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VIOLENCE AND VICTIMS
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 735-755Publisher
SPRINGER PUBLISHING CO
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00163
Keywords
resilience; protective factors; confirmatory factor analysis; violence; trauma
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This research developed the Scale of Protective Factors (SPF-24) to measure protective factors contributing to resilience. We investigated the factor structure of 35 items. After exploratory factor analysis, we subjected 25 items representing 2 social-interpersonal and 2 cognitive-individual factors to confirmatory factor analysis. The sample consisted of 942 college students from 3 studies and 2 institutions. To examine the diagnostic function of the SPF, we used clinical criteria to identify a subsample of participants who had experienced violent trauma and scored low, moderate, or high on an established resilience scale. Results showed that the low-resilient group scored significantly lower on all subscales of the SPF with marked differences in prioritizing/planning behavior. Implications for the research and clinical settings are discussed.
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