Citation

Ponce-Garcia E, Madewell AN, Kennison SM. Violence Vict. 2015; 30(5): 735-755.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00163

PMID

26300467

Abstract

This research developed the Scale of Protective Factors (SPF-24) to measure protective factors contributing to resilience. We investigated the factor structure of 35 items. After exploratory factor analysis, we subjected 25 items representing 2 social-interpersonal and 2 cognitive-individual factors to confirmatory factor analysis. The sample consisted of 942 college students from 3 studies and 2 institutions. To examine the diagnostic function of the SPF, we used clinical criteria to identify a subsample of participants who had experienced violent trauma and scored low, moderate, or high on an established resilience scale.

RESULTS showed that the low-resilient group scored significantly lower on all subscales of the SPF with marked differences in prioritizing/planning behavior. Implications for the research and clinical settings are discussed.

Language: en