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Repository of Resilience Measures

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Reviewed:: Nov 6, 2021 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness within the Harvard T.H. Chan Center in the School of Public Health has compiled a list of scales of measurement and publications related to resilience; the scales, surveys and publications provide details, e.g., content, number of items, etc. This is a repository of resilience measurement tools. For the resource to be useful, the user needs knowledge of the concept of resilience and would need a target population to study. Multiple tools are included in the repository, many are listed as commonly used measurements. As the resource includes an academic review of measurement tools, this makes this resource of real value for the scholar or researcher who is working with resilience.

Type of Material:

A list of measurement scales and survey tools along with publications on resilience as a repository for ease in use.
Note: The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness cannot grant permission to utilize proprietary scales; it is recommended to contact the author.

Recommended Uses:

Course content material for teaching – learning activity
Research class homework or supplemental resources
An assignment on evaluating resilience; research on resilience

Technical Requirements:

Internet access
Accessed via Google Chrome and Edge without difficuluty. No specific software or plug-in required.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

After completion of this resource, the user will:

Describe the functional features of resilience.
Identify and describe tools appropriate for measuring resilience.
Able to select and apply tools for research in evaluating resilience.

Target Student Population:

College Lower Division
College Upper Division
Graduate School
Professional

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Pre-knowledge on resilience and why someone would want to measure resilience.
Basic understanding of research process and measurement tools.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

Comprehensive list of tools measuring resilience
A large repository of resilience measurements for anyone research resilience. A strength is the list of academic papers on resilience measures.
Content is highly relevent to functional indicators and scales of measurement
Scales and survey tools contain appropriate description as to what is measured, number of items, author information, etc.

Concerns:

While this is called a repository of resilience measures, it would have helped the reviewer to have more of an introductory statement at the beginning of the page. Also, there are summaries of the measurement tools, but accessing the tools is vague. For a novice, this would be difficult.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The content is easy to use and the description provides concise yet adequate information, promoting understanding.
The resource can be used in a variety of ways for teaching and learning as well as in research.

Concerns:

In advance learner levels, added guidance and background in research methodology probably would need to be provided. Nearly all measurement tools require permission from authors, which may or may not require funds.
Accompanying objectives will be helpful.
It would be helpful if this article explained pre-requisite knowledge.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

All links to the summaries work well. Summaries help the reader to know what the tool would be used for. This can be very helpful.
The site content and instructions are clear, organized and easy to navigate. All links appeared to be in working order.

Concerns:

All links to summaries work well. However, there is no link to the tool itself. It would have been helpful to identify the academic review papers to the tools somehow.

Other Issues and Comments:

For the student, faculty, or other user who wants to measure resilience, this tool could be very helpful. However, as a general teaching aid, it’s use is limited. There are no objectives or learning goals for it’s use.

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