Psychometric properties and Factor structure of the BRCS in an elderly Spanish sample

  1. Moret Tatay, Carmen
  2. Fernández Muñoz, Juan José
  3. Civera Mollá, Cristina
  4. Navarro Pardo, Esperanza
  5. Alcover de la Hera, Carlos María
Revista:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Año de publicación: 2015

Volumen: 31

Número: 3

Páginas: 1030-1034

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/ANALESPS.31.3.188401 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Anales de psicología

Resumen

Successful resilience is a variable often related to an optimal ag-ing process. However, literature is rather limited when dealing with assess-ment instruments for the elderly in the Spanish language. The objective of this work is to validate the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair & Wallston, 2004), a four item likert scale, in the Spanish elderly. For this propose, the scale was administrated to a sample of 991 elderly Spanish participants, and the data set analysed in terms of exploratory and confirm-atory factor analysis, internal consistency and criterion validity. The scale demonstrated good psychometric properties. Furthermore, the homogenei-ty indices were higher than the recently literature, reinforcing the dimen-sional structure of the scale. These results have shown higher reliability from previous Spanish versions. Therefore, the Brief Resilient Coping Scale is a valuable assessment instrument that could be very useful in the assessing of resilience in the Spanish-speaking elderly

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