Item and domain network structures of the Resilience Scale for Adults in 675 university students.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is a questionnaire that measures protective factors of mental health. The aim of this paper is to perform a network analysis of the RSA in a dataset composed of 675 French-speaking Belgian university students, to identify potential targets for intervention to improve protective factors in individuals.

Methods

We estimated a network structure for the 33-item questionnaire and for the six domains of resilience: perception of self, planned future, social competence, structured style, family cohesion and social competence. Node predictability (shared variance with surrounding nodes in the network) was used to assess the connectivity of items. An exploratory graph analysis (EGA) was performed to detect communities in the network: the num

SUBMITTER: Briganti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061136 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature