Open AccessConstruct Validity and Population-Based Norms of the German Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
Author(s) -
Angela Kunzler,
Andrea Chmitorz,
Christiana Bagusat,
Antonia J. Kaluza,
Isabell Hoffmann,
Markus Schäfer,
Oliver Quiring,
Thomas Rigotti,
Raffaël Kalisch,
Oliver Tüscher,
Andreas G. Franke,
Rolf van Dick,
Klaus Lieb
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european journal of health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2512-8442
pISSN - 2512-8450
DOI - 10.1027/2512-8442/a000016
Subject(s) - optimism , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , german , construct validity , discriminant validity , psychological resilience , population , convergent validity , locus of control , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychometrics , statistics , mathematics , demography , geography , sociology , archaeology , internal consistency
. The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) measures the ability to recover from stress. To provide further evidence for construct validity of the German BRS and to determine population-based norms, a large sample (N = 1,128) representative of the German adult population completed a survey including the BRS and instruments measuring perceived stress and the resilience factors optimism, self-efficacy, and locus of control. Confirmatory factor analyses showed best model fit for a five-factor model differentiating the ability to recover from stress from the three resilience factors. On the basis of latent and manifest correlations, convergent and discriminant validity of the BRS were fair to good. Female sex, older age, lower weekly working time, higher perceived stress, lower optimism, and self-efficacy as well as higher external locus of control predicted lower BRS scores, that is, lower ability to recover from stress.