Connor Davidson Resilience Scale and Flourishing Scale: Translation and Cultural Adaptation in Malayalam language

By : Aswini S, Amrita Deb

Page No: 275-283

Abstract
Research in the area of resilience and flourishing has gained considerable popularity under the influence of the positive psychology (PP) movement. However, several measures that assess these indicators of positive human functioning were developed in English and were intended for use among the English speaking population. In order to use these successfully in other cultural contexts, culturally adaptation of these questionnaires is necessary. This study was conducted to translate and culturally adapt the English versions of the Flourishing Scale (Diener et al., 2010) and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003) to Malayalam language following the World Health Organization’s (2016) guidelines. Alpha scores for both measures were considered satisfactory. The applicability of the translated questionnaires for the target population was found to be acceptable. Thus the translated versions may be considered as a contribution towards PP measures.

Authors :
Aswini S : PhD Scholar (Psychology) – Department of Liberal Arts – Indian Institute of Technology, Telangana-502285
Amrita Deb : Associate Professor of Psychology – Department of Liberal Arts – Indian Institute of Technology, Telangana-50228
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.02.4