Academic Resilience Scale for Adolescents in Turkey: Relationship with School Burnout and School Attachment

Abstract

Academic resilience is the capacity of students who encounter various risk factors to show positive adaptation despite these difficulties. The aim of this study is to develop a multidimensional scale, based on Ecological Systems Theory, to determine adolescent students' levels of academic resilience and the resources of academic resilience they have. For this purpose, a scale study was carried out with a sample group consisting of 695 students who continue their secondary and high school education. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to find out the factor structure of the developed scale. A scale consisting of 27 items and four sub-dimensions was formed. Confirmatory Factor Analysis revealed that the scale's factor structure showed good fit. Secondary factor analysis also confirmed that the sub-dimensions meaningfully converged under the superstructure of academic resilience. The findings show that all sub-dimensions made a meaningful contribution to the superstructure. Furthermore, negative relationships were found between academic resilience and school burnout, while positive relationships were found with school attachment.