Resilience Quiz

What is the Brief-Resilience Scale (BRS)?

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) is a self-assessment tool that measures a person’s resilience after stress or trauma.

The Brief Resilience Scale differs from other resilience scales because it does not attempt to measure or even identify personal characteristics and social resources that someone may possess or develop to help promote adaptation.

The Brief Resilience Scale was developed purely to assess the concept of resilience under its original etymology or measure of ability. (Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), 2019.)

How does it assess a person’s ability to cope and bounce back?

The Brief-Resilience Scale intends to measure one’s ability to bounce back or recover from stress. According to Smith et al. (2008), these notions of ‘bouncing back’ and recovering from stress are closest to the original meaning of resilience.

Previous measures have typically assessed things like protective factors or resources that involve personal characteristics and coping styles. The brief resilience scale is designed to measure and evaluate resilience in terms of how quickly one adapts to stress, bounces back, resists illness, and thrives in the face of adversity.

Being able to measure how someone bounces back from stress provides valuable insight when it comes to helping a person cope with health-related stressors (Smith et al., 2008)

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