Developing a Culturally Relevant Measure of Resilience for War-Affected Adolescents in Eastern Ukraine
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2021
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Bogdanov, Sergiy
Girnyk, Andriy
Chernobrovkina, Vira
Chernobrovkin, Volodymyr
Vinogradov, Alexander
Harbar, Kateryna
Kovalevskaya, Yuliya
Basenko, Oksana
Ivanyuk, Irina
Hook, Kimberly
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Psychosocial support in education that is provided during emergencies frequently aims to support children’s resilience, but strong, contextual measures of resilience are in short supply in Eastern Europe. In this article, our aim is to describe the development and psychometric properties of the first measure of resilience for waraffected adolescents in Eastern Ukraine. We used qualitative methods to identify the main cultural characteristics of resiliency and then used these constructs to develop the measure. We used exploratory structural equation modeling to extract five factors that showed high internal consistency: family support (ω=0.89), optimism (ω=0.87), persistence (ω=0.87), health (ω=0.86), and social networking (ω=0.87). Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that a concise model of resiliency fit the data almost as well as the exploratory structural equation modeling model. The measure demonstrated good test-retest reliability. In this article, we also discuss the importance of development, validation, and the use of culturally relevant measures of resilience for strengthening psychosocial support programs in schools, particularly in Ukraine.
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psychosocial support, children’s resilience, waraffected, military conflict, article
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Developing a Culturally Relevant Measure of Resilience for War-Affected Adolescents in Eastern Ukraine / Sergiy Bogdanov, Andriy Girnyk, Vira Chernobrovkina, Volodymyr Chernobrovkin, Alexander Vinogradov, Kateryna Harbar, Yuliya Kovalevskaya, Oksana Basenko, Irina Ivanyuk, Kimberly Hook, and Mike Wessells // Journal on Education in Emergencies. - 2021. - Vol. 7, No. 2. - P. 311-334. - https://doi.org/10.33682/wxrd-x8fq