ABSTRACT The factorial structure, reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, as well as factorial invariance of the 10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) were determined. The sample was composed of 330 students (174 medical students and 156 psychology students) with a mean age of 20.20 years (SD = 2.33). The results obtained confirm the unidimensional structure of the scale (χ2/df = 3.06, GFI = .93, CFI = .92, NFI = .90, TLI = .92, RMSEA = .08, and SRMR = .04), the factorial invariance with respect to career, and good internal consistency (ω = .85 and α = .85). A statistically significant difference in the level of resilience between medical students (M = 20.64, SD = 4.48) and psychology students (M = 20.27, SD = 4.51) was found [t(281) = 2.65, p = .009, d = .20]. Evidence of convergent and discriminant validity of CD-RISC10 with happiness and perceived stress ...

ABSTRACT The aims of the present study were to investigate the relationship between: a) Patristic ideology and mentalist and behaviorist beliefs, and b) the relationship between mentalist and behaviorist beliefs and cognitive, neuropsychological and interbehavioral beliefs. The beliefs were assessed through an instrument purposely built for this research. A sample composed of 284 university students of first-semester psychology (84 men and 200 women; mean ages M = 17.82 years, SD = 2.34, range 16-38 years) were enrolled. After performing structural equation modelling (SEM), results show that patristic ideology is not related to behaviorism (β = .09, p = .387), but it is related with mentalism (β = .26, p = .042), also the mentalism is related with cognitive beliefs (β = .72, p =.001) and neuropsychological beliefs (β = .87, p = .014), while behaviorism is related with interbehavioral...