The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)

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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. 

Content

Topics
Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags
Social and emotional learning,
Stress and coping
Grades
Post secondary
Languages
English
Spanish
Other
Other Language/s
German
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
6 items
Qualifications

None

Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Contact

Bruce W. Smith

Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico

bwsmith@unm.edu

(505) 277-0643

Link
https://gozen.com/wp-content/uploads/BRS.pdf
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research

Satici, S. A. (2016). Psychological vulnerability, resilience, and subjective well-being: The mediating role of hope. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 68-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.057

Shah, A. N., Beck, A. F., Sucharew, H. J., Litman, S., Pfefferman, C., Haney, J., Shah, S., Simmons, J., Auger, K., & H2O Study Group. (2018). Parental adverse childhood experiences and resilience on coping after discharge. Pediatrics, 141(4), e20172127. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-2127

Taylor, A. M., Ritchie, S. J., Madden, C., & Deary, I. J. (2020). Associations between Brief Resilience Scale scores and ageing-related domains in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Psychology and Aging, 35(3), 329-344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000419

Psychometrics

Scoring
Manual scoring
Referencing
Criterion-referenced
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

Item Type
Likert