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Assessing Personal Resiliency in Young Adults: The Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents

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Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

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The Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents were developed to tap core underlying characteristics of personal resiliency in children and adolescents (RSCA; Prince-Embury, 2007). The theoretical and conceptual model underlying the original RSCA has been comprehensively described in Chap. 3 of this volume along with a summary of reliability and validity evidence accumulated thus far (Prince-Embury, 2012). Briefly, the original RSCA is a 64-item self-report questionnaire in which responses are given on a 5-point Likert rating scale. This chapter discusses the psychometric properties of two more recent versions of the RSCA that have been altered slightly for use with adults. RSCA-A is essentially the same as the RSCA with only two items altered to be more appropriate for adults. The RSCA-A-R includes eight additional items; four items were added to the Adaptability subscale and a four-item Meaning subscale was included. As with the original RSCA, items are divided into three global scales that are labeled Sense of Mastery, Sense of Relatedness, and Emotional Reactivity (Prince-Embury, 2007).

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  1. Department of Psychology, Social Science Centre, The University of Western Ontario, 7th Floor, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2

    Donald H. Saklofske Ph.D. & Ashley Vesely

  2. School and Applied Psychology Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    David W. Nordstokke Ph.D.

  3. Resiliency Institute of Allenhurst, LLC., 625 North Edgemere Drive, W. Allenhurst, NJ, 07711, USA

    Sandra Prince-Embury Ph.D.

  4. Strengths in ADHD, Education Tower, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Tara Crumpler

  5. Foothills Academy, 745—37th Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4T1

    Sarah Nugent

  6. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Yvonne Hindes Ph.D.

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    Donald H. Saklofske

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Saklofske, D.H. et al. (2013). Assessing Personal Resiliency in Young Adults: The Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents. In: Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D. (eds) Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4939-3_14

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