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This study aimed to develop a Strengths Measurement Scale (SMS) for assessment of people in the process of transforming their own lifestyle, and to examine the reliability and validity of the SMS. This is to establish a foothold for introducing the Strengths Model into health guidance for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases. We conducted an anonymous, voluntary questionnaire survey with our SMS comprising 38 items proposed in a preliminary investigation. In total, 1,339 Japanese adults participated, and responses from 1,160 participants (effective response rate of 86.6%) were analyzed. We calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficient for testing the reliability. To test the validity, we examined the construct validity through exploratory factor analyses. Based on the results of the factor analysis performed on the 38 question items of the SMS, we adopted four factors and 36 question items. Cronbach's alpha coefficients of all the factors were 0.80 or above. There were significant, positive correlations between the SMS and the Modified Perceived Health Competence Scale (PHCS), and between the SMS and the Adolescent Resilience Scale (ARS). The reliability and validity of the SMS for the lifestyle transformation process were confirmed, suggesting that the scale is applicable to health guidance for preventing lifestyle-related diseases.

stable family environments during childhood and mot hers with past experience of being bullied.Conventional childcare support is mainly aimed at reducing the burden of childcare on parents having difficulty in raising children. For the future, it is important to ensure that support takes account of not only parents' difficulty in child-raising but also their resilience and leads them to develop themselves by utilizing their own abilities. Despite this, there has been no study reporting on childcare support from the perspective of resilience.The objective of this research is to find the features of the difficulty in child-raising and resilience of mothers with past experience of adversity. On the basis of the results thereof, we will consider the modality of childcare support from the perspective of resilience.

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