Estudo dos instrumentos que avaliam a resiliência

Abstract

Resilience can be defined as one’s adaptation and overcoming when coming across adversities or risky situations. It is a capacity which isn’t necessarily inherent and could be developed throughout life. Identifying someone’s resilience or a certain population’s resilience becomes essential in order to elaborate instrumentation mechanisms to promote and maintain mental health. The instruments developed to measure the resilience level could examine strategies in promoting people’s health whenever they are exposed to stressful factors in life. The objective of this study was being able to identify research instruments that were developed as a way of measuring resilience levels in different scenarios. It is a scientometrics study which took place in the data base of PubMed (MEDLINE). From the criteria of predefined selection, 29 studies were identified and they all developed primary scale for the evaluation of resilience. The countries with the biggest number of resilience instruments were the United States of America (9) and China (4). Most instruments were developed between 2015 and 2020. The topics related to the resilience scales were the following: family (n = 2), academic (n = 2), disasters (n = 2), general (n = 3), work (n = 4), life cycle (n = 6) and others (n = 7).