title: Psychometric properties of the Haitian Creole version of the Resilience Scale with a sample of adult survivors of the 2010 earthquake.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Resilience is defined as the ability of people to cope with disasters and significant life adversities. The present paper aims to investigate the underlying structure of the Creole version of the Resilience Scale and its psychometric properties using a sample of adult survivors of the 2010 earthquake.
  
  
  METHODS
  A parallel analysis was conducted to determine the number of factors to extract and confirmatory factor analysis was performed using a sample of 1355 adult survivors of the 2010 earthquake from people of specific places where earthquake occurred with an average age of 31.57 (SD=14.42). All participants completed the Creole version of Resilience Scale (RS), the Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES-R), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Social Support Questionnaire (SQQ-6). To facilitate exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the sample was divided into two subsamples (subsample 1 for EFA and subsample 2 for CFA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parallel analysis and confirmatory factor analysis results showed a good-fit 3-factor structure. The Cronbach α coefficient was .79, .74 and .72 respectively for the factor 1, 2 and 3 and correlated to each other. Construct validity of the Resilience scale was provided by significant correlation with measures of depression and social support satisfaction, but no correlation was found with posttraumatic stress disorder measure, except for factor 2.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results reveal a different factorial structure including 25 items of the RS. However, the Haitian Creole version of RS is a valid and reliable measure for assessing resilience for adults in Haiti.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec. Electronic address: cenat.jude-mary@uqam.ca.
authors.forename: Jude Mary
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cénat
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Derivois
authors.affiliation: Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec.
authors.forename: Martine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hébert
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Education and Physical Education, Notre Dame University - Louaize, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eid
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University Paris 13.
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mouchenik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012944:Social Support; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult