Measuring national resilience: A new short version of the scale (NR-13)

Shaul Kimhi; Yohanan Eshel

doi:10.1002/jcop.22135

Measuring national resilience: A new short version of the scale (NR-13)

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This article is aimed at describing and validating a new short version of the National Resilience Scale (NR-13). The available 25-item National Resilience Scale has been employed and validated by several studies. However, the present data show that it can be substantially shortened without losing either its reliability or its validity. The new short version of the scale has been examined by the responses of an Israeli sample of adults (N = 1022). Results indicate, as expected, that national resilience promoting factors (community resilience and sense of coherence) significantly and positively predict NR-13. A resilience-suppressing factor (sense of danger) negatively and significantly predicts NR-13. These predictions have been replicated in an additional sample of Israeli higher education students (N = 423). These results support the reliability and the validity of the short National Resilience Scale (NR-13).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	517-528
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Community Psychology
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22135
State	Published - Apr 2019
Externally published	Yes

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