Development and Validation of the Resilience Scale for Immigrant Youth
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Jayashree Mohanty1, Srinivasan Chokkanathan2, Jane Ku3
1School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
Purpose:
This study aimed to develop and validate a measurement scale for assessing resilience among immigrant youth.
Methods:
We adopted a mixed-method approach, conducting interviews with 26 immigrant youth and testing these items in a quantitative study of 215 immigrant youth from Windsor-Essex, Canada.
Results:
The EFA using Principal Axis Factoring yielded five factors, accounting for 50% of the total variance. The internal reliability for the total scale was 0.92. As expected, the newly developed Resilience Scale for Immigrant Youth (RSIY) and all five subscales were significantly and positively related to another measure of resilience, CYRM, ranging from r = .37 to r = .55, p < .00. The RSIY scale differentiated youth based on their emotional and behavioral difficulties level, providing evidence for its convergent validity.
Discussion:
The initial psychometric evidence indicates that the scale demonstrates good internal consistency, well-supported factor structure, and evidence of construct and predictive validity.
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