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- Title
THE BRIEF RESILIENCE SCALE – A ROMANIAN-LANGUAGE ADAPTATION.
- Authors
MACOVEI, Crenguța Mihaela
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present the adaptation of the Brief Resilience Scale developed by Smith et al. to the Romanian language. The scale was applied in two different samples at different times. In the first study, conducted on a sample composed of 198 military students, factor analysis revealed the presence of a single factor, weakly charged with five of the six items of the scale.The internal validity coefficient of the scale is low, but convergent validity is well supported by strong correlations between the level of resilience and other measured constructs (perceived stress, self-efficacy and self-regulation). In the second study, conducted on one sample made up of 166 employees in the Romanian military system, all items satisfactorily loaded on a single factor and Cronbach's alpha value indicated good internal consistency of the scale.The staff resilience level was positively correlated with skill use and social support at work and negatively with perceived stress. The t-test highlighted a strong association between professional status of respondents and their level of resilience, military personnel obtaining higher average than civilian personnel as well as a weak association between the respondents' gender and their level of resilience, men achieving higher average than women. Students have lower resilience scores than staff whilst also reporting higher stress levels. Although BRS did not prove satisfactory psychometric properties for the sample of military students, it proved suitable for the sample of employees of the Romanian military system.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; ROMANIAN language; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); SELF regulation; PERCEIVED Stress Scale
- Publication
Agora Psycho-Pragmatica, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
1842-6840
- Publication type
Article