The brief resilience scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back

Abstract

The BRS is a reliable means of assessing resilience as the ability to bounce back or recover from stress and may provide unique and important information about people coping with health-related stressors.

Social-ecological factors associated with selling sex among men who have sex with men in Jamaica: results from a cross-sectional tablet-based survey

“…Intrapersonal/individual factors assessed included: HIV status (positive/negative; assessed by self-report), lifetime STI history (positive/negative, measured by self-report of having received an STI test and the results with a diagnosis), depression symptoms in the past 2 weeks (continuous, measured with Patient Health Questionnaire-2 [59], scale range 0–8, Cronbach’s α = 0.67); resilient coping, measured using the Brief Resilience Scale [60] (continuous six-item scale, range 6–30, Cronbach’s α = 0.66), safer sex self-efficacy, using Kalichman et al’s (2001) scale for negotiating safer sex (continuous, range: 5–20, Cronbach’s alpha: 0.75), and internalized homophobia, using the 12-item version of the Internalized Homophobia Scale developed by Currie et al [61] (continuous 12-item scale, range 12–77, Cronbach’s α = 0.50). We also assessed lifetime number of sexual partners (continuous) and consistent condom use in the last 4 weeks (no/yes; participants were coded as ‘yes’ if there was parity in the number of times they reported having sex and the number of times they reported using condoms).…”

The cognitive and hedonic costs of dwelling on achievement-related negative experiences: Implications for enduring happiness and unhappiness.

“…For example, the SHS has demonstrated high internal consistency (␣s range from .85 to .95 in seven different studies), a unitary structure, high test-retest stability (r ϭ .90 for 4 weeks and 0.71 for 3 months), and a strong association with informant ratings (r ϭ .65). It further has shown high correlations with measures of theoretically related constructs, such as resilience (r ϭ .45; Smith et al, 2008), optimism (rs range from .47 to .62 in four studies; Scheier & Carver, 1985), self-esteem (rs range from .53 to .58 in four studies; Rosenberg, 1965), extraversion (r ϭ .36; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975), and positive emotionality (r ϭ .48; Tellegen, 1985), suggesting that happiness is related, but not equivalent, to these constructs. For more detailed information on this measure, see Lyubomirsky and Lepper (1999). of feedback (relative failure-relevant, relative failure-nonrelevant, and control).…”

Family systems and mental health issues: a resilience approach

“…If it's under pressure or something it can actually spring back to its size and shape and carry on without sustaining undue damage" (p.6). Interestingly this image of resilience as a 'rubber ball' and 'bouncing back' is an expression that has been used in other research and literature (see Smith, Dalen, Wiggins, Tooley, Christopher, & Bernard, 2008 who developed a Brief Resilience Scale assessing the ability to 'bounce back').…”