Resilience Measure in adolescents and adults

Abstract

This article has as aims, in first place to check some theoretical foundations to evaluate the resiliencia and some instruments used for its measurement; in second place, to examine the Resilience Scale of Wagnild & Young, its foundations, as well as its national and international psychometric properties, that award it to be a valid alternative to measure the resilience in teenagers and adults. And in third place, to offer an appraisal of the implications that carries the measurement of the resiliencia nowadays.