Validation of the French Canadian Version of the Brief Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 10)

Despite wide interest in the concept of resilience and its relevance to the study of a number of health issues, surprisingly few measures are available to assess the construct. This investigation was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the French Canadian brief version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 10; Campbell-Sills & Stein, 2007; Connor & Davidson, 2003). A sample of 784 college women completed the CD-RISC 10 and a series of questionnaires. Validity indices included the Personal Mastery Scale, the 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Scale, the Major Depression Inventory and selected anxiety items of the Brief Symptom Inventory. Measures of early trauma experienced (Early Trauma Inventory) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms (Modified PTSD Symptom Scale) were included to test the moderator influence of resilience. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis supported the unidimensional factor structure of the CD-RISC 10. Evidence of high internal consistency and correlations with criterion measures were found with the French Canadian version of the CD-RISC 10. In addition, path analysis revealed that the influence of trauma and adverse life events on PTSD symptoms was moderated by resilience scores on the CD-RISC 10. In sum, the data gathered in the present study provides initial support for the psychometric properties of the French Canadian version of the CD-RISC 10 scale.