@article{ref1,
title="The development of the scale of protective factors: resilience in a violent trauma sample",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2015",
author="Ponce-Garcia, Elisabeth and Madewell, Amy N. and Kennison, Shelia M.",
volume="30",
number="5",
pages="735-755",
abstract="This research developed the Scale of Protective Factors (SPF-24) to measure protective factors contributing to resilience. We investigated the factor structure of 35 items. After exploratory factor analysis, we subjected 25 items representing 2 social-interpersonal and 2 cognitive-individual factors to confirmatory factor analysis. The sample consisted of 942 college students from 3 studies and 2 institutions. To examine the diagnostic function of the SPF, we used clinical criteria to identify a subsample of participants who had experienced violent trauma and scored low, moderate, or high on an established resilience scale. <br><br>RESULTS showed that the low-resilient group scored significantly lower on all subscales of the SPF with marked differences in prioritizing/planning behavior. Implications for the research and clinical settings are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00163",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00163"
}