AUTHOR=Anderson Jacqueline R. , Killian Michael , Hughes Jennifer L. , Rush A. John , Trivedi Madhukar H. 

TITLE=The Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire: Validation of a Shortened Version in U.S. Youths

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=11

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606373

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606373

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Resilience is a factor in how youth respond to adversity. The 88-item Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional self-report measure of resilience developed with Australian youth.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>Using a cross-sectional adolescent population (<italic>n</italic> = 3,222), confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to replicate the original factor structure. Over half of the adolescents were non-white and 9th graders with a mean age of 15.5.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Our exploratory factor analysis shortened the measure for which we conducted the psychometric analyses. The original factor structure was not replicated. The exploratory factor analysis provided a 49-item measure. Internal consistency reliability for all 12 factors ranged from acceptable (α&gt; 0.70–0.80). The revised factor total scores were highly and significantly correlated with item–total correlation coefficients (<italic>r</italic> &gt; 0.63, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001).</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>This revised shorter 49-item version of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire could be deployed and has acceptable psychometric properties.</p></sec>