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Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)

How quickly you bounce back after stress and setbacks. Six items, one minute.

6 items · About 1 min

How to answerEach statement describes how you deal with hard times. Choose how much you agree.

  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 set-backs in my life.
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About this scale

Unlike other resilience scales, the BRS measures one thing only: the ability to recover from stress. The score shown is the mean of the six items (1–5).

SourceSmith, 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.