title: Development of a multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents: the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The concept of resilience has captured the imagination of researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However, despite the ever growing body of resilience research, there is a paucity of relevant, comprehensive measurement tools. In this article, the development of a theoretically based, comprehensive multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents is described.
  
  
  METHODS
  Extensive literature review and focus groups with young people living with chronic illness informed the conceptual development of scales and items. Two sequential rounds of factor and scale analyses were undertaken to revise the conceptually developed scales using data collected from young people living with a chronic illness and a general population sample.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The revised Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire comprises 93 items and 12 scales measuring resilience factors in the domains of self, family, peer, school and community. All scales have acceptable alpha coefficients. Revised scales closely reflect conceptually developed scales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is proposed that, with further psychometric testing, this new measure of resilience will provide researchers and clinicians with a comprehensive and developmentally appropriate instrument to measure a young person's capacity to achieve positive outcomes despite life stressors.
authors.affiliation: Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. deirdre.gartland@mcri.edu.au
authors.forename: Deirdre
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gartland
authors.forename: Lyndal
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.forename: Craig A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buzwell
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Sawyer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014739:Victoria; D055815:Young Adult