Table 2. Factor loadings of the 25 Resilience Scale items obtained with maximum likelihood analysis and oblimin rotation.
| Item # | Item description | Resilience factors | |||
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| I | II | III | IV | ||
| 3 | I am able to depend on myself more than anyone else. | 0.999 | -0.008 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | I can be on my own if I have to. | 0.574 | 0.249 | 0.01 | 0.199 |
| 2 | I usually manage one way or another. | 0.474 | 0.542 | 0.093 | -0.021 |
| 17 | My belief in myself gets me through hard times. | 0.39 | 0.444 | 0.066 | -0.039 |
| 9 | I feel that I can handle many things at a time. | 0.367 | 0.164 | 0.194 | -0.006 |
| 4 | Keeping interested in things is important to me. | 0.336 | 0.533 | 0.165 | -0.354 |
| 21 | My life has meaning. | 0.297 | 0.726 | -0.229 | -0.027 |
| 10 | I am determined. | 0.285 | 0.433 | 0.289 | 0.183 |
| 15 | I keep interested in things. | 0.266 | 0.603 | 0.46 | -0.243 |
| 19 | I can usually look at a situation in a number of ways. | 0.254 | 0.691 | -0.204 | 0.026 |
| 16 | I can usually find something to laugh about. | 0.236 | 0.313 | -0.095 | -0.062 |
| 8 | I am friends with myself. | 0.223 | 0.46 | 0.085 | 0.072 |
| 14 | I have self-discipline. | 0.217 | 0.121 | 0.309 | 0.107 |
| 18 | In an emergency, I’m someone people can generally rely on. | 0.205 | 0.449 | 0.27 | 0.247 |
| 13 | I can get through difficult times because I’ve experienced difficulty before. | 0.197 | 0.443 | 0.281 | 0.117 |
| 1 | When I make plans, I follow through with them. | 0.192 | 0.283 | 0.285 | 0.221 |
| 7 | I usually take things in stride. | 0.156 | 0.127 | 0.01 | 0.158 |
| 6 | I feel proud that I have accomplished things in life. | 0.156 | 0.552 | 0.224 | -0.108 |
| 25 | It’s okay if there are people who don’t like me. | 0.153 | 0.335 | 0.164 | 0.299 |
| 23 | When I’m in a difficult situation, I can usually find my way out of it. | 0.152 | 0.486 | 0.158 | 0.332 |
| 24 | I have enough energy to do what I have to do. | 0.126 | 0.373 | 0.309 | 0.357 |
| 20 | Sometimes I make myself do things whether I want to or not. | 0.089 | 0.256 | 0.15 | -0.416 |
| 22 | I do not dwell on things that I can’t do anything about. | 0.072 | 0.092 | 0.055 | 0.119 |
| 11 | I seldom wonder what the point of it all is. | 0.051 | -0.095 | 0.085 | 0.129 |
| 12 | I take things one day at a time. | -0.012 | 0.14 | -0.07 | 0.306 |
| Eigenvalue | 6.5 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | |
| Variance (%) | 26.1 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 5.7 | |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.85 | 0.74 | 0.73 | 0.71 | |
Factor loadings greater than 0.3 are presented in bold.