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Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) Test

Understand a young person’s resilience and support system in about 6 minutes. Get clear, practical insight into strengths and gaps across personal coping, family support, and social connections.

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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Psychologist with 25 years of experience

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How the Scales are Structured

example score

3/5

Culture (C)

Assesses connections with others and attitudes toward national origin, traditions, and the country as a resilience-related resource.

Low

Moderate

High

1 – 2.9: Low | 3 – 3.9: Moderate | 4 – 5: High

A score of 3 indicates a moderate cultural resource, suggesting generally stable but not consistently strong support from cultural identity, traditions, and related relationships.

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4/5

Education (E)

Assesses attitudes toward education and engagement with learning and the professional community.

Low engagement

Moderate engagement

High engagement

1 – 2: Low engagement | 3: Moderate engagement | 4 – 5: High engagement

A score of 4 indicates high educational engagement, suggesting a generally positive attitude toward learning and active connection to school or professional community supports.

example score

3/5

Spirituality (S)

Measures how important religion or belief in higher powers is as a source of vitality and support.

Low

Moderate

High

1 – 2.4: Low | 2.5 – 3.4: Moderate | 3.5 – 5: High

A score of 3 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting spirituality may provide some support and meaning, but it is not a primary source of vitality in all situations.

example score

3/5

Context (C)

Assesses access to and use of community, educational, and cultural resources that support resilience in the young person’s environment.

Limited resources

Adequate resources

Strong resources

1 – 2.9: Limited resources | 3 – 3.9: Adequate resources | 4 – 5: Strong resources

A score of 3 indicates an adequate level of contextual support, suggesting some reliable community, educational, or cultural resources are present, with room to strengthen them further.

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2/5

Psychological Care (PC)

Assesses how much psychological support and understanding the respondent feels they receive from their family.

Low support

Moderate support

High support

1 – 2.9: Low support | 3 – 3.9: Moderate support | 4 – 5: High support

A score of 2 suggests the respondent perceives relatively low psychological support from their family at this time.

example score

2/5

Physical Care (PC)

Assesses how much physical care and practical support from family the respondent feels they receive.

Low

Moderate

High

1 – 2.3: Low | 2.4 – 3.6: Moderate | 3.7 – 5: High

A score of 2 falls in the Low range, suggesting the respondent perceives relatively limited physical care and practical support from their family.

example score

3/5

Family Support (FS)

Assesses perceived physical and psychological support from family as a resilience resource.

Low support

Moderate support

High support

1 – 2.9: Low support | 3 – 3.9: Moderate support | 4 – 5: High support

A score of 3 indicates moderate family support, suggesting some reliable help is available while additional consistency or involvement may be beneficial.

example score

4/5

Individual-Social Skills (ISS)

Assesses practical social-behavioral skills such as taking responsibility, seeking help, and applying effective coping behaviors in everyday situations.

Needs support

Developing

Well-developed

1 – 2.9: Needs support | 3 – 3.9: Developing | 4 – 5: Well-developed

A score of 4 indicates well-developed social and behavioral skills, with a tendency to take responsibility, seek help when needed, and use these skills consistently in daily life.

example score

3/5

Individual Support (IS)

Measures how much support the youth feels they receive from friends and other close people.

Low support

Moderate support

High support

1 – 2.4: Low support | 2.5 – 3.5: Moderate support | 3.6 – 5: High support

A score of 3 suggests a moderate, generally available sense of support from friends and close ones, with some room to strengthen reliability or breadth of support.

example score

3/5

Personal Skills (PS)

Assesses problem-solving, cooperation, perseverance, self-attitude, and awareness of personal strengths.

Needs support

Developing

Strong

1 – 2.4: Needs support | 2.5 – 3.6: Developing | 3.7 – 5: Strong

A score of 3 suggests developing individual skills, with some effective coping strategies present alongside areas that may benefit from further strengthening.

example score

3/5

Individual Characteristics (IC)

Assesses personal resilience resources such as problem-solving, persistence, self-attitude, and awareness of one’s strengths.

Low resources

Moderate resources

High resources

1 – 2.9: Low resources | 3 – 3.9: Moderate resources | 4 – 5: High resources

A score of 3 indicates moderate individual resilience resources, suggesting generally adequate coping skills with some areas that could be strengthened.

example score

3/5

Overall Resilience (OR)

Overall vitality reflects the general level of internal and external resources that support coping and adaptation in everyday challenges.

Low vitality

Moderate vitality

High vitality

1 – 2.9: Low vitality | 3 – 3.9: Moderate vitality | 4 – 5: High vitality

A score of 3 indicates a moderate level of overall resources, suggesting some reliable supports for coping with difficulties alongside areas that may benefit from strengthening.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

School counselors and psychologists

41%OF USERS

They use it to quickly understand a student’s coping resources and where support is needed at school and at home.

Parents of teens

34%OF USERS

They want a clearer picture of how their child handles stress and which family and social supports are helping or missing.

Social workers and case managers

25%OF USERS

They apply it to assess resilience factors in vulnerable youth and to track progress in support or prevention programs.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Culture (C)

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2.8

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2.1 — 3.5

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Education (E)

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3.1

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2.5 — 3.7

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Spirituality (S)

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2.1

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1.4 — 2.7

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Context (C)

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2.2

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1.6 — 2.8

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Psychological Care (PC)

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2.7

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2.1 — 3.3

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Physical care (Pc)

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3.5

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2.9 — 4.1

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Family Support (FS)

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2.1

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1.4 — 2.8

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Ind.-social skills (Is)

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2.7

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2 — 3.3

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Individual Support (IS)

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2.8

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2.1 — 3.5

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Individual Skills (IS)

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2.8

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2.1 — 3.5

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Individual Characteristics (IC)

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3.7

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3.2 — 4.1

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Overall vitality (Ov)

Average

3.9

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3.2 — 4.6

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Below are questions about you, your family, and your relationships with other people. For each question, select the response option that most accurately reflects your opinion.

- Not at all
- A little
- Somewhat
- Quite a bit
- A great deal
- Not at all
- A little
- To some extent
- To a significant extent
- To a very great extent
- Not at all
- A little
- To some extent
- To a great extent
- To a very great extent

These are 3 of the 28 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) Test - Symptoms and Signs

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This measure is used to assess resilience-related resources and supports in children, adolescents, and young adults. The Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) is typically administered as a self-report questionnaire to characterize perceived strengths across individual, family, and broader social contexts.

The instrument includes 28 items and generally takes about 6 minutes to complete. It is commonly used in clinical, school, and community settings to inform case formulation, identify areas of relative strength and need, and support monitoring of change over time.

Developed by Linda Liebenberg and Michael Ungar, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) is intended to be interpreted within the individual’s cultural and environmental context and alongside other clinical information rather than as a stand-alone diagnostic tool.

Author: Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar

Literature: Masten, A. S. Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development. American Psychologist. 2001.; Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. Assessing resilience across cultures using mixed methods: Construction of the child and youth resilience measure. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. 2011.; Resilience Research Centre. Adult resilience measure (RRC-ARM) user’s manual. Dalhousie University. 2013.