Factor structure and reliability of the Family Resilience Scale (FRAS): adaptation with Colombian families exposed to stressful events

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dc.contributor.affiliationFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Medellín, Medellin, Colombia
dc.contributor.affiliationFacultad de Jurisprudencia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
dc.contributor.affiliationFacultad de Psicología, Universidad de san Buenaventura, Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
dc.contributor.affiliationFaculty of Health Sciences, Fundación Universitaria San Martín, Bogota, Colombia
dc.contributor.authorLondoño, P.A.
dc.contributor.authorTrujillo-Orrego, S.P.
dc.contributor.authorDuque-Monsalve, L.F.
dc.contributor.authorGiraldo-Cardona, L.S.
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-03T19:34:49Z
dc.date.available2025-12-03T19:34:49Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionAntecedents: Resilience is the ability to face adversity and transform adversity positively. This concept has been transposed from the individual to the family context. Elements like assertive communication, cooperation, optimism, and support networks can dynamize the interaction and communication between family members and strengthen a family’s resilience and ability to overcome problems in contexts of social or environmental risk. Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties, specifically the factor structure and internal consistency, of a spa-language adapted version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) for use with Colombian families exposed to stressful events. Method: A spa-language adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) was applied to a sample of 303 Colombian families living in the municipalities of Salgar (n = 120) and Barbosa (n = 183), Antioquia and affected by different stressful events (risk of natural disaster or armed conflict). Of the total sample, 227 were women (75.9%) and 76 were men (25.1%). The highest percentage, 129 people, were in the age range of 26 to 45 years (42.6%) followed by 86 people (27.4%) who were in the age range of 46 to 60 years. Most respondents (120 people - 39.6%) gave no information about their schooling, followed by 17.5% (53 people) who reported to have Secondary Complete. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis revealed an acceptable but borderline fit of the original six-factor model (e.g., CFI = 0.938, RMSEA = 0.084). Internal consistency was adequate for all dimensions (Ω ≥ 0.7). These findings suggest that while the theoretical structure holds up reasonably well in the Colombian sample, some dimensions may be related to the context that do not optimally capture all of its nuances. Invariance analysis supported the equivalence of the model across gender at all levels (configural, metric, scalar, and strict), suggesting that the scale performs consistently for both men and women. Conclusion: The results suggest that the adaptation of the FRAS is reliable for the evaluation of family resilience in the Colombian population. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1568139
dc.identifier.instnameinstname:Universidad de Medellínspa
dc.identifier.issn16641078
dc.identifier.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional Universidad de Medellínspa
dc.identifier.repourlrepourl:https://repository.udem.edu.co/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11407/9260
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SAspa
dc.publisher.facultyInstituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanasspa
dc.relation.citationvolume16
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dc.rights.accesoGold Open Access
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dc.sourceFrontiers in Psychology
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectCoping
dc.subjectFamily
dc.subjectProblem solving
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectStress
dc.titleFactor structure and reliability of the Family Resilience Scale (FRAS): adaptation with Colombian families exposed to stressful events
dc.typeArticle
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