in relation to other resilience questionnaires (Connor Davidson Resilience Scale 10-item version, Situated Subjective Resilience Questionnaire for Adults and Resiliency Questionnaire for Adults) and to variables such as emotions (Modified Differential Emotions Scale), coping (Person-situation Coping Questionnaire for Adults), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), posttraumatic growth (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory), perceived stress (Perceived Stress Scale) and posttraumatic stress (Davidson Trauma Scale), correlation and regression analyses were conducted. To study its sensitivity, we assessed the effect of sociodemographics and the ability of the scale to identify high-risk populations by conducting analyses of variance and Pearson correlations. The BRS scores showed adequate reliability (α = .83; intraclass coefficient = .69). Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the Spanish version of the BRS is mono-factorial (χ2/df = 2.36; standardized root mean square residual = .036; goodness-of-fit index = .980; comparative fit index = .984; incremental fit index = .984; root mean square error of approximation = .067). They also showed adequate evidence of the scores' convergent, concurrent and predictive validity. The Spanish version of the BRS is a reliable and valid means to assess resilience as the ability to bounce back. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Authors
Rodríguez-Rey, R., Alonso-Tapia, J., & Hernansaiz-Garrido, H.
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Assessment
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2016-05
Volume
28
Issue
5
Pages
e101-e110
ISSN
  • 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-134X
DOI
10.1037/pas0000191
OpenAlex
W1849096185
Cited by
281
References
35
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FWCI
10.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychological Assessment (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científica (Universidad Europea) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Keywords
Brief Resilience Scale, resilience, Spanish translation, psychometric validation, scale reliability, structural validity, convergent validity, coping, posttraumatic growth, perceived stress, post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression, stress recovery
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Spain, Reproducibility of Results, Resilience, Psychological

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