Abstract
Although the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) has been validated in some European and American countries, there are no studies that evaluate its factorial invariance among different nations. In this sense, the objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial invariance of the BRCS in samples of older adults in Peru and Spain, using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 236 older adults from Peru participated (Mean age = 72.8, SD = 6.90) and 133 older adults from Spain (Mean age = 71, SD = 7). In the Peruvian sample 78.4% were women and 21.6% men; while in the Spanish sample the majority were women (69.9%). The BRCS was scalar invariant but not strictly invariant between Spain and Peru. Our results found invariance of the structure, factor loadings and intercepts in both countries. These results support the use of BRCS in studies that compare the resilience between samples of older adults in both countries, and encourage applied research for the development of resilience in older adults in Spain and Peru.
Introduction
In recent years, resilience has received attention from the scientific community as an important part of successful aging (Felten & Hall, 2001; Jopp & Smith, 2006; Resnick, 2014). Although different theoretical perspectives coexist on resilience during the old age (Cosco et al., 2017; Fernandes de Araújo et al., 2015; Windle et al., 2008), commonly resilience is understood as the set of personal and contextual resources that enable individuals to successfully cope and adapt to the various stressors that appear throughout life (Luthar & Cichetti, 2000; Masten, 2007). This conceptualization considers resilience as a protective self-regulating mechanism (Hardy et al., 2004; Masten, 2007; Sojo & Guarino, 2011) in the face of stressful situations in the old age, such as the gradual loss of autonomy, cognitive impairment, lack of mobility, frailty, economic uncertainty, or dealing with significant others' death as well as his/her own death (Aldwin & Igarashi, 2012; Fried et al., 2004; Grenier, 2005; Nygren et al., 2005; Ryff et al., 1998; Serrano-Parra et al., 2012; Smith & Hayslip, 2012). Therefore, some authors consider that resilience in the older adults allows the optimization of personal resources like prosocial behaviors, self-esteem, spirituality, sense of humor, creativity, positive attitude, flexibility, self-determination, or purpose in life (Wild et al., 2011; Ebner et al., 2006; Gattuso, 2003; Hardy et al., 2004; Ong et al., 2009; Resnick, 2014; Serrano-Parra et al., 2012).
Empirical evidence points out that resilience is a predictor of perceived health and wellbeing in old people even in the face of disease and adversity (Davydov et al., 2010; Lamond et al., 2008; Wiles et al., 2012) and this independently of social status (Wild et al., 2011). Therefore, the identification of resilient strategies during the life span is important for the implementation of interventions to promote mental health (Wahlbeck, 2015). An adequate measurement of resilience in the older adults is needed and important both for clinical practice and research (Resnick & Inguito, 2011).
The Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) is one of the scales used to measure resilience among the many available (for a review see Resnick, 2014). The BRCS is a short unidimensional scale that aims to assess people's ability to cope with stress adaptively, and it is of easy application and interpretation. The Spanish version of the BRCS has been extensively used in research with older adults in Spain (Perez-Blasco et al., 2016; Sales et al., 2015; Tomás et al., 2012a, 2012b). It has shown evidence of validity and reliability in samples of older adults in Spain (Navarro-Pardo et al., 2015; Tomás et al., 2012a, 2012b), in Peru (Caycho-Rodríguez et al., 2018), and also in its Portuguese versión in Portugal (Belo et al., 2016).
Assessing protective factors such as resilience can be a major challenge as they can vary by age group, different life circumstances, as well as between different countries and cultures (Hjemdal et al., 2015). Although BRCS has demonstrated good psychometric properties in older adults from different countries, its intercultural validity has not been evaluated, which is important since the meaning of resilience can vary according to different cultural contexts. There is no evidence on the measurement invariance of the Spanish version of the BRCS across Latin American and Spanish countries.
This measurement invariance is needed in order to make meaningful cross-cultural comparison among older adults in these countries (Byrne & Stewart, 2006). Measurement invariance is a key procedure for studies that compare two or more groups (gender, age, marital status, countries, cultures, etc.) because it tests the equivalence of the meaning of the items between the compared groups (Byrne, 2008; Inglés et al., 2008; Schoot et al., 2012). If the instrument shows a lack of invariance, then the comparisons between the groups are partial and not significant (Pedraza & Mungas, 2008), and the validity of empirical conclusions are not granted (Byrne, 2008). Therefore, cross-cultural comparisons are only possible if there is empirical evidence for measurement invariance (Taylor, 2013; Van der Schoot et al., 2012).
