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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1467174

Validation of the Slovenian versions of Child and Youth Resilience Measure-12 and Brief Resilience Scale among youth

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Urška Smrke Urška Smrke 1*Ana Rehberger Ana Rehberger 1Sara Močnik Sara Močnik 1,2Tanja Špes Tanja Špes 3Izidor Mlakar Izidor Mlakar 1Nejc Plohl Nejc Plohl 3
  • 1 Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • 2 Unit for Paediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry, Devision of Paediatrics, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • 3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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    Resilience is the ability to adapt positively in the face of adversity, trauma, or significant stress and is a vital component of maintaining mental health and well-being. It is particularly shaped in young adulthood by navigating unique stressors, such as changes in living arrangements, relationships, and education. However, much of the existing research focuses on children or older adults, leaving a gap in our knowledge regarding resilience in young adulthood. Moreover, the existing resilience scales are seldom validated outside of English-speaking contexts. With this paper, we turn attention to validating two resilience measures, Child and Youth Resilience Measure-12 (CYRM-12) and Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), in Slovenian language, using a sample of young adults.We administered a survey among 330 young individuals (18 -24 years) from Slovenia. Next to the central questionnaires, we also measured resilience with another scale, along with coping strategies, anxiety, depression, and quality of life.Results: For both resilience scales, one-factor structures fitted the data well and both scales demonstrated good internal consistency. CYRM-12 and BRS showed positive associations with another resilience scale and adaptive coping strategies, negative associations with anxiety, depression, and maladaptive coping strategies, and a unique contribution to predicting quality of life (with CYRM-12 demonstrating somewhat greater predictive value for quality of life than BRS), pointing to good convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity, respectively. Discussion: The results of our study suggest that CYRM-12 and BRS are both sufficiently reliable and valid for use among Slovenian young adults, with slightly stronger evidence supporting the validity of CYRM-12 compared to BRS.

    Keywords: resilience, Validation, young adults, CYRM-12, BRS

    Received: 19 Jul 2024; Accepted: 04 Feb 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Smrke, Rehberger, Močnik, Špes, Mlakar and Plohl. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Urška Smrke, Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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