Promising Practices for School Organization of Mental Health Supports
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The brief resilience scale (BRS) was created to assess the ability to bounce back or recover from stress. The BRS is comprised of 6 items. Items 1, 3, and 5 are positively worded while items 2, 4, and 6 are negatively worded. The BRS is scored by reverse coding items 2, 4, and 6, and finding the mean of the 6 items. The Likert Scale for the BRS is as follows: 1=strongly disagree, 2=disagree, 3=neutral, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Management ; Resilience
Languages
English,
Spanish,
German
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
6 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Bruce W. Smith
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico
bwsmith@unm.edu (505) 277-0643
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Anywhere
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Karaman, M. A., Vela, J. C., Aguilar, A. A., Saldana, K., & Montenegro, M. C. (2019). Psychometric properties of US-Spanish versions of the grit and resilience scales with a Latinx population. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 41(1), 125-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-018-9350-2 Kyriazos, T. A., Stalikas, A., Prassa, K., Galanakis, M., Yotsidi, V., & Lakioti, A. (2018). Psychometric evidence of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and modeling distinctiveness of resilience from depression and stress. Psychology, 9(7), 1828-1857. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2018.97107.
Smith, B. W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P., & Bernard, J. (2008). The Brief Resilience Scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 15(3), 194-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705500802222972
Tansey, T. N., Kaya, C., Moser, E., Eagle, D., Dutta, A., & Chan, F. (2016). Psychometric validation of the brief resilience scale in a sample of vocational rehabilitation consumers. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 59(2), 108-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034355215573539
