ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Due to the stressful nature of nursing education, it is stated that academic resilience is an important skill for students. However, there is no measurement tool to determine nursing students' academic resilience in our country. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to adapt the nursing student academic resilience inventory to Turkish and determine its validity and reliability. DESIGN: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and methodological design was used. SETTING: The study was conducted with nursing students between May 2022 and June 2022. PARTICIPANTS: The study included 250 s, third, and fourth-year nursing students. METHODS: The data were collected using a personal information form, the nursing student academic resilience inventory and the resilience scale for nurses. RESULTS: The inventory showed a 6-factor structure, namely optimism, communication, self-esteem/evaluation, self-awareness, trustworthiness, and self-regulation and consisted of 24 items. In confirmatory factor analysis, all factor loads were found to be >0.30. The fit indexes of the inventory were χ2/df = 2.294, GFI = 0.848, IFI = 0.853, CFI = 0.850, RMSEA = 0.072, and SRMR = 0.067. Cronbach's alpha of the total inventory was 0.887. CONCLUSIONS: The Turkish version of the nursing student academic resilience inventory was shown to be a valid and reliable measurement tool.