Key points
- The Student Social Resilience Scale for Disasters was developed and tested for Indonesia.
- Psychological disaster resilience requires a combination of individual and community influences.
- The process of completing the survey can support teenagers’ psychological disaster resilience.
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The study’s sample comprised 800 randomly selected secondary school students aged 15 to 18, balanced by gender across Indonesia. They were given the Student Social Resilience Scale for Disasters comprising 28 statements which they had to rank on a Likert scale from 1 to 5.
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The study sought to validate this particular scale, the Student Social Resilience Scale for Disasters, and it states that it did so. Of particular importance was adapting the original scale for disasters, demonstrating that such changes could and should be made to ensure that the scale becomes relevant for a particular topic.
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Cultural biases can intrude. An implicit construction in a Likert scale is that the distance is the same between each choice of the scale. Different people and different cultures might view the distances between each number as different, depending on how the central option (often presumed to be neutral) is considered in comparison to less central numbers such as 1 and 5.
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