Family resilience - definition of construct and preliminary results of the Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)

Abstract

background The article describes construct of family resilience with the main focus on the model Walsh. The aim of this article is to present preliminary results: Adaptation, reliability, statistical analyses of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) for the Polish population. participants and procedure Participants (n = 329), aged 18-35, completed experimental Polish version of the FRAS (SPR - Skala Preznosci Rodzinnej). In the procedure of adaptation, scale was translated and modified into Polish. Scale consists of the following subscales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Utilizing Social and Economic Resources, Maintaining a Positive Outlook, Family Connectedness, Family Spirituality and Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity. results The reliability of the experimental Polish version of the FRAS for the entire scale and five subscales are satisfactory. Only subscale Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity obtained reliability of less than 0.7. Taking into account the diversity of gender and declaring the passage through the difficult events were observed significant differences in the three scales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Family Connectedness, Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity and total scale of FRAS. conclusions The work on the questionnaire is still in progress and the results presented here should be considered as preliminary. In the next steps, the number of men should be increased in order to perform confirmatory factor analysis. Future studies should take into account a number of factors and contexts (e.g. family structure, social and cultural context and the type of stressful event).