Evaluation on reliability and validity of 14-Item Resilience Scale

Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of the 14-Item Resilience Scale(RS-14)Chinese Version for further clinical resilience assessment.Methods The reliability and validity of the the RS-14 were tested in 446 medical practitioners in Fujian province and residents from Junmen community in Fuzhou city.Results Factor analysis indicated that the Chinese version RS-14 was composed of two factors:personal ability and positive perception,which could explain 60.755 percent of the total variance. The correlation coefficient between RS-14 and mental health subscale in the Medical Ooutcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Sruvey(SF-36)was 0.513 (P<0.001).The test-retest reliability of the overall scale for one week was 0.812(P<0.001).The split-half reliability was 0.890(P<0.001).The internal consistency of the overall scale was 0.928.The differences in the scores of the scale for the participants with different social support were statistically significant.ConclusionRS-14 is good in validity and reliability and could be used in the evaluation of resilience among Chinese adults.