Clinical Study

Sources of Life Strengths Appraisal Scale: A Multidimensional Approach to Assessing Older Adults’ Perceived Sources of Life Strengths

Table 4

Correlation coefficients of SLSAM scales with outcome measures of global resilience and its four subscales of perceived challenge, controlled processing, commitment to living (DRS: dispositional resilience scale, Bartone et al., 1989 [15]) administered at 24-month followup from date of baseline assessments of the SLSAS measure (sample = 150).

Global Perceived challenge Controlled processing Commitment to living

SLSAS Scale
 Personal self-efficacy beliefs .51***  .56***   .53***   .67***
 Personal maturity .31**  .29**   .26**   .31**
 Personal traits .39***  .43***   .29*   .27**
 Self-care routines .21*  .21*   .15   .29**
 Personal commitments .49***  .47***   .46***   .51***
 Attitudes toward life .46**  .54***   .45***   .31**
 Personal achievements  .17  .16   .21*   .16
 Social supports: informal sources .21*   .23*   .22*   .25*
 Monetary status  .22*  .26*   .22*   .20*
 Continuity in mid-life roles  .28*  .46***   .38***   .40***

High scores indicate high global resilience, high level of perceived challenge, high level of controlled processing, and high level of commitment to living.
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