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Objective: Spiritual fortitude is a relatively new construct in psychological research with promising insights for helping individuals navigate challenges throughout life that trait enabling people to endure and make redemptive meaning from adversity through their sacred connections with God, others, and themselves. The main objective of this study is to standardize the version of the spiritual fortitude questionnaire translated into Persian. Method: The present study is a descriptive-survey. The research population includes students of Isfahan University. The sample in this study consists of 380 students of Isfahan University who completed the spiritual Fortitude questionnaire (Van Tongeren etal, 2019). Mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis were used to analyze the data. Finding: The reliability coefficient Cronbach's alpha of the factors was 0.82. Moreover confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis showed that this questionnaire is confirmed in this sample. The content validity of the questionnaire was also confirmed by five experts. Conclusions:This study showed that the spiritual Fortitude questionnaire is a sufficient and effective instrument. Spiritual fortitude seems to be a useful structure to understand the process of adaptation and flourishing in the midst of calamities, sufferings and injuries.