Simply stated, Resilience is the ability to negotiate and successfully cope with risks, challenges, and/or disadvantages. This includes having feelings of confidence and self-efficacy, being able to approach challenges in a positive manner and developing positive relationships with others.
The AGRS measures several components of girls' resilience. This includes:
*It is important to note the AGRS does not measure personal characteristics that are likely more resistant to change such as attributional style, emotional stability, or broader aspects of one's life--such as characteristics of the family environment or larger community.
The AGRS measures several components of girls' resilience. This includes:
- Approach to Challenge: the degree to which girls view challenge positively; respond positively to stressful situations; feel brave and courageous; show persistence, and are flexible when problem solving.
- Self-Efficacy: the degree to which girls believe that they are capable and believe they have the ability and motivation to complete tasks and reach goals.
- Relationship Building: the degree to which girl’s form positive relationships with others, successfully negotiating conflicts in relationships, and feel comfortable with and supported by other girls.
- Confidence: represents an adaptive approach to challenge and sense of self-efficacy.
- Positive Peer Relationships: includes interactions with peers and how one interacts with or feels about their peers.
*It is important to note the AGRS does not measure personal characteristics that are likely more resistant to change such as attributional style, emotional stability, or broader aspects of one's life--such as characteristics of the family environment or larger community.
The main goal of the AGRS is to measure change in the potential for resilience among adolescent girls (ages 10-18) as a result of participating in a broad range of programs designed to promote resilience among girls, such as adventure programming or camp experiences. The AGRS was tested over three years with a total of approximately 1500 girls from various organizations.
The AGRS provides the following:
The AGRS provides the following:
- measures individual characteristics among adolescent girls that are most amenable to change after relatively short term interventions;
- has known psychometric properties (i.e., is reliable and valid);
- can be used by different and diverse camps/programs;
- offers subscales and factor scales that can be used independently of the larger scale (approach to challenge, self-efficacy, relationship building with other girls, confidence and positive peer relatinoships; and
- is free and readily available for use.
The items of the AGRS are written as statements, such as “I live up to my potential” and then rate the degree to which they agree with each statement using a 5-point rating scaled labeled with the following anchors: 1 = Strongly Disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neither, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly Agree.
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Interested in implementing the scale and would like receive a copy of the manual, an excel scoring spreadsheet, tips for data entry and analysis? Please see our contact page.