Brief Resilience Scale.

BRS

What it measures

resilience; ability to bounce back / recover from stress

Length and format

6 items. 5-point Likert (strongly disagree to strongly agree); 3 positive + 3 negative items (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Validated in many languages incl. German, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Malay

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

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.