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India is home to the largest proportion of adolescent population in the world. However, there is a dearth of psychometrically and conceptually robust instruments to measure their resilience. Hence, the present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties and factor structure of the original English and the translated Hindi version of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQhttps://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-134) in a sample of Indian adolescents. It also examined the role of select socio-demographic variables (age, sex, place of residence and type of schooling) on their resilience levels. Data were collected from 1290 adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years studying in public and private schools in urban and rural areas of Northern India. A brief 35-item (English and Hindi) version of the ARQ having five domains (individual, family, peer, school and community) with a single-factor structure each, was found to be an adequate fit in the Indian context. It is a reliable instrument with good convergent validity, and no floor and ceiling effects. Additionally, the multivariate results revealed a significant main effect for all the socio-demographic factors. The effect sizes, however, were small.
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This research was part of a project that was founded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). All the authors would like to thank the ICSSR for funding this project, and all the schools and their students for their research participation. The second author is a UGC-SRF and would like to thank the UGC for sponsoring her doctoral fellowship.
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Singh, K., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Tyagi, K. The Brief 35-Item ARQ: Validation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire in India. Psychol Stud 67, 99–109 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-022-00643-0
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