CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF ACADEMIC RESILIENCE SCALE

The paper deals in detail with the development and standardization of Academic Resilience Scale for Kashmiri migrant adolescents. At the initial stage, the scale consisted of 93 items. Then number of items was reduced to 68 after extensive scrutiny by the subject experts. Subsequently item-analysis was carried out. Finally, a set of 55 items were retained for the final scale. The final version of the academic resilience scale consists of 40 positive and 15 negative items. The test- retest reliability was found to be 0.72. The concurrent validity of the scale was assured by evaluation from subject experts.