Title: | Developing a Culturally Relevant Measure of Resilience for War-Affected Adolescents in Eastern Ukraine |
Authors: | Bogdanov, Sergiy Girnyk, Andriy Chernobrovkina, Vira Chernobrovkin, Volodymyr Vinogradov, Alexander Harbar, Kateryna Kovalevskaya, Yuliya Basenko, Oksana Ivanyuk, Irina Hook, Kimberly Wessells, Mike |
Keywords: | resilience;psychometrics;measure development;conflict;children;Ukraine;psychosocial support;PSS;education in emergencies |
Issue Date: | Dec-2021 |
Publisher: | Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies |
Citation: | Bogdanov, Sergiy, Andriy Girnyk, Vira Chernobrovkina, Volodymyr Chernobrovkin, Alexander Vinogradov, Kateryna Harbar, Yuliya Kovalevskaya et al. 2021. “Developing a Culturally Relevant Measure of Resilience for War-Affected Adolescents in Eastern Ukraine.” Journal on Education in Emergencies 7 (2): 311-34. https://doi.org/10.33682/wxrd-x8fq. |
Series/Report no.: | Volume 7;Number 2 |
Abstract: | Psychosocial support in education that is provided during emergencies frequently aims to support children’s resilience, but strong, contextual measures of resilience are in short supply in Eastern Europe. In this article, our aim is to describe the development and psychometric properties of the first measure of resilience for war-affected adolescents in Eastern Ukraine. We used qualitative methods to identify the main cultural characteristics of resiliency and then used these constructs to develop the measure. We used exploratory structural equation modeling to extract five factors that showed high internal consistency: family support (ω=0.89), optimism (ω=0.87), persistence (ω=0.87), health (ω=0.86), and social networking (ω=0.87). Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that a concise model of resiliency fit the data almost as well as the exploratory structural equation modeling model. The measure demonstrated good test-retest reliability. In this article, we also discuss the importance of development, validation, and the use of culturally relevant measures of resilience for strengthening psychosocial support programs in schools, particularly in Ukraine. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/63544 |
ISSN: | 2518-6833 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.33682/wxrd-x8fq |
Rights: | The Journal on Education in Emergencies, published by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. |
Appears in Collections: | Volume 7, Number 2 (ENGLISH) |
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