Resilience (BRS)
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Resilience is the ability to cope with difficulties. The term resilience is often used in the medical world to describe patients' coping ability. Windle and colleagues (2011) wrote a great review paper about resilience scales, and concluded:
Sample item(s)
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Notes
Psychology field scale. Check the PsyToolkit page and original paper for use rights before fielding.
Source & citation
Smith, B.W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P. and Bernard, J. (2008). The Brief Resilience Scale: Assessing the Ability to Bounce Back. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine,15 , 194-200. | Smith, B.W., Epstein, E.E., Oritz, J.A., Christopher, P.K., & Tooley, E.M. (2013). The Foundations of Resilience: What are the critical resources for bouncing back from stress? In Prince-Embury, S. & Saklofske, D.H. (Eds.), Resilience in children, adolescents, and adults: Translating research into practice , The Springer series on human exceptionality (pp. 167-187). New York, NY: Springer. | Windle, G., Bennett, K.M., & Noyes, J. (2011). A methodological review of resilience measurement scales. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 9:8. Get this open access article .
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