Methods for Measuring the Resilience of Adults

Abstract

Resilience is defined in many ways and is seen as a process and a personality trait. Understanding and evaluating resilience is important so that people with low levels of this indicator can be identified, followed by adequate interventions to help them overcome the problems usually associated with aging. This article is an overview of methods for measuring the resilience of adults. Currently, many scales lack convincing evidence for their use, largely due to the lack of scientific research, their further validation is required, however, there are several well-founded and widely used scales that are also suitable, in our opinion, for the multicultural Russian context, these include: the Resilience Scale, The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Resilience Scale for Adults, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure, which is also suitable for adults. These scales better take into account the diversity of Russian communities in terms of rural-urban variation, cultural differences, socio-economic differences, and the diversity of problems that individuals and their communities face