Objective: To revise the Resilient Trait Scale for Chinese adults(RTSCA) among Chinese civil servants and assess the scale's reliability and validity. Methods: The Resilient Trait Scale were applied to measure the resilience of civil servants in China, and the reliability and validity of the Resilient Trait Scale were assessed by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Item 22 was deleted by item analysis and exploratory factor analysis. The revised Resilient Trait Scale contained 4 factors, optimism, acceptance, controllability and supportiveness, and the scale consisted of 29 items. The correlation coefficients between items and the total score were above 0.4, and the factor loadings were over 0.3. The accumulating explanatory rate of the 4 factors was 57.769%. The construct validity and criterion validity of the scale met the psychometrics requirements. Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.922. Cronbach's α coefficient of optimism, acceptance, controllability and supportiveness factors was 0.865, 0.907, 0.901 and 0.787, respectively. The composite reliability of optimism, acceptance, controllability and supportiveness was 0.825, 0.845, 0.882 and 0.781, respectively. Conclusion: The revised Resilient Trait Scale is a reliable tool to assess the resilience level of Chinese civil servants.
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