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Michelle Choi, RN, DrPH Cand, Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, 312-307-9904, mchoi7@uic.edu and Arlene Michaels Miller, PhD, RN, Public Health, Mental Health & Admin. Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 South Damen, Room 1016, Chicago, IL 60077.
The concept of resilience is considered to be a positive personality characteristic used as a coping resource to buffer the negative impact of major life experiences. The Resilience Scale (RS) is a two-factor (Personal Competence and Acceptance of Self and Life), 25-item scale developed from data of women who had adapted successfully following a major life event. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Russian version of the RS. A translated Russian version retaining the two factors but modified to 12 items was used. Baseline data from a longitudinal study of post-migration health of 224 women from the former Soviet Union (FSU) were analyzed. A two-factor structure was expected with 9 items corresponding to Personal Competence and 3 items corresponding to Acceptance of Self and Life. Principal component factor analysis extracted two components (44.398% and 11.105%). Reliability analysis yielded an internal consistency of .88. Rasch summary statistics revealed a person reliability of .81, a person separation of 2.04, an item reliability of .98, and an item separation of 6.86. Concurrent validity of the RS was supported by correlations with the Family Hardiness Index (r=.253, p=.01)and the Perceived Stress Scale (r=-.418, p<.01). A two-factor solution was supported by this Russian data. However, scores of each component should be carefully interpreted. Acceptance of Self and Life may not be relevant to immigrants due to constant demands of immigration and pre-migration context. Translated instruments should possess cultural equivalence, contextual understanding of immigrants, and minimal burden to respondents.
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Keywords: Immigrant Women, Data Collection
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.