Single Versus Multiple Resilience Factors: An Investigation of the Dimensionality of the Academic Resilience Scale

• In Event: AERA Virtual Poster Session 4
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Abstract

Resilience is a major factor that affects students’ emotional and psychological wellbeing. Its dimensionality has always been a central consideration in resilience-focused studies. Dimensionality affects how psychological scales are scored, as well as the validity of inferences based on such scores in research and practical applications. The Academic Resilience Scale was recently developed to measure resilience in educational contexts. This study uses confirmatory factor analysis and ancillary bifactor measures to address questions about the dimensionality of the scale on the responses of a sample of undergraduate students. The study found no sufficient support for using the scale to obtain a unidimensional academic resilience score. Rather, the scale should only be used as a measure of multiple dimensions of academic resilience.

Authors

• Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia

• Olasunkanmi James Kehinde, Washington State University

• Adurangba Victor Oje, University of Georgia