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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale.

CD-RISC

What it measures
Stress-coping ability / resilience (hardiness, persistence, adaptability, control, spirituality); a protective-factor construct closely tied to stress and anxiety outcomes
Length and format
25 (CD-RISC-25); 10-item (CD-RISC-10) and 2-item (CD-RISC-2) short forms. 5-point (0-4, not true at all to true nearly all the time), summed 0-100 (25-item) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ languages incl. ES, ZH, KO, FR, DE, IT, PT, AR, TR and many more; among the most-used resilience measures globally
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Connor, K. M., & Davidson, J. R. T. (2003). Development of a new resilience scale: the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Depression and Anxiety, 18(2), 76-82.

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