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Adaptation of "Nicholson McBride Resilience Questionnaire" (NMRQ) in Greek. A reliability and validity study in an epidemiological Greek sample

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Published: Dec 22, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.25629
Keywords:
Nicholson McBride Resilience Questionnaire NMRQ Greek version Greek adaptation Resilience Questionnaire Health Psychology Questionnaire
Georgios Pilafas
MSc, MSc(c), Research Associate, Psychology Research Center, City Unity College
Nefeli Paraskevi Strongylaki
MSc(c), MBPsS, Research Associate, Psychology Research Center, City Unity College, Athens
Dimitrios Papaioannou
MSc(c), Research Associate, Psychology Research Center, City Unity College, Athens
Despina Menti
PgDip, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, EuroPsy, Psychology & Health Psychology Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Cardiff Metropoli-tan University at City Unity College, Athens, Greece; and Registered Practitioner ‘Health Psychologist’ with HCPC, UK
Georgios Lyrakos
MSc, MPH, PhD, PostDoc, Program Director of ‘MSc Health Psychology’, Department of Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University at City Unity College, Athens, Greece; and ‘Clinical Health Psychologist’, Psychiatric Department, General Public Hospital of Nikaia ‘Ayios Panteleimon’, Athens
Abstract

Introduction: ‘Psychological Resilience’ is one of the key elements in human behavior that interplays with stress in mental disorders and physical illnesses in both healthy and unhealthy populations, regardless of their biopsychosocial background. Therefore, a reliable and valid resilience questionnaire for clinical and research use is of great necessity.

Aim: Hence, the present study was conducted in order for the original English version of ‘Nicholson McBride Resilience Questionnaire’ (NMRQ) to be adapted in the Greek population.

Methods & Materials: The original English NMRQ consists of 12 items measuring resilience. It is a self-reported questionnaire, while each respective item is measured through a 5-Likert scale point system. The design of the study was developed to firstly translate the original English questionnaire in Greek, and secondly to test the new version upon its ‘item consistency’, ‘internal correlation’, ‘internal consistency’, ‘consistency validity’, and finally perform a ‘factor analysis’ after recruiting a Greek sample.

Results: The results show 80% validity (Cronbach’s alpha=.800) of the new Greek version. The number of participants (N= 1,158) provided to the study an ‘a priori’ odds ratio of 1.274, a critical z of 1.6448 and an actual power of 95%. The Greek translation was considered accurate, while the new version maintained a good item consistency.

Conclusion: It is proposed that the Greek version of NMRQ may be adapted in the Greek population in clinical and research related to resilience and stress, as well as for any future studies to test-retest its validity and reliability.

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