Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire Revised (ARQ)

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Instrument Overview

The revised Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) consists of 93 items across 12 scales, assessing resilience factors in five domains: individual, family, peers, school, and community. This pen-and-paper questionnaire uses a five-point Likert scale, with responses ranging from 1 (Never) to 5 (All the time). It provides a comprehensive measure by examining resilience at each ecological level relevant to adolescents.

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
Post secondary,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Management ; Self Awareness ; Negative Cognition ; Emotional Insight ; Affective Empathy ; Sociability Confidence ; Connectedness ; Availability of support ; Supportive Environment ; Resilience
Languages
English,
Spanish,
Dutch,
Hindi,
Persian,
Portuguese,
Greek,
Filipino,
Nepali
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
10-15 minutes
Administration
Paper

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Psychometric References

Cheraghi, M. A., Ebadi, A., Gartland, D., Ghaedi, Y., & Fomani, F. K. (2017). Translation and validation of "Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire” for Iranian adolescents. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 240-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2016.12.001

Gartland, D., Bond, L., Olsson, C. A., Buzwell, S., & Sawyer, S. M. (2011). Development of a multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents: the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11(1), 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-134

Guilera, G., Pereda, N., Paños, A., & Abad, J. (2015). Assessing resilience in adolescence: The Spanish adaptation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 13(1), 100. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-015-0259-8

Marici, M. (2015). Some psychometric properties of the family domain in the "Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire”. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 187, 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.03.054

Singh, R., Mahato, S., Singh, B., Bhushal, S., & Fomani, F. K. (2019). Psychometric properties of adolescent resilience questionnaire among Nepalese adolescents in Lalitpur. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 13-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2019.08.002