فریده السادات حسینی

Purpose: Regarding to importance of family resilience domain and wide spreading the implications of focus on resilience in family, in this research, the family resiliency construction has been considered as a necessary research requirement. Family resiliency refers to the family ability to cope with changes in critical circumstances, and regenerate in the midst of disruptive states, and to restore family balance. Based on this, the present research has been accumulated for study about psychometric properties of family resiliency scale. Methods: 320 students (182 female and 138 male) of Kazerun Salman Farsi University that were selected by multistage cluster sampling, completed Family resiliency Scale, Meaning in Life Scale and Posttraumatic Growth Scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to check the construct validation, and to examine the convergent validity, relationship coefficients among family resilience, meaning in life, and posttraumatic growth have been used. Coronbach Alpha and split half coefficient has also been used to check the reliability of family resilience scale. Findings: Based on factor analyses results the three factor model of family resiliency fitted well with empirical data. So, Family Resiliency Scale with communication and problem solving processes, religion and social resource and family belief as a total system about adversity subscales can assess how family resilience with problems and difficulties. Also results confirm convergent validation of Family Resiliency Scale whit other related scales. Reliability of total scale and subscales has been confirmed with alpha cronbach and split-half coefficients. Conclusion: On the base of this finding, family resilience scale is a valid and reliable instrument to measure family resilience in Iranian families.