About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Resilience and coping, Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | Family relationships; Friend relationships; Teacher relationships; Community Relationships; Role model relationships; Love relationships; Community safety; Family financial security; Social activities; Interdependent problem solving; Self-efficacy; Resourcefulness; Team work; Empathy; Positive learning experience; High self-expectations; Bouncebackability; Optimism; Self-esteem; Distress tolerance; Spirituality |
Description | The Youth Ecological-Resilience Scale (YERS) is a multidimensional, summated rating scale that measures youth resilience within an ecological framework. |
Example | On the whole, I am satisfied with myself |
Link | Contact author at avanbreda@uj.ac.za |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 145 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 14-21 |
Cost single purchase | Available from a |
Cost per child | Available from a |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .71-.91 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | Not reported |
CFA | Not reported |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support r= .59; Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, r= .58 |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Van Breda, A. D. (2016). The Youth Ecological-Resilience Scale: A Partial Validation. Research on Social Work Practice. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/1049731516651731 |