Currently, the evidence on the cultural factors that contextualize how resilience is defined and expressed on day to day in different populations is scarce, and accordingly the cross-cultural validation is absent (Boyden & Mann, 2005; Ungar, 2008). Likewise, the influence of age on resilience in different cultures has not been adequately demonstrated (Schönfeld et al., 2017). The absence of measurement invariance studies is not limited only to resilience, as the invariance in different psychological constructs has not been sufficiently analyzed either (Bieda et al., 2016; Borsboom, 2006). With all the aforementioned in mind, the research aim was: Is the BRCS factorially invariant in Peruvian and Spanish older adults’ samples?
Method
Sample and Procedure
Peruvian Sample
The Peruvian sample was composed of 236 older adults who were attending to Centers for older adults in the Peruvian city of Trujillo. A non-probability sampling for convenience was used based on the following inclusion criteria: (a) minimum age 60 years; (b) without any apparent physical (functional) or mental disability (dementia) and; (c) have given their informed consent. The data was previously used in a BRCS validation study in Peruvian older adults (Caycho-Rodríguez et al., 2018). The BRCS application was carried out individually or in small groups of a maximum of three participants. 78.4% of the participants were women and 21.6% were men. Mean age was 72.8 years (Sd = 6.90). Regarding marital status, 1.3% were single, 34.7% were married, 25.8% lived with a partner, 15.7% were divorced, and 22.5% were widows or widowers. 10.6% lived alone, 35.2% lived with their husband or wife, 26.7% lived with sons and/or daughters, 25.4% lived with husband or wife and sons or daughters, and finally 21% lived with other relatives. With respect to quality of life, 55.1% declare good or very good life quality, 39.4% average life quality and 5.5% a bad quality of life. The study protocol in Peru received ethical approval from the Universidad Privada del Norte.
Spanish Sample
The Spanish sample was composed of 133 Spanish community-dwelling older adults. The study received University of Valencia’s Ethic Board approval. The sample was recruited in four premises of an Association of elderly people in the City of Valencia (Spain). They were surveyed as part of their participation in formation seminars, and their participation was voluntary. All participants were over 60 years of age, had no apparent physical or mental disability, and gave their informed consent. The participants therefore were a convenience sample. Sample mean age was 71 years and 6 months (SD = 7 years). Most of the sample were women (69.9%). With respect to their educational level, 22.5% had no studies, 60.5% had primary studies, 14.7% studied secondary education, and only a 2.3% had university education. Their marital status was as follows: 66.9% married; 25.6% widows or widowers; 7.6% other status. 93.1% had living sons and/or daughters. Most of them 92.4% lived in their own houses, while the remaining 7.6% were living with their families. 19.1% lived alone in their own house, 56.5% with their partner (usually husband or wife), and 14.5% with other members of the family.
Instruments
For the purposes of this research, the participants had to answer the BRCS by Sinclair and Wallston (2004). This scale has four indicators highly adaptive and resilient to cope with stress. It was originally validated in a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The Spanish version was first validated by Tomás et al., 2012a, 2012b) who found that it was a valid and reliable measure of resilient coping.
Statistical Analyses
Reliability and dimensionality of the BRCS is studied in both samples. Cronbach’s alpha and Composite Reliability Index (CRI) were used to estimate the internal consistency of the scale. Cronbach's alpha is widely used as a measure of internal consistency, but it has several shortcomings, basically that it is only appropriate with essentially tau-equivalent items (and tests), and also that it is a lower bound for the true reliability (Raykov, 2004). An alternative to coefficient alpha is the omega coefficient. Item’s homogeneity was also estimated in the Peruvian and Spanish samples. Alphas, items’ homogeneity and Omegas were calculated with the results of the CFAs in Mplus 8.3 (Muthén & Muthén, 2011).
Dimensionality of the BRCS was analysed with CFAs estimated in Mplus 8.3. Given that samples from two populations (older adults in Peru and Spain) were available, a multi-group or measurement invariance routine was used. The method of estimation chosen has been Weighted Least Squares Mean and Variance corrected (WLSMV). This is the recommended method for ordinal and non-normal variables of five or less categories, as the ones in this study, and it has shown a very good behaviour in simulation studies (Finney & DiStefano, 2013). The invariance routine runs a set of CFAs (Thompson & Green, 2006). First, the theoretical model (one-factor solution) is separately estimated in each sample, and good fit in each sample is established. Second, a multi-group sequence of increasingly constrained CFAs, are estimated and tested (Kline, 2015). This sequence of multi-group models starts with the so-called configural model, that tests for pattern invariance or, in other words, it tests whether or not the same factor structure holds for the two groups simultaneously. If the configural model fits the data, a set of constraints on all factor loadings is imposed. This new multi-group CFA tests for metric or weak measurement invariance. If factor loadings are equal across the two samples, metric invariance holds, which means that respondents in the two samples attribute the same meaning to the latent construct under study. Then, another multigroup CFA with additional constraints on all item intercepts is estimated. This model tests for scalar or strong measurement invariance. If this model fits the data as well as the less constrained models then the meaning of the construct (the factor loadings), and the levels of the underlying items (intercepts) are equal in both groups. Accordingly, groups may be compared on their scores on the factor. Finally, a model with further constraints on all error (uniqueness) variances is estimated. This model tests for strict measurement invariance, although most researchers omit these constraints as not really needed for mean comparisons (Millsap & Olivera-Aguilar, 2012).
The measurement invariance models are nested and their relative plausibility (fit) must be assessed. Their plausibility was assessed using several fit criteria (Kline, 2015): (a) chi-square statistic; (b) the Comparative Fit Index (CFI; Bentler, 1990); the (c) the root mean squared error of approximation (RMSEA); and (d) the Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR). We have employed the cut-off points for adequate fit proposed by Hu and Bentler (1999) who suggested that a CFI of at least 0.95, a RMSEA less than 0.06 and a SRMR less than 0.08 together would indicate a very good fit of the model to the data. A note of caution is nevertheless needed here. It is well-known that the RMSEA works very poorly when the model evaluated has few degrees of freedom, such as the ones we are testing (Breivik & Olsson, 2001; Kenny et al., 2014). Therefore, RMSEA values were given for completeness, but they cannot really be trusted.
Nested models, as the ones in the invariance routine, can be compared with two rationales (Little, 1997): the statistical and the modeling one. The statistical rationale compares the χ2 of the alternative models, with non-significant values suggesting multi-group equivalence or invariance. However, this statistical approach has been criticized, mainly because of too much statistical power (Cheung & Rensvold, 2002). Accordingly, Little (1997), among many others, recommended a modeling approach that uses practical fit indices to determine the overall adequacy of a fitted model. From this rationale, if a parsimonious model (such as the ones that posit invariance) evinces adequate levels of practical fit, then the sets of equivalences are considered a reasonable approximation to the data. Practical fit is usually determined with CFI differences (ΔCFI). CFI differences lower than 0.01 (Cheung & Rensvold, 2002) or 0.05 (Little, 1997) are usually employed as cut-off criteria.
Results
Descriptive Statistics and Estimates of Reliability
Table 1 showed means, standard deviations, and measures of skewness and kurtosis of the four indicators in both samples. It also showed the item-total correlation (item homogeneity) for the BRCS items in both samples. All internal consistency estimates at the item level were adequate. Alpha coefficients were high both in Spain (0.83, 95% CI 0.76-0.87) as well as in Peru (0.87, 95% CI 0.84-0.91). Omegas were also high in Spain (0.82, 95% CI 0.75–0.86) and Peru (0.87, 95% CI 0.84–0.91).
Factorial Validity
In order to explore the dimensionality of the BRCS, two CFAs were estimated and tested separately in the Peruvian and Spanish samples. The model fitted reasonably well in the Peruvian sample: χ2 (2) = 9.16, p = 0.011, CFI = 0.996, TLI = 0.989, RMSEA = 0.123 [90% CI 0.051–0.209], SRMR = 0.012. Similar results were found for the Spanish sample: χ2 (2) = 10.56, p = 0.005, CFI = 0.986, TLI = 0.958, RMSEA = 0.182 [90% CI 0.085–0.297], SRMR = 0.026.
Measurement Invariance
Goodness-of fit indices for the set of measurement invariance models are presented in Table 2. The configural model, which can be considered a baseline model, fitted the data very well, with excellent CFI, TLI and SRMR. Then the weak invariance model (all factor loadings constrained to be equal) was tested, and compared to the configural model. A look at the fit-indices makes clear that factor loadings are invariant across samples. The chi-square difference test was non-significant, and the CFI and RMSEA even improved when factor loadings constraints were added. When all item intercepts were made invariant (strong or scalar invariance), model fit did not deteriorate. Although the chi-square difference test was statistically significant (p = 0.005), the impact on practical fit indices was negligible (CFI differences of 0.005) and even some of them improved (the RMSEA was 0.087). Therefore, the hypothesis of strong invariance was retained. Then a model with all errors constrained to equality in both groups was tested. If this model fitted the data as well as the strong invariance, it would be evidence that strict invariance holds. However, the model fit clearly deteriorated, with chi-square differences statistically significant and a clear drop in the practical fit, a CFI difference of 0.071, and larger indices of error. Therefore, the hypothesis of strict invariance was nor supported by the data.
Standardized factor loadings are presented in Fig. 1. All items had large relationships with the latent variables. Given that strong invariance holds for these two countries latent means may be compared. Mean difference between the two countries were statistically significant. Spanish older adults had a higher level of resilient coping, although the effect size was relatively low (Mean difference = 0.783, z = 2.47, p = 0.014, d = 0.27).
Discussion and Conclusions
This research aims to analyze, for the first time, the measurement invariance of the BRCS in older adults from two Spanish-speaking countries, one of them Spain and the other Peru. The results gave support to the scalar invariance in the two countries, but not to strict invariance.
In this sense, the assumptions of equal dimensionality (configural invariance), equivalence of factor loadings (metric invariance) and equal intercepts (scalar invariance) held, results that suggest that the scale works equally well in both Peruvian and Spanish old people samples. In the three models of invariance (configural, metric and scalar), the RMSEA was not within the limits of the cut-off criteria that shows adequate fit. Nevrtheless, this information is not relevant given that in models with small degrees of freedom, as the one we are analyzing, this index does not perform well and should not be used for assessing fit (Byrne, 1998; Kenny et al., 2014; Taasoobshirazi & Wang, 2016). The value of the RMSEA increases as the degrees of freedom and the sample size decrease (Kline, 2015; McCallum et al., 1996) and the other fit indices gave support to scalar invariance. On one hand, it can be concluded that the scale is scalar invariant, an important finding that points out that increment in the level of resilience in the Peruvian sample implies the same increment in the Spanish sample. Or, in other words, the results pointed out that the old people in both countries interpreted the items in the same way (Hjemdal et al., 2015). On the other hand, data did not support strict invariance (equality of item errors). Nevertheless, literature on measurement invariance points out that strict invariance is a very restrictive analysis, and also that if not met it does not compromise the conclusions on sample comparisons (Byrne, 2008). Absence of strict invariance could be associated to cultural, educative, religious, or even perceptual differences with respect to quality of life even among countries who share the same language (Inglehart et al., 2008).
Despite the lack of strict invariance, results admit the presence of a single equivalent factor of resilience, which indicates the absence of differential item functioning in the scale, being an equally accurate measure for the samples of Peruvian and Spanish older adults (Dimitrov, 2010). Thus, the capacity of both samples to cope with stress in an adaptive way configures into a single dimension. Having into account the solid psychometric properties of the BRCS in samples of older adults in different countries (Belo et al., 2016; Caycho et al., 2017; Navarro-Pardo et al., 2015; Tomás et al., 2012a, 2012b), as well as its use in different research on wellbeing and quality of life of the older adults (Pérez-Blasco, et al., 2016; Sales et al., 2015; Tomás et al., 2012a, 2012b), our results allow to consider the BRCS a valid instrument to develop cross-cultural studies on resilience in the Latin American context.
Results may be considered rather provisional, as many other Latin American countries could come into comparison. An adequate interpretation of the results should carefully consider the presence of certain limitations. First, the participants are older adults living in the cities of Trujillo (Peru) and Valencia (Spain), but they belong to convenience samples which are not representative of the older adults’ populations in these countries. Second, the evidence corresponds only to two Spanish-speaking countries. These countries share important cultural characteristics, such as language (Spanish) and religion (Roman Catholic), and therefore other cross-countries measurement invariance studies on the BRCS would be of great interest. This is of particular interest since contextual and economic characteristics have influence on personal resources of the older adults (Lerner et al., 2012). However, there is a need to collect larger samples of different cultural contexts, and to analyze the invariance with respect to other variables, such as gender and age, to better understand the different levels of resilience in all groups. In addition, there is a clear difference between the number of men and women in both countries, where 78.4% and 69.9% of the Peruvian and Spanish participants were women, respectively. In particular, this difference may be important, considering that, in general, women seem to be more resilient than men (MacLeod et al., 2016). The high levels of resilience in older adult women are explained by a better establishment of social connections, seeking support from others, and participation in volunteering and community activities (Kinsel, 2005). However, other studies have not shown conclusive results, as some mention a greater resilience in men (Hirani et al., 2016; Stratta et al., 2013) and others reveal a higher level of resilience in women. (Meng et al., 2019). This lack of consistency between results may be due to social and cultural variations (Meng, et al., 2019). Likewise, the absence of evidence on the invariance of the measurement between genders does not allow us to infer the reasons for these differences. To the best of our knowledge, no study has evaluated the invariance of the BRCS measurement among older adults of both genders. Finally, the number of participants was different in both countries and this could have affected the results of factorial invariance (Yoon & Lai, 2018). Therefore, future research should work with similar sample sizes from different countries to obtain more robust conclusions.
Nevertheless, the evidence shown by this research is sufficient to conclude that the BRCS is a short measure of resilience that has shown good psychometric properties and scalar invariance in the two countries. These results support the use of the BRCS in comparative studies of older adults in Peru and Spain.
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Tomas, J.M., Caycho-Rodríguez, T., Ventura-León, J. et al. Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) in Peruvian and Spanish Older Adults. J Cross Cult Gerontol 36, 431–444 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-021-09441-z
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Keywords
- Older adults
- Factorial invariance
- Resilience