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- The research focused on creating and validating the Resilience Style Questionnaire (RSQ), which incorporates Confucian philosophies and Chinese cultural beliefs.
- Conducted with 1,419 college students and 214 cardiac patients in Hong Kong, it tested the reliability and validity of the RSQ, finding it effectively measures resilience through two main factors: perseverance and an optimistic outlook on life.
- The RSQ was shown to provide additional insights into mental health beyond existing resilience scales, proving to be a reliable and valid measure for assessing resilience, particularly among populations influenced by Confucianism.
Article Abstract
The present research aims to develop and validate a measure of resilience that reflects the influence of Confucian philosophies and Chinese cultural lay beliefs. Based on a representative sample of 1,419 college students from universities and a clinical sample of 214 cardiac patients in Hong Kong, reliability, construct validity, and criterion validity of the Resilience Style Questionnaire (RSQ) were examined. A two-factor structure of the RSQ was explored and validated in both samples. Results showed that the two factors of the RSQ (i.e., perseverance and optimistic approach to life) were significantly associated with a variety of mental health indicators in both samples. Furthermore, the RSQ explained additional variances above and beyond those explained by the Ego-Resiliency Scale, the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale in multiple mental health indicators among college students and cardiac patients. These findings showed that the RSQ is a reliable and valid tool in assessing resilience among Chinese and other groups influenced by Confucianism.
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