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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.

Indices and scales are inevitably examined for mental health and psychological impacts of disasters. A recent effort looks at secondary school students in Indonesia.

A paper by four Indonesian researchers titled “Development and validation of the Student Social Resilience Scale for Disasters (SSRD) among adolescents in disaster-prone areas” was published in the journal BMC Psychology.

Detailing the research

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.

The statements were adapted to be relevant for this study’s context and were translated into Indonesian, the official language of Indonesia. An example (in English) is the scale’s original statement of “My friends stand by me during difficult times” which became “My friends are always ready to help and be with me in emergencies”. Another example is altering “Spiritual beliefs are a source of strength for me” to “My spiritual beliefs are a source of strength in my daily life and give me the strength to face emergencies”.

The study sought to validate this particular scale, the Student Social Resilience Scale........

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