Psychometric features of the Academic Resilience Scale-Short Version (ARS-SV): A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling Study

FREIBERG HOFFMANN, A.; ROMERO MEDINA, A.; VIGH, C.; SANCHEZ ROSAS, J.; FERNÁNDEZ LIPORACE, M.M.

Adversity and Resilience Science

Springer

Año: 2024 vol. 5

Academic resilience is the ability to achievesuccessful results in educational challenges. Since it accurately predictsacademic achievement and retention in undergraduates, measuring it isessential. The study aimed at developing a short version of the AcademicResilience Scale (ARS) as well as testing the bifactor model, posed in priorresearch as an alternative to first-order structures. Items were altered to becomelinguistically suitable for the target population and examined in terms ofcontent. An exploratory factor analysis (300 undergraduates) retained 12 out ofthe 30 items —four per dimension— considering their content and metricfeatures. Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modellinganalysis tested and compared different models in 805 undergraduates. As aresult, the bifactor ESEM model including three independent dimensions and aglobal dimension was selected due to its better fit. The short scale enables avalid, reliable and fast assessment of academic resilience in undergraduates.