Preliminary Study of the Factor Structure of Persian Version of Resilience Scale (Short Form) in Primary School Students in the Fourth to Sixth Grades of Izeh City

In behavioral sciences use tools such as questionnaires, checklists, inventory, or scales to measure a behavior or variable. The variable of resilience is no exception to this issue, but the tools that have been used to measure it in the country so far, the age range of 15 years and above have been the criteria and have been standardized and localized for this age range. Therefore, in the case of primary school children (in the age range of 9 to 12 years), no tools have been localized in the country so far. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of introduction and cross-cultural adaptation of elementary course student resilience scale. The study population was the elementary school students of Izeh city and the selected sample was 420 boy and girl students studying in the 2019-2020 academic year of this city which were selected according to the epidemic of coronavirus in an accessible manner. The software used in this study was SPSS-26 and LISREL statistical software was 8.80. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the research data. Findings showed that the Persian version of the resilience scale has a valid and desirable factor structure based on the influence of Iranian culture. The validity of this tool was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient higher than 0.7. It is suggested that after passing the Covid-19 epidemic, psychometric indices of this scale be re-examined using random sampling.