Resilience Scale for Athletes

Athletes continually face a variety of stressors and adversities that may become a hurdle in performing well. resilience can help athletes to cope with such difficult situations. for this purpose the current study was designed to investigate the construct of resilience in athletes during their game. to explore the phenomenology of resilience coaches and players were interviewed. after interviews, a list of 27 items was retained in the resilience scale for athletes. afterwards, the scale was administered on 150 student athletes to establish the psychometric properties of the scale. factor analysis revealed three factors of resilience in sports including self determination, physical toughness and emotional control and maturity. the results indicated that the resilience scale had high internal consistency of .80. concurrent validity with indigenous resilience scale (naz, saleem & mahmood, 2010) was also established and was found to be .44. further the results were discussed in the cultural context