The Brief Resilience Scale

The root of the English word “resilience” is the word “resile,” which means “to bounce or spring back” +salire- “to jump, leap”; In line with this definition, this scale assesses the ability to bounce back or recover from stress.

Instructions:
To the left of each item, indicate how much you disagree or agree with each of the statements, using the
following scale:

1. I tend to bounce back quickly after hard times. *
🙁
🙂
2. I have a hard time making it through stressful events *
🙁
🙂
3. It does not take me long to recover from a stressful event. *
🙁
🙂
4. It is hard for me to snap back when something bad happens. *
🙁
🙂
5. I usually come through difficult times with little trouble. *
🙁
🙂
6. I tend to take a long time to get over setbacks in my life. *
🙁
🙂
ItemScore
No.1
No.2 (R)
No. 3
No. 4 (R)
No. 5
No. 6 (R)
Note: Reverse coded items are indicated with an R.

Scoring
To compute the score, first reverse the scores of items 2, 4, and 6. Reversing a score is done by exchanging the original value of an item by its opposite value: a score of 1 becomes a score of 5, a score of 2 becomes a 4, and so on. Subsequently, add up all the individual item scores. A weighted score can be calculated by dividing the total score by the number of items, in this case, 6.

Higher scores reflect more resilience.

Total Score (sum of all subscales):

Weighted Score (Total Score /6):