Background: Although the need of measuring resilience among adolescents has gained attention in recent decades, there is no availability of an appropriate tool designed yet to assess resilience among Nepalese adolescents. This paper describes the psychometric properties of Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) among Nepalese adolescent students in Lalitpur which could be a possible tool for measuring resilience.
Method: The ARQ was translated into Nepali and back translated in English. The Nepali ARQ was self-administered in 512 adolescent students with 46.7% boys between the age of 13 and 19 years (M = 16.07 years, SD = 1.49) enrolled in six secondary schools in Lalitpur, Nepal. Test-retest reliability was assessed among 52 adolescent students within an interval of two weeks.
Results: Findings confirmed 12 scales and 5 domain factor structure of adolescents' resilience. Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α) for the scales and domains ranged between 0.64-0.86 and 0.71-0.86. The values of Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) showed that test-retest reliability of the scales and domains ranged between good and excellent with an overall ICC 0.95 (95% CI 0.92-0.97).
Conclusion: The Nepali version of the ARQ can be used to measure resilience among adolescents in Lalitpur, Nepal. Further studies are recommended to assess adolescents' resilience using the ARQ in diverse settings including communities of various provinces and regions of Nepal.
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