ACADEMIC RESILIENCE OF STUDENTS. VERIFICATION OF THE ADAPTATION OF THE UKRAINIAN VERSION OF THE ACADEMIC RESILIENCE SCALE (ARS-30ukr ) AMONG FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF BORYS GRINCHENKO KYIV METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Introduction. When studying the academic resilience of students, well-known scientists mainly use the Academic Resilience Scale, ARS-30. A review of available Internet sources shows that such a study is taking place in Ukraine for the first time. The aim of the study is to check the reliability of the Ukrainian version of the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30ukr) for students of higher educational institutions and to compare it with other studies regarding its validity. Material and methods. With their consent, 400 students who studied in the first year of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University were examined. The age of the examinees is 17-18 years, 80.3% are women, 19.7% are men. The survey was conducted according to the Ukrainian version of the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30ukr), the translation and previous research on its adequacy for the Ukrainian-speaking environment are our own. IBM SPSS Statistics software was used for statistical data processing. Results. The connections of the elements of the correlation matrix with high statistical significance (Determinant = 2.187E-11) were studied. Additional tests indicate sufficient adequacy (Kaiser-Meier-Olkin test = 0.972) and high sphericity (Barlett's test = 9527.9, p ˂ 0.001) of the sample. Cronbach's alpha, which is a reliability coefficient and a measure of the internal consistency of the items, for the subscale "perseverance" is excellent and is 0.95, for the subscales "reflecting and adaptive help-seeking" and "negative affect and emotional response" is good and is 0.90 and 0.85, respectively. Conclusions. The established values of the criteria of reliability and structural validity of the Ukrainian version of the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30ukr) testify to its good psychometric properties for the case study of students. The Ukrainian-language version of the ARS-30ukr questionnaire can be recommended for use in a Ukrainian-speaking social environment to study the academic resilience of higher education applicants.