Felgueiras, Marta CFestas, ConstançaVieira, Margarida2011-07-012011-07-012010FELGUEIRAS, Marta C; FESTAS, Constança; VIEIRA,Margarida - Adaptação e validação da Resilience Scale de Wagnild e Young para a cultura portuguesa. Cadernos de Saúde. ISSN 1647-0559. Vol. 3, n.º 1 (2010), 73 - 80http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/4629The purpose of these study is describe cross-cultural adaptation and validation to the Portuguese culture of the Resilience Scale® (RS) which was originally created in English idiom, in USA by Wagnild and Young (1993) used to identify resilience levels. A team of bilingual and bicultural translators participated in the translation process to enhance the lingustic accuracy and cultural correlation. The scale was adapted for a sample of students from a public school in Viana do Castelo Portugal. Participants were 215 students between 10-16 years of age. One item were excluded for showing low item-total correlation (lower than 0,2) and also because it decreased internal consistency. Reliability was evaluated by internal consistency (cronbach’s alpha) and stability over time (test-retest analysis). Cronbach’s alpha was 0,82 which showed good internal consistency and test-retest correlation, tested in a sub-group of 30 students validity was determinated by expert hurries, construct validation was determinate by principal components analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation to determine the number of components, and sensibility by the student test applied to the item discrimination index. The mean score on RS was 126,26. Perseverance, self-reliance, equanimity, meaningfulness and existential aloneness emerged as components from the principal components analysis. These results provide evidence for the reliability and validity of the Portuguese adapted version of the RS to measure resilience in the Portuguese culture and we conclude that this is a useful instrument for studies which proposes to evaluate resilience and to guide nursing practice. However we concluded the necessity of a new revalidation studies.porResilience ScaleResilienceNursingScaleCross cultural adaptationValidityReliabilityjournal article