Development and Validation of the Resilience Scale for Immigrant Youth

IF 2.1 4区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Research on Social Work Practice Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI:10.1177/10497315261427308

Jayashree Mohanty, Srinivasan Chokkanathan, Jane Ku, Wansoo Park

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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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移民青年心理弹性量表的编制与验证

摘要目的研究移民青年心理弹性的量表编制与验证。方法采用混合方法，对26名移民青年进行访谈，并对来自加拿大温莎-埃塞克斯的215名移民青年进行定量研究。结果采用主轴因子分析的EFA得到5个因子，占总方差的50%。总量表的内部信度为0.92。正如预期的那样，新开发的移民青年弹性量表（RSIY）和所有五个子量表与另一个弹性测量CYRM显著正相关，r = 0.37至r = 0.55, p < 00。RSIY量表对青少年的情绪和行为困难水平进行了区分，为其趋同效度提供了证据。初步的心理测量证据表明，该量表具有良好的内部一致性、良好的支持因子结构、建构效度和预测效度证据。

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Research on Social Work Practice SOCIAL WORK-

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3.50

自引率

11.10%

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105

期刊介绍： Research on Social Work Practice, sponsored by the Society for Social Work and Research, is a disciplinary journal devoted to the publication of empirical research concerning the methods and outcomes of social work practice. Social work practice is broadly interpreted to refer to the application of intentionally designed social work intervention programs to problems of societal and/or interpersonal importance, including behavior analysis or psychotherapy involving individuals; case management; practice involving couples, families, and small groups; community practice education; and the development, implementation, and evaluation of social policies.