Family Resilience Scale: Development, Reliability and Validity

The purpose of this study is to develop Family Resilience Scale-FRS which aims to assess resilience perceptions of the parents. The subjects are consisted of 524 parents (105 parents of children with disability and 419 parents of children with no-disability). A 87-item-draft form was administrated to the parents and a series of validity analyses, such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, inter-correlations between subscales, item-total correlations were conducted. Also correlations between FRS and Beck Depression Inventory, Rosenbaum’s Learned Resourcefulness Scale and Parental Self-Efficacy Scale were calculated. Reliability of FRS was tested by Cronbach alpha, Spearman-Brown split-half, and test-retest coefficients. Results revealed that FRS included 37 items under four factors and had adequate psychometric properties.