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Acta Colombiana de Psicología
Print version ISSN 0123-9155
Abstract
MANDUJANO-JAQUEZ, María Fernanda; DOMINGUEZ-GUEDEA, Miriam Teresa and GAXIOLA-ROMERO, José Concepción. Psychometric properties of a resilience scale in family caregivers of older adults. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.2, pp.75-85. ISSN 0123-9155. https://doi.org/10.14718/acp.2020.23.2.4.
Caring for an elder relative has been studied not only as a stress generating circumstance and a loss of well-being for the caregiver but also, from the perspective of positive psychology, as the study of caregivers' dispositions to respond to dif ficulties experienced in a resilient manner. The aim of this study was to test the construct validity of a resilience inventory employing exploratory and confirmatory procedures. To that end, data were collected from two independent samples of family caregivers of older adults in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico: 125 caregivers aged 19 to 73 years (M age = 47.8, SD = 12) to perform exploratory factor analyses and 160 caregivers aged 19 to 82 years (M age = 48.7, SD = 13) to conduct con firmatory factor analyses. The analyses revealed two clear and statistically robust dimensions in the RESI with 12 items: instrumental resilience and emotional resilience. This study shows that RESI is a valid instrument to assess resilience in a Mexican population of family caregivers of older adults.
Keywords : resilience; family caregivers; older adults; validity.