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. 2020 Feb 16;17(4):1265.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041265.

Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample

Sai-Fu Fung  1
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Validity of the Brief Resilience Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale in a Chinese Sample

Sai-Fu Fung. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: BRCS; BRS; Chinese; confirmatory factor analysis; resilience; university student.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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The final standardised model of the two-factor BRS. Note. PPF = positive polarity factor; NPF = negative polarity factor.
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