Validation and Factor Analysis of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure for Indigenous Australian Boarding School Students

Introduction: Resilience is a strengths-based construct that is useful for understanding differences in health and wellbeing among youth. There are a range of validated survey instruments available to measure resilience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully Indigenous) youth. However, standard international instruments should only be used if they have been subjected to a rigorous cross-cultural adaptation process and